Cane Creek potash mine, Interriver Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA

Nodule of braitschite-(Ce) in anhydrite. Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.

© Brent Thorne

A small, 0.1 cm, nodule of braitschite-(Ce) in anhydrite matrix. Ref.: Raup et al Am. Min. 53 1081-1095 (1968). The nodule is about 65% micron-sized crystals of braitschite-(Ce), intermixed with quartz, anhydrite, dolomite, and halite. Nodules can be up to 8 mm, with the larger ones containing hematite, coloring them various shades of pink. ...

© 2008, JGW

Braitschite-(Ce). Specimen is from the collection of Vince Morgan (1974). Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.

© Rock Currier

Nodules of braitschite-(Ce) in anhydrite matrix, 0.4 cm field of view. Ref.: Raup et al Am. Min. 53 1081-1095 (1968). The nodule is about 65% micron-sized crystals of braitschite-(Ce), intermixed with quartz, anhydrite, dolomite, and halite. Nodules can be up to 8 mm, with the larger ones containing hematite, coloring them various shades of ...

© 2008, JGW

A 2mm bleb of braitschite on anhydrite. Rick Dalrymple Specimen & Photo.

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Pale pink-brown, granular inclusions of braitschite-(Ce) in glassy brown halite. Purchased from Ralph Merrill in 2007.

© Andrew Hodgson

Brownish Braitschite-(Ce) (not analysed, they may be quartz and/or clay) inclusions (larger one at bottom right) in pinkish-brown massive Anhydrite. Even though the locality on the label is just "Moab, Utah", the specimen is most likely from the Cane Creek potash mine. Received from Martien Verbaarschot in a trade on 27 May 2021.

This mine was initially opened by Texas Gulf Sulphur Company as underground workings in 1961 as the company sought to diversify away from sulphur production. On 27 August 1963, an explosion of combustible gas in the shop area trapped 25 miners underground. Two were rescued after 19 hours; five more were rescued after 50 hours underground. Eighteen ...

© Nathalie Brandes

This mine was initially opened by Texas Gulf Sulphur Company as underground workings in 1961 as the company sought to diversify away from sulphur production. On 27 August 1963, an explosion of combustible gas in the shop area trapped 25 miners underground. Two were rescued after 19 hours; five more were rescued after 50 hours underground. Eighteen ...

© Nathalie Brandes