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Mount Blanco Mine (Mount Blanco deposit; Mount Blanco adit), Mount Blanco, Black Mts, Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District), Death Valley National Park, Inyo Co., California, USA

Meyerhofferite
Mount Blanco Mine, Mount Blanco, Black Mts, Furnace Creek District, Death Valley National Park, Inyo Co., California, USA

Photo: John Sobolewski
A former borax mine located in the NE¼NE¼ sec. 17, T27N, R2E, SBM, on the E face of Mount Blanco.

Mineral List

Analcime
Colemanite
Hydroboracite
Inyoite (TL)
Meyerhofferite (TL)
Priceite
Ulexite


7 entries listed. 7 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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References

Journal of the Washington Academy of Science (1914): 4: 354-356.

Schaller, Waldemar Theodore (1916b), Inyoite and meyerhofferite, two new calcium borates: USGS Bulletin 610: 35.

Foshag, William Frederick (1921), The origin of the colemanite deposits of California: Economic Geology: 16: 200.

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

Foshag, William Frederick (1924), The world’s biggest borax deposits (California and Nevada): Engineering & Mining Journal: 118: 420.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, 7th. edition, Volume II: 359.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 264, 376.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press:

Tschernich, R. (1992): Zeolites of the World: 64.


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