TeepleiteBorax Lake, Clear Lake Oaks, Sulphur Creek District, Lake Co., California, USA
Photo: 2008, JGW Latitude: 38°59'18"N
Longitude: 122°40'36"W
A borate-halite deposit located in sec. 7, T13N, R7W, MDM.
This was the first California record of borax (1865) as crystals in lake mud; however, it was found and reported by Dr. John A. Veatch as early as March, 1857.
References
Harris, R.P. (1864), On borax in California: American Philosophical Society Proceedings: 9: 450.
Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. (1868b), On the occurrence of glauberite at Borax Lake, California: California Academy of Natural Sciences Proceedings: 3: 399.
Hanks, Henry Garber (1884), Fourth report of the State Mineralogist: California Mining Bureau. Report 4, 410 pp. (includes catalog of minerals of California pp. 63-410), and miscellaneous observations on mineral products): 182.
Vonsen, Magnus (1935), The discovery of borates in California: Mineralogist: 3(12): 3-4, 21-25.
Vonsen, Magnus & G.D. Hanna (1936), Borax Lake, California: California Division Mines Report 32: 103, 104.
Bradley, W.W. (1938), Thirty-fourth report of the State Mineralogist: California Division Mines Report 34: 297.
Gale, William Alexander, W.F. Foshag & Magnus Vonsen (1939), Teepleite, a new mineral from Borax Lake, California: American Mineralogist: 24: 48-52.
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 340, 373.
California Journal of Mines and Geology (1944): 40(3): 304 (July 1944).
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 109, 197, 200, 212, 280, 289, 359, 365, 374.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 191, 205, 207, 208, 261, 262, 285.
Korbel & Novak (1999), Mineral Encylopaedia: 133.
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