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Calico Mts (Calico Hills), San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Latitude: 34°58'25"N
Longitude: 116°50'33"W

References

Hanks, Henry Garber (1884), Fourth report of the State Mineralogist: California Mining Bureau. Report 4, 410 pp. (includes catalog of minerals of California pp. 63-410), and miscellaneous observations on mineral products): 97.

Bailey, Gilbert E. (1902), The saline deposits of California: California Mining Bureau Bulletin 24: 58.

Giles, W.B. (1903), Bakerite (a new borosilicate of calcium) and howlite from California: Mineralogical Magazine: 13: 353-355.

Foshag, William Frederick (1922), Calico Hills, San Bernardino County, California: American Mineralogist: 7: 208-209.

Foshag, William Frederick (1931c), Krausite, a new sulphate from California: American Mineralogist: 16: 352-360.

Erwin, H.D. & D.L. Gardner (1940), Notes on the geology of a portion of the Calico Mountains, San Bernardino County, California: California Division Mines Report 36: 293-304, 320.

Henry, D.J. (1946), The California Calico Mountains: The Mineralogist: 14: 231.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 616.

Palmer, Allison Ralph (1957), Miocene arthropods from the Mohave Desert, California: USGS PP 294-G: 241.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 71, 99, 156, 166, 186, 211, 324.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 287, 510.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Acanthite
Alum-(K)
Alunite
Analcime
Anglesite
Anhydrite
Asbolane
Azurite
Bakerite
Baryte
Bassanite
'Bentonite'
Borax
Bornite
Botryogen
Bromargyrite
Calciocopiapite ?
Calcite
Celestine
Cerussite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chlorargyrite
var: Bromian Chlorargyrite
Chrysocolla
Colemanite
Copiapite
Coquimbite
Cummingtonite
Datolite
Epidote
Fibroferrite
Galena
Gypsum
Gypsum
var: Satin Spar Gypsum

Halotrichite
Hemimorphite
Howlite
Jarosite
Krausite (TL)
Magnetite
Malachite
Marcasite
Melanterite
Metavoltine
Nitratine
Priceite
Pyrargyrite
Pyrolusite
Quartz
Quenstedtite
Realgar
Römerite
Silver
Smithsonite
Sphalerite
Stibnite
Stromeyerite
Strontianite
Sulphur
Tetrahedrite
Ulexite
Voltaite
'Wad
var: Cobaltian Wad'

Wulfenite


68 entries listed. 61 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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