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Inyoite from
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

Description
Type Locality:	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 is the type locality for Inyoite
Comments:	Occurs as tabular crystals altering to meyerhofferite.
Habit:	Tabular
Colour:	White
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1914): 4: 354-356; Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 359; Schaller, Waldemar Theodore (1916b), Inyoite and meyerhofferite, two new calcium borates: USGS Bulletin 610: 35; Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 264.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Colemanite Meyerhofferite Priceite
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Inyoite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view 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
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