A former borate deposit and mining town about 6 miles NW of Yermo. The deposits here were discovered in the spring of 1883.
References
Jackson, Abraham Wendell, Jr. (1884), On colemanite, a new borate of lime: American Journal of Science, 3rd. series: 28: 447-448.
Jackson, Abraham Wendell, Jr. (1885), On the morphology of colemanite: Calif. Acad. Sci., 1st. series, Bulletin 2: 3-36.
Jackson, Abraham Wendell, Jr. (1886), Mineralogical contributions: California Academy of Science, 1st. series, Bulletin 4: 358-374; […(abstract): Neues Jahrb., 1888: 179-181]: 358.
Bailey, Gilbert E. (1902), The saline deposits of California: California Mining Bureau Bulletin 24: 56.
Eakle, Arthur Starr (1902), Colemanite from southern California: University of California, Department of Geological Science Bulletin: 3: 31.
Giles, W.B. (1903), Bakerite (a new borosilicate of calcium) and howlite from California: Mineralogical Magazine: 13: 353-355.
Eakle, Arthur Starr (1908), Notes on some California minerals: University of California, Department of Geological Science Bulletin: 5: 230.
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.
Henry, D.J. (1946), The California Calico Mountains: The Mineralogist: 14: 231.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 109, 122, 154, 160, 220, 298, 354, 377, 382.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 217, 290.
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