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

Description
Type Locality:Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA is the type locality for Tychite
Comments:A few octahedral crystals mixed with northupite crystals; bottom mud and mixed layers.
Quality of samples:not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
References
References:Penfield, Samuel Lewis & George S. Jamieson (1905), On tychite, a new mineral from Borax Lake, California, and on its artificial production and its relations to northupite: American Journal of Science, 4th. series: 20: 217; Gale, Hoyt Stoddard (1915), Salines in the Owens, Searles, and Panamint basins, southeastern California: USGS Bulletin 580: 308; Foshag, William Frederick (1935), Burkeite, a new mineral species from Searles Lake, California: American Mineralogist: 20: 51; Smith, George Irving & W.P. Pratt (1957), Core logs from Owens, China, Searles and Panamint Basins, California: USGS Bulletin 1045-A: 31; Pabst, Adolf, Dwight L. Sawyer, Jr. & George S. Switzer (1963), Galeite and related phases in the system Na2SO4.NaF.NaCl: American Mineralogist: 48: 487; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 208; 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: 279, 294, 340, 633; American Mineralogist (1969): 54: 302.; Gale, Hoyt Stoddard (1915), Mineralogy of the Searles Lake deposits in Salines in the Owens, Searles, and Panamint basins, southeastern California: USGS Bulletin 580: 296-308
Associated minerals:
Associates:Burkeite
Northupite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tychite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
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