Cargo Muchacho Mountains

Name:	American Girl Kyanite Mine
Date:	9/3/2006
Location:	Cargo Muchacho Mountains

Near the Colorado River, The town of Ogilby, a once thriving mining community is host city to a vast mining area the Cargo Muchacho Mountains. The mining in this area, though still heavily marked with mine claim markers has mostly been abandoned.
An old feeder used for mining of kyanite, long since abandoned, as more profitable kyanite mines were discovered in other parts of the country. Kyanite was the principal mineral of interest here as it was a commodity for the ceramics industry. One use of the ceramics was in the auto industry as insulative material for sparkplugs. The kyanite is abundant here, and is easily recognized as its blue crystals contrast with the surrounding white metamorphic rocks.

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