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Borax

Locality: U.S. Borax open pit (Boron pit), U.S. Borax Mine (Pacific West Coast Borax; Pacific Coast Borax Co.; Boron Mine; U.S. Borax and Chemical Corp.; Kramer Mine; Baker Mine), Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co., California, USA

Borax. J. Minette collection. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm. Borax crystals grow in sumps and in the bottoms of partially flooded stopes in the old underground workings at Boron. Sometimes they grow on old mine timbers and other rubbish. In this specimen you can see that the Borax crystals are growing on a piece of wood.

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Photo added: 22nd Jun 2009

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