Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA

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Bakerite : Ca₄B₄[(OH)₄\|HBO₄\|(SiO₄)₃]
	Corkscrew Mine, Corkscrew Canyon, Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA A 4.0 by 3.4 cms mass of Bakerite. Not very showy but an uncommon mineral and from the type locality. John Sobolewski specimen and photograph.
© John Sobolewski	Photo ID: 43205 View Count: 598
Bakerite : Ca₄B₄[(OH)₄\|HBO₄\|(SiO₄)₃]
	Furnace Creek Wash, Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA Width of field is 3.2 mm. Collection of Jesse Crawford. The depth of field has been enhanced using Helicon Focus (9 exposures). Equipment: Nikon D-100 on a homemade microscope.
© 2008 Jesse Crawford	Photo ID: 174399 View Count: 69
Bakerite : Ca₄B₄[(OH)₄\|HBO₄\|(SiO₄)₃]
	Nobleite locality, De Bely Mine area, De Bely Mine (Debely Mine), Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA Here is a 7.5x13 cm piece of massive bakerite in the Creekmur collection.
© Charles Creekmur	Photo ID: 240074 View Count: 25
Celestine : SrSO₄
	Billie Mine, Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA Lustrous white complex crystal of celestine with no point of attachment (a floater). The crystal has several parallel faces and may be three separate crystals intergrown. No damage. Ex. A. Stevenson collection #800. Overall size of mineral specimen: 20x18x15 mm. Size of individual crystals: 18 mm.
© 2001 John H. Betts	Photo ID: 1171 View Count: 495
Colemanite : Ca[B₃O₄(OH)₃] · H₂O
	Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA A chunky cluster of Colemanite crystals from the type locality for this species. Good examples of Colemanite from this now defunct location are extremely hard to find these days. The crystal faces of this specimen are intact and have a nice luster. Personally, I like these chunky Colemanite specimens a lot better than the thin spear shaped ...
© Russell G. Rizzo	Photo ID: 157748 View Count: 96
Colemanite : Ca[B₃O₄(OH)₃] · H₂O, Meyerhofferite : Ca₂(H₃B₃O₇)₂ · 4H₂O, Inyoite : Ca(H₄B₃O₇)(OH) · 4H₂O
	Corkscrew Mine, Corkscrew Canyon, Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA 7.2 x 5.0 x 4.2 cm. A large, superb, double pseudomorph borate crystal from the famous Death Valley of California. This sharp, lustrous and sugary crystal is colemanite pseudomorphing meyerhofferite, which itself was pseudomorphing an original large inyoite crystal. It hails from the Corkscrew Mine in Corkscrew Canyon. Very highly representative ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 180775 View Count: 84
Colemanite : Ca[B₃O₄(OH)₃] · H₂O
	Mount Blanco Mine (Mount Blanco deposit; Mount Blanco adit), Mount Blanco, Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA Meyerhofferite pseudomorph after Inyoite on Colemanite. R. Currier collection. The scale at the bottom of the image is an inch.
	Photo ID: 236311 View Count: 66
Colemanite : Ca[B₃O₄(OH)₃] · H₂O
	Gower Gulch Mine, Gower Gulch, Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA Colemanite, Specimen is from the Brush collection #4516-3 at Yale University at New Haven Connecticut, USA. The scale at the bottom of the image is an inch with a rule at one cm. The label simply said Gower Gulch. There are a number of prospects in the gulch and any one of them could possibly be called a mine. The specimen was probably found ...
	Photo ID: 236326 View Count: 57
Colemanite : Ca[B₃O₄(OH)₃] · H₂O
	Corkscrew Mine, Corkscrew Canyon, Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA 18.7 x 13.0 x 6.0 cm. A striking, large cabinet colemanite "cross" from the Corkscrew Mine of Death Valley and the Mullane Collection. This unbelievable specimen is a doubly terminated, floater. Glassy, tan to colorless colemanite crystals comprise this piece.
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 217388 View Count: 47
Colemanite : Ca[B₃O₄(OH)₃] · H₂O
	Furnace Creek District, Black Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA Colemanite crystal cluster with just a tiny bit of spiky Celestine from one of the many little prospect tunnels that are in this district. R. Currier collection. The scale at the bottom of the image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
	Photo ID: 236322 View Count: 41