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| Type Locality: | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA is the type locality for Tincalconite |
| Comments: | Occurs as a primary mineral, not a dehydration product of borax. Well-formed crystals to 4 mm in drill cores in lower salt. |
| 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; Bowser, C.J. (1964), The origin of tincalconite at Searles Lake, California: (title) American Mineralogist: 49: 1507; Smith, George Irving & D.V. Haines (1964), Character and distribution of nonclastic minerals in the Searles Lake evaporite deposit, California: USGS Bulletin 1181-P: 21; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 261; American Mineralogist (1965): 50: 281; American Mineralogist (1973): 58: 523. |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Tincalconite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA |
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