A former borax mine located in Tick Canyon, off Mint Canyon, about 12 miles North of Saugus.
Mineralization is hosted in limestone and shale.
Local structures include NE-trending folds modified by cross faults and longitudinal faults: interbedded nature of volcanics and sediments (competent & incompetent) contribute to the structural complexity in the area.
Related tectonic structures include the basin and range province.
Production data are found in: Gaye and Hoffman (1954).
References
Eakle, Arthur Starr (1911), Neocolemanite, a variety of colemanite, and howlite from Lang, Los Angeles County, California: University of California, Department of Geological Science Bulletin: 6: 179-189; […(abstract): Geological Society of America Bulletin: 23: 70 (1912)]: 179, 187.
Hutchinson, A. (1912), On the identity of neocolemanite with colemanite: Mineralogical Magazine: 16: 239-246.
Foshag, William Frederick (1918), Ulexite from Lang, California: American Mineralogist: 3: 35.
Merrill, Frederick James Hamilton (1919), Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside Counties: California Mining Bureau Report 15: 480.
Foshag, William Frederick (1921), The origin of the colemanite deposits of California: Economic Geology: 16: 199-214.
Rocks & Minerals (1936): 11: 156.
Switzer, George S. (1938), Veatchite, a new calcium borate from Lang, California: American Mineralogist: 23: 409-411.
Murdoch, Joseph (1939a), Crystallography of veatchite: American Mineralogist: 24: 130-135.
Murdoch, Joseph (1945), Probertite from Los Angeles County, California: American Mineralogist: 30: 719-721.
Armstrong, V.L. & Edwin V. Van Anringe (1948), Tick Canyon field trip: reprinted from Grieger’s “Encyclopedia and Super-Catalog of the Lapidary and Jewelry Arts,” Pasadena.
Switzer, George S. & W.W. Brannock (1950), Composition of veatchite: American Mineralogist: 35: 90-92.
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: 349.
Gay, T.E. and Hoffman, S.R. (1954) Mines and mineral deposits of Los Angeles County, California. California Journal of Mines and Geology: 50: 506-508.
Kramer, H.C. & R.D. Allen (1956), A restudy of bakerite, priceite, and veatchite, American Mineralogist: 41: 689-700.
Allen, Robert D. (1957): 199.
Oakeshott, Gordon Blaisdell (1958) Geology and mineral deposits of San Fernando quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California. California Division of Mines Bulletin 172, 147 pp.: 11-12.
Clark, Joan R. & M.E. Mrose (1960), Veatchite and p-veatchite: American Mineralogist: 45: 1221-1229.
Murdoch, Joseph (1962), Bakerite crystals: American Mineralogist: 47: 919-923.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 71, 95, 122, 154, 220, 284, 295, 319, 354, 380.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1968) The minerals of the Sterling borax mine, Los Angeles County, California. Mineral Explorer 3, No. 1, 10 pp.
Finney, J.J., Kumbasar, I., Konnert, J.A., and Clark, J.R. (1970) Crystal structure of the calcium silicoborate howlite. American Mineralogist: 55: 716-728.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 132, 217, 250, 255, 258, 288, 509, 510.
Smith, George Irving (1985) Borate deposits in the United States: Dissimilar in form, similar in geologic setting, in Barker, J.M., and LeFond, S.J., 1985, Borates: Economic Geology and Production; Proceedings of a symposium held on October 24, 1984, at the fall meeting of SME-AIME in Denver, Colorado: New York, Society of Mining Engineers of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc: 38-51.
Tschernich, R. (1992): Zeolites of the World, 64.
Bernard J.H. and Hyrsl J. (2004) Minerals and their Localities.
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