Sablon is an

abandoned town A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...

Encyclopædia Brittanica World Atlas 1940 located along Cadiz Road, at the ASTF Parker cutoff. Sablon is part of

San Bernardino County, California San Bernardino County ( ), officially the County of San Bernardino and sometimes abbreviated as S.B. County, is a County (United States), county located in the Southern California, southern portion of the U.S. state of California, and is locat ...

, and is in the Turtle Mountains of the

Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert (; ; ) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Mohave people, it is located pr ...

."Summary Report Sablon"
Geographic Names Information System, Jan 19 1981 Sablon is 3 miles away from Johnsons Well.

History

A station along the Santa Fe line from Cadiz was established in 1909 and was originally called Rudolph. In 1912 it was renamed to Sablon, after the Spanish "sablón" meaning "gravel".

Geology

Sablon Mine is a

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and

silver Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...

prospect in the surrounding desert. Local rocks near the mine include

Precambrian The Precambrian ( ; or pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of t ...

igneous rock Igneous rock ( ), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic. Igneous rocks are formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava. The magma can be derived from partial ...

and

metamorphic rock Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism. The original rock ( protolith) is subjected to temperatures greater than and, often, elevated pressure of or more, caus ...

Climate

Sablon Mine's local region is classified as a hot desert under the

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."Sablon Mine, Johnsons Well, Turtle Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA"
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References

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