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| Description | |
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| Type Locality: | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA is the type locality for Hanksite |
| Comments: | Occurs as euhedral crystals principally in the upper salt in beds to 5 feet (1.5 meters) thick. Crystals 5 - 30 mm long and to 150 mm. |
| Quality of samples: | not specified / average specimens |
| Confirmation | |
| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| References | |
| References: | American Journal of Science (1885), ser. 3, 30, 133-135; Hidden, William Earl (1885), On hanksite, a new anhydrous sulphate-carbonate of sodium from San Bernardino County, California: New York Academy of Science Annals: 3: 230-241; Hanks, Henry Garber (1889), On the occurrence of hanksite in California: American Journal of Science, 3rd. series: 37: 63; Smith, George Irving & D.V. Haines (1964), Character and distribution of nonclastic minerals in the Searles Lake evaporite deposit, California: USGS Bulletin 1181-P: 16-18; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 284; 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: 549, 629; Mineralogical Record (2007): 38: 213. |
| Associated minerals: | |
| Associates: | Aphthitalite Borax Burkeite Halite Realgar Sulphohalite Trona |
| Data | |
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Hanksite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA |
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