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Field CollectingNeed Directions for Felix Mine

22nd Apr 2008 23:41 UTCSteve Hardinger 🌟 Expert

I'm looking for directions to the Felix Mine (fluorite locality near Azusa, Los Angeles County, California). My old directions are no longer useful because of the recent construction.

Thanks in advance!

Steve

27th Apr 2008 03:32 UTCAnonymous User

Hey Steve,

You should try contacting Tom Hess. I know he hit a pocket of nice green fluorite up there not too long ago. According to the chatter on the yahoo groups messageboard for LA Rocks, a few other people have done well there recently, producing up to several hundred pounds of material.

Some of the old Rockhounds messageboard stuff on mindat seems to have disappeared recently, but one of Tom's messages with a phone number can be found here: http://www.mindat.org/mesg-5-84711.html

You also might try contacting mindat member Justin Butt, I know he is quite familiar with the locality.

Scott

27th Apr 2008 05:12 UTCJustin Zzyzx Expert

The location is still in the same place.

Gosh Steve, don't you like me? You could just call me and ask!

Umm...the directions are actually posted on MinDat under photos of this location. It hasn't really changed a whole lot. Still have to go up the fire road, which has fallen apart over the last few years.

I thought I brought back a bunch of junk last time, but after I cleaned it up I was really suprised what I found...lots of nice crystals! Oh, plus since the DRH have been moving so much material, there is tons of nice stuff on the dump. The girls had a blast last time!

Plus, I carried out A LOT OF GOD DAMN TRASH last time too, so if you go up there, but a good human and take some of those damn water bottles and garbage out.

Also, the last time I was up there, one of the guys from the new housing development came up to me as I came down, asking me a bunch of questions about all the tools, rope, car battery, etc. and whatnot up there. I tried to calm him down and inform him of the historical significance to the spot. I hope they don't do anything stupid.

27th Apr 2008 06:52 UTCSteve Hardinger 🌟 Expert

Justin,

There is no photo and no directions at http://www.mindat.org/sitegallery.php?loc=11149

27th Apr 2008 08:02 UTCJustin Zzyzx Expert

The photo loads black for some reason, but if you click on it, it actually loads. Fancy that.

2nd May 2008 18:47 UTCthomas carl hess

Hi Guys E-mail me,

I'll take you to the Pocket I found If you like

Warm Regards,

Thomas Hess

5th Jun 2008 02:13 UTCjoe e

the place is taterred via hess

22nd Jun 2008 14:16 UTCjoe e

This local is done, kaput no mas dead only tailings are left to be honest and the deer flies and ticks ate me alive

joe e

23rd Jun 2008 11:34 UTCJustin Zzyzx Expert

Joe e.

Please don't bother with the "Locality dead" posts.

The Felix Fluorite AREA is quite large and hosts several digging areas. Until someone figures out how to build up in the hills, or they close it off from some poor unfortunate soul meeting their ends there, the Felix area is open, if you can get to it.

Those flies and ticks are the pits though! The Mountain Lion tracks and rattlesnakes are something else too! But who doesn't love green fluorite!?!

Another thing. The snide remark about Hess and the DHRH attacking that place. Well, if that place is destined to be lost to progress, shouldn't people be in there getting as much out as possible??? I know that Hess gives most everything he finds away, so what's the problem with them making the most out of the location? I just washed off some junk I collected a few months ago and it turned out pretty sweet. I got two specimens off one collector who had hit a pocket up there...intergrown six sided cubes on Quartz xtl matrix with a slight purple hue. Oh, good stuff. A decade of hard diggings worth of Fluorite still to be had, right now. Go climb to the right area, pound until your fingers blister for 5 or 6 hours and you'll have a nice stash of Fluorite xtls too. Be a lazy bum like me and spend a half hour dump digging and you'll find all sorts of great xtls other people missed. It's a freaking adventure in the backyard of Los Angeles! I love that place.

23rd Jun 2008 11:39 UTCPeter Haas

What's a six sided cube ?!?

23rd Jun 2008 11:58 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

It's the old imperial cube system used in the US. All our european metric cubes have ten sides.

23rd Jun 2008 14:36 UTCjoe e

No ill was meant towards hess, i used taterred as in potatoe, it was a referce to his help finding and discovering vians or expossed like dig potatoes.but the last time I was up there (following some deer tracks which were followed by mointian lion tracks) I noticed most areas werevery dangerous or appeared tapped out. I, like you am on the lazy side and pick a little but mostly screen for oddities. sorry for the ignorance about the area. Oh ya the cops stopped me when i left they told me they dont like getting called up there by construction superintendents and nieghbors they took my name and asked me not to return along with that and all the pain from being eatin alive by bug caused me to lose my mind. I should have stated I was done, dead and kaput with this site.

Joe e

26th Jun 2008 17:38 UTCJustin Zzyzx Expert

Geesh...

Redundancy?

Seriously...Redundancy?

How about my punctuation, spelling and grammer. That stuff it horrible! You should rib me for that too!

18th Sep 2017 18:08 UTCFrances Lemon

Can you hike in if you don't have a 4x4?

18th Sep 2017 20:19 UTCIan Nicastro

The 'Felix Mine' area is not open to collecting anymore, there is no dirt road access to the area after suburban housing tracts went up around the area. The area that the Fluorite is found in is not on the National Forest land, nor is it on BLM land. The two parcels that contain the deposits currently belong to two different non-profit nature conservation groups that are aware of the Fluorite deposits but do not want folks collecting there. Last I checked the local water authority was trying to take over one of the parcels from one of the non profits, but I don't know if that went through. The city of Azusa has gotten increasingly more aggressive at trying to prevent field collecting after the Colby Fire in 2014, citing concerns about erosion as well as from complaints from neighbors about folks trying to sneak around the homes to get up into the hills.

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