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