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| Description | |
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| Comments: | Occurs as a surficial efflorescence and in large crystals in drill cores associated with many unusual saline minerals. The most abundant borate mineral here. Crystals 0.5 mm to 15 cm. |
| Quality of samples: | not specified / average specimens |
| Confirmation | |
| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| References | |
| References: | Pabst, Adolf & Dwight L. Sawyer, Jr. (1948), Tincalconite crystals from Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California: American Mineralogist: 33: 472; 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: 340, 402, 629; Mineralogical Record (2007): 38: 213. |
| Associated minerals: | |
| Associates: | Aphthitalite Burkeite Hanksite Northupite Pirssonite Schairerite Sulphohalite Sulphur Thenardite Trona Tychite |
| Data | |
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Borax data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA |
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