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

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



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.

http://www.baymin.org/History/First_Field_Trip.html





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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