Pacific Mine (Borate; Borate Colemanite Mines; Calico; Old Borate), Borate, Calico District (Daggett District), Calico Mts (Calico Hills), San Bernardino Co., California, USA

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A former Borate-Gypsum-Sr mine.

Mineralization is hosted in the Fisset Brook Formation (lake sediments, shale, limestone).

Local structures include numerous faults. Sediments are severely folded.

References

Campbell, M.R. (1902) Reconnaissance of the Borax Deposits of Death Valley and Mohave Desert: USGS Bull. 200, 23 p.

Yale, C.G. (1904) Borax, in: Mineral Resources of the US - 1903: Washington, D.C., U.S. Geological Survey: 1017-1028.

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: 418.

Ver Planck, W.E. (1956) History of Borax Production in the United States: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 52(3): 273-191.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 220.

Piper, J.R. (1985) Borate deposits of the Calico-Daggett area, California: in Barker, J.M., and Lefond, S.J., eds., Borates: Economic Geology and Production: New York, Society of Mining Engineers of the A.I.M.E., Inc.: 147-155.

Lyday, P.A. (1992) History of Boron Production and Processing: Industrial Minerals, No. 303: 19-37.

Rapp, J.S. and Vredenburgh, L.M. (1992) Industrial Mineral Resource Potential of Tertiary Playa Deposits of the Fort Irwin area, San Bernardino County, California: Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Preprint Number 92-44, 9 p.

Mineral List

Asbolane Bassanite

Calcite Celestine

Colemanite Gypsum

Howlite Ulexite

8 entries listed. 8 valid minerals.