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Gowerite from
Hard Scramble claim, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA


Locality type:Claim
Classification
Species:Gowerite
Formula:Ca[B5O8(OH)][B(OH)3] · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gowerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hard Scramble claim, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:135851
Long-form Identifier:1:3:135851:3
GUID (UUID V4):e3684aba-86ff-45cf-9ea9-09e11ecf91ce
Nearest other occurrences of Gowerite
7.0km (4.3 miles) Corkscrew Canyon Mine, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) Mott prospect (Mott Colemanite prospect; Mott open cut), Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
9.9km (6.2 miles) Meridian claim, Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
9.9km (6.2 miles) South Meridian claim, Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
15.7km (9.7 miles) Gower Gulch Mine, Zabriskie Point, Black Mountains, Amargosa Range, Inyo County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is a new borate found at two localities in the Death Valley region, Inyo County, California, on weathered...priceite in the Furnace Creek Formation (Pliocene). ft occurs as nodules and coatings in gowerite, ulexiLe,...of the borate minerals produced by weathering of priceite and colemanite in the Furnace Creek Formation...mineral referred to as an "undescribed calcium borate" mineral associated with nobleite (Erd et al.,...Geological Survey, in recognition of his advancement of borate studies in southwestern United States.2 Samples
Report (issue)
Gowerite CaB6 O8 (OH)4 • 3H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...558(4) X-ray Powder Pattern: Death Valley, California, USA. 8.23 (100), 9.20 (25), 4.094 (20), 3.88 (10b)...37 Total 100.07 100.00 (1) Death Valley, California, USA; average of two analyses, Sr by flame photometry...ginorite, gypsum. Distribution: From the Hard Scramble claim, the Mott colemanite prospect, and two other...occurrences south of Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA. Name: To honor Harrison
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
9 and 10 GOWERITE, A NEW HYDROUS CALCIU},I BORATE, FROM THE DEATH VALLEY REGION, CALIFORNIA* Rrcn,lno...Aesrnacr Gowerite is a new hydrous calcium borate, CaO 3BrO3 sHrO, from the Furnace Creek borate deposits...of the Death Valley region, California. Globular minute clusters of gowerite form from the weathering of...basaltic rocks in the Furnace Creek formation of late Tertiary age. Associated with gowerite are ulexite, meyerhofierite...hydroboracite, and an undescribed magnesium borate. Gowerite is monoclinic and is optically biaxial (*)
Report (Issue volume)
LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS GtULlAil pplement 2 to INERALS OF CALIFORNIA r 1958 through 1961...1961 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS SEP 1 5 1PM Ui=JKAKY STATE OF CALIFORNIA THE RESOURCES AGENCY...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1958 Through 1961' By JOSEPH MulbodH ^%^j; \> University of California, Los... Angele0 And ROBERT W. WE^B ^ Supplement 2 California Division of Mines Ferry Building, LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Francisco, 1964 of' .STATE )5#MUND ^^^ OF CALIFORNIA G. BROWN, Governor PIhe resources agency FISJHER/
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the secondworld occurrence, DeathValleyregion,California RtcHnRo C. Eno, Jluss F. McAlr-rsrER ANDG. DoNeln...Death Valley region,California(1970).The larger sizeof the crystalsin the California occurrencehas enabledus...the SouthMeridianclaim.The third is on the Hard Scramble claim(Erd et al., 1959,Fig. 1), about l0 km southeast...southeast ofthe first localityand 3 km N72oWof Ryan. The hungchaoiteoccurs in a surficial sponge formed...lacustrinedepositsin the lower part of the Furnace Creek Formation that was assignedsomewhatinconclusively
Report (issue)
n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Death Valley, California, USA. 13.5 (100), 12.3 (62), 6.12 (55), 4.721 (42)...100.00 (1) Hard Scramble Claim, California, USA; H2 O by TGA, estimated to contain gowerite 3%; after... Association: Gowerite, ulexite, nobleite, colemanite (Death Valley, California, USA). Distribution:...Distribution: From the Hard Scramble claim, Black Mountains, 3 km north-northwest of Ryan, and on the Oliver Consolidated...Consolidated claim, 3 km west of Ryan, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA. From about 15 km northwest
Journal (issue)
Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Book
rosenhahnite Ca3(H2Si3O10) from Russian River basin, California, USA (d). The spectra were obtained by N.V. Chukanov...South Dakota, USA (b), and garyansellite [nominally, Mg2Fe3+(PO4) (OH)·2H2O] from Rapid Creek area, Yukon...single-crystal FTIR spectrum of pollucite from Maine, USA shows that this mineral also contains CO2 molecules...minerals. In melanophlogite from Mt. Hamilton, California, USA the occupancy factor of the CH4 site in the...of sturmanite from the Black Rock mine, Kuruman District, South Africa, determined from its crystal structure
 
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