Sulphohalite from
Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
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Description
Type Locality:	Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA is the type locality for Sulphohalite
Comments:	Occurs throughout the mud and saline units; most common in the upper salt layer. Occurs on hanksite.
Habit:	Cubo-octahedrons; simple octahedrons
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Hidden, William Earl & James B. MacKintosh (1888), Sulphohalite a new sodium sulphato-chloride: American Journal of Science, 3rd. series: 36: 464; Penfield, Samuel Lewis (1900), On the chemical composition of sulphohalite: American Journal of Science, 4th. series: 9: 425-428; Pabst, Adolf, Dwight L. Sawyer, Jr. & George S. Switzer (1963), Galeite and related phases in the system Na2SO4.NaF.NaCl: American Mineralogist: 48: 485; Smith, George Irving & D.V. Haines (1964), Character and distribution of nonclastic minerals in the Searles Lake evaporite deposit, California: USGS Bulletin 1181-P: 27; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 281-283; 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, 549; Mineralogical Magazine (1975): 40: 131; Mineralogical Record (2007): 38: 213.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Burkeite Galeite Hanksite
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Sulphohalite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
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