Latitude: 32°50'39"N
Longitude: 114°48'24"W
A former Au-kyanite-mica mine located in sec. 18 & in the NW¼NW¼ sec. 19, T15S, R21E, SBM, 2.2 km (7,400 feet) SW of Obregon and 3 miles N of the abandoned station of Ogilby on the Southern Pacific Railroad and 10 miles W of Winterhaven, W slope of the Cargo Muchacho Mountains. Additional names for this location: Vitrefrax Corporation property; Vitrefrax Mine; Bluebird Hill Kyanite deposit; Drifted Snow; Foster Bluebird Mine.
Mineralization is a metamorphic deposit hosted in quartzite and schist.
References
Melhase, John (1925), Andalusite in California (Inyo Range): Engineering & Mining Journal: 120: 91-94; […(abstract): Geol. Zentralbl., Band 37: 73 (1928)]: 94.
Tucker, W. Burling (1926), Imperial, Inyo Counties: California Mining Bureau. Report 22: 269, 280.
Sampson, Reid J. & W. Burling Tucker (1931), Feldspar, silica, andalusite, and cyanite deposits of California: California Mining Bureau. Report 27: 455.
Henshaw, P.C. (1942) Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, Imperial County California. California Journal of Mines and Geology: 38: 153-154.
Campbell, Ian & L.A. Wright (1950), Kyanite paragenesis at Ogilby, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin: 61: 1520-1521.
Wright, L.A. (1957) Kyanite Andalusite, and Related Minerals, in Mineral Commodities of California: California Division of Mines Bull. 176: 275-280.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 73, 237, 243, 305, 358.
Clark, Wm. B. (1970a) Gold districts of California: California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 193.
Pemberton, H. Earl and Bideaux, R.A. (1971) An occurrence of svanbergite in California. Mineralogical Record: 2: 225.
Morton, P.K. (1977) Geology and Mineral Resources of Imperial County, California: California Division of Mines and Geology, County Report No. 7: 65-66, 79, 83.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 19 (map 2-8), 169, 292, 305, 310, 326, 416, 425, 450, 452, 495.
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