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Tick Canyon howlite, Agua Dulce

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: howlite nodules, colemanite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Old Sterling Borax workings where howlite nodules weather from lakebed sediments

Type-area howlite locality cited in southern California collecting guides.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

old shafts, rattlesnakes

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