S.R. MOON 1987 Journal 29 21 April Vulcan Mine, Providence Mountains, San Bernadino co., CA. 1630 PST. Bruce and I drove up to Vulcan Mine and looked around the pit mine and pond at the pit's bottom. I found some small rocks with tiny cubic pyrite crystals in it. Next we drove to the road that connects the pipeline road with the powerline road and parked at the bottom of the connecting road. We carried some buckets and shovels up to Goldstone Spring, where we put in five pitfall traps (three at the the spring itself and two under a desert almond bush above the dripping pipe). We found a large grey, pink tailed speckled rattlesnake under the almond bush below the dripping pipe (Species account: Speckled Rattlesnake). Goldstone Spring is at the southwest edge of a large, flat, cattle-stomped area. The surrounding hillsides are rocky & steep, with a few live Piner Pines; most of the area is relatively barren with signs of a past fire. The spring itself consists of water dripping from a pipe into a half- barrel and then flowing a few meters down into some large desert almond bushes; the water then dries up just below the bushes.