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Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District), Inyo Co., California, USA

Mcallisterite
Furnace Creek District, Inyo Co., California, USA

Photo: Knut Eldjarn
Latitude: 36°22'20"N
Longitude: 116°46'0"W
A borate mining area.

References

Foshag, William Frederick (1924a), Famous mineral localities: Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California: American Mineralogist: 9: 8-10.

Foshag, William Frederick (1924b), Priceite from Furnace Creek, Inyo County, California: American Mineralogist: 9: 11-13.

Foshag, William Frederick (1931b), Probertite from Ryan, California: American Mineralogist: 16: 338-341.

Foshag, William Frederick (1939), New Mineral names – priceite: American Mineralogist: 24: 728.

Funk, B.G. (1942) Borates and associated minerals from Mount Blanco, Death Valley, California. Mineralogist: 10: 267-268, 285-289.

Barnes, William H. (1949), The unit cell and space group of probertite: American Mineralogist: 34: 19-25.

Vonsen, Magnus (1951), Borates of California: Rocks & Minerals: 26: 494-503.

Kramer, Henry C. & Robert D. Allen (1956), A restudy of bakerite, priceite, and veatchite: American Mineralogist: 41: 690.

Allen, Robert D. & Henry C. Kramer (1957), Ginorite and sassolite from Death Valley, California, American Mineralogist: 42: 200, 201.

McAllister, James Franklin (1958) Borate minerals from weathering of late Tertiary borates in the Furnace Creek district, Death Valley, California. (abstract) Geological Society of America Bulletin: 69: 1695.

Clark, Joan R. & C.L. Christ (1959), Studies of borate minerals, V: Reinvestigation of the X-ray crystallography of ulexite and probertite: American Mineralogist: 44: 712-719.

Erd, R.C., J.F. McAllister & H. Almond (1959), Gowerite, a new hydrous calcium borate from Death Valley, California: American Mineralogist: 44: 912.

Christ, C.L. & J.R. Clark (1960), X-ray crystallography and crystal chemistry of gowerite, CaO-3B2O3-5H2O: American Mineralogist: 45: 230-234.

Erd, R.C., V. Morgan & J.R. Clark (1961), Tunellite, a new hydrous strontium borate from the Kramer borate district, California: USGS PP 424-C, article No. 255: C294-C297.

McAllister, James Franklin (1961), Sborgite in the Furnace Creek area, California: USGS PP 424-B, Article 129: B299-B301.

Rumanova, I.M., Kurbanova, K.M., and Belov, N.V. (1966) Determination of the crystal structure of probertite CaNa[B5O7(OH)4]. Soviet Physics-Crystallography: 10: 513-522.

Erd, R.C., J.F. McAllister, and A.C. Vlisidis (1970) Wardsmithite 5CaO • MgO •12B2O3 •30H2O, a new borate mineral from the Death Valley region, California. American Mineralogist: 55: 349-357.

McAllister, James Franklin (1970) Geology of the Furnace Creek borate area, Death Valley, Inyo County, California. California Division of Mines and Geology Map Sheet 14, 9 pp.: 8, 9.

Konnert, J.A., Clark, J.R., and Christ, C.L. (1972) Gowerite, CaB5O8(OH) •B(OH)3•3H2O: crystal structure and comparison with related borates. American Mineralogist: 57: 381-396.

Erd, R.C., J.F. McAllister & H. Almond (1959), Gowerite, a new hydrous calcium borate from Death Valley, California: American Mineralogist: 44: 912; Christ, C.L. & J.R. Clark (1960), X-ray crystallography and crystal chemistry of gowerite, CaO-3B2O3-5H2O: American Mineralogist: 45: 230-234; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 252.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Analcime
Borax
Calcite
Carboborite
Celestine
Colemanite (TL)
Gypsum
Hydroboracite
Inyoite
Nobleite
Priceite
Probertite
Sassolite
Sborgite
Stilpnomelane ?
Tincalconite
Ulexite


20 entries listed. 17 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

Localities in this Region

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