GoweriteCorkscrew Canyon Mine, Corkscrew Canyon, Black Mts, Furnace Creek District, Death Valley National Park, Inyo Co., California, USA
Photo: Elmar Lackner Latitude: 36°22'40"N
Longitude: 116°45'36"W
A former borate mine located in the center N½ sec. 21, T26N, R2E, SBM, near Furnace Creek in Corkscrew canyon, E flank of the Black Mountains.
References
Schaller, Waldemar Theodore (1916b), Inyoite and meyerhofferite, two new calcium borates: USGS Bulletin 610: 35.
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., J.F. McAllister & A.C. Vlisidis (1961), Nobleite, another new hydrous calcium borate from the Death Valley region, California: American Mineralogist: 46: 560-571.
McAllister, James Franklin (1961), Sborgite in the Furnace Creek area, California: USGS PP 424-B, Article 129: B299-B301.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 228, 280.
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: 350.
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.: 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.
Muehle, G. (1974): Colemanite pseudomorphs from the Corkscrew mine, Death Valley, California. Mineralogical Record 5, 174-177.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 238, 246, 252.
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