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Pararealgar from
Boron, Kern County, California, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Pararealgar
Formula:As4S4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Colemaniteⓘ20 photos of Pararealgar associated with Colemanite at this locality.
Ulexiteⓘ4 photos of Pararealgar associated with Ulexite at this locality.
Realgar2 photos of Pararealgar associated with Realgar at this locality.
Tunelliteⓘ1 photo of Pararealgar associated with Tunellite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pararealgar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Boron, Kern County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:135908
Long-form Identifier:1:3:135908:4
GUID (UUID V4):cd32e45d-d3b4-4fdc-843e-ef87f270724a
Localities for Pararealgar in this Region
Rio Tinto Borax Mine, Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Pararealgar
6.5km (4.0 miles) ⓘRio Tinto Borax Mine, Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 02:07 26 December 2014 ORPIMENT OR PARAREALGAR? The Connoisseur’s Choice column on orpiment...However, it mentioned that orpiment is found in Boron, California, a statement I question. To my knowledge no...from Boron. The yellow minerd from here that is often called orpiment is, in fact, pararealgar. The mistake...crystal lattice breakdown and becomes the dimorph, pararealgar. Both are monoclinic but with differing latticework...Fortunately, realgar is red, and pararealgar is bright yellow. Pararealgar was not recognized as such until
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nepheline,19 olivine. 977 parafransoletite,843 pararealgar,1266 pargasite,1250 perovskite, 359 phlogopite...gy--Si I icates. By R.M. Pierrot and F. Cesbron.216 Boron albite, 76 Bortinoite, 1301 Brazil, 101, 168,545...(Cu,Fe)(Re,MoLSa, I I 16 Calcite,2M,90d, Ll58 California,94, 565, 795,977, ll0j Camerolaite,1116 Cancrinite...670 Cordierite,930 Crystal growth almandine.512 boron albite, 76 cesiumcordierite,&7 fayalite, 1067 fluorire...1133, ll44 atrakolite, 1285 birnessire,1133, ll44 boron albite, 76 calcite, 904 capgaronnite,197 celsian
Journal (issue)
) Getchell Mine, Humboldt Co, Nevad a Boron, Kern Co, California (XX in ulexiet ) Nagyag en Felsobanya...een nieuw AsS polymorf bijgevonden dat de naam pararealgar kreeg . 56 Referenties : CLARK A .H . (19701...britrsh Columbi a Cali . Min . 18, 525-52 7 : Pararealgar, a new polymorp h STREET G .B . and MUNIR Z
Catalog/List
AlmanUSA/ bis 1,5 cm grofk lcuchten...h~-olithsKS 6-12 DM 3) Amazonit xx: Pikes Peak / Colorado USA/ bis 6cm gro/3elcuchten...DM -t) Austinit xx:+ AUSA/ kleine, farblose Krislalle, ...Thaumasit xx Crestmore Quarry RiversiUSA kkin graue Kristalk aufMatrix MM/KS 12 DM 9) Apachit...Apachit xx Christmas Mine Gila Co. Arizona / USA Grilnliche na
Journal (issue)
Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California. Lower left: Rhodochrosite, 2.5 cm, from the...beryl, 2.4 cm, from Slieve Corra, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland. Gem-crystal thumbnails illustrated...shows. The Mineralogical Society of Southern California, founded in 1931, was the first club established... The earliest of these organizations was the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies, which...well-known pioneer of thumbnail collecting was the California dealer Willard Perkin (1907–1991)—not so much
Journal (issue)
mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by E. E.... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Ordway, consummate California field collector, was born in Los Angeles, California on August 28, 1935...and Albert J. Ordway. He lived in Bloomington, California for 25 years, until his retirement, at which...which time he and his wife moved to Hesperia, California north of San Bernardino. Al was a nice guy and respected...30 years as a transportation engineer for the California Highway Department before retiring in 1995 to
Book
worden. Realgar (AsS) wordt door licht omgezet in pararealgar en wordt daardoor gelig en zal tenslotte volledig...Noorwegen) in een micro-mount doosje Borax (New Pit, Boron, Californië) in gesloten Jousi-doosje Tarnowitziet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
obtained from Longtang diggings in Nanhua 87 county, Yunnan province. It was ground into micron-sized...materials, 101 which are composed of the mixture of boron nitride and epoxy powders. No pressure 102 medium...photoinduced transition of 377 realgar to pararealgar. Inorganic Chemistry 46, 10624–10631. 378 Naumov...siderophile 387 and chalcophile trace elements and boron. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 60, 388 587–611
Journal (issue)
Beurs (M-F) . Tentoonst over toermalijn ui t California . NL DEN HAAG . Nederlands Congresgebouw . 10-17...ZUTPHEN_Hanzehof, Coehoornsingel 1 . 10-17 h . Beurs (M-F) . USA MACOMBIILLINOIS . National Fossil Exposition . W...enz . (GOS ) Arizona, Arkansas, Ohio, Tennessee (USA ) Esthetische zeolieten . Poona, Nasik, Arangabad...nu plots een heus interessant mineraal , nl . pararealgar . De doolhof van de rathieten (rathiet, rathiet-I...R .W . TSCHERNICH, Geoscience Press, Phoenix AZ (USA), 563 pp ., 1992, 84 .95 USD . Engelstalig . ISBN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
only six are really ore-forming—Sulfur Bank in California, Steamboat Springs in Nevada, Broadlands-Ahaki...mineralization of 1.0-4.5 g/L, and are enriched in boron and silica. Carbon dioxide predominates in the gas...Uzon-Waiotapu type are: Xray-amorphous orpiment, pararealgar, realgar, uzonite, alacranite, stibnite, metastibnite...to Mercury Deposits in Part of North-Central California: U. S. Geological Survey Bull. 1382-A, 19 pp...5, pp. 25-30. Darby, d'E. C , 1980, Arsenic and boron in the Tongonan environment: Trans. Geothermal Res
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...of cancer on Christmas eve, in Grenada Hills, California. Beth Gordon was a well known show dealer, having...of America 1660 Stewart Street Santa Monica, California 90406 The Mineralogical Record, March-April,...of the vicinity of Italian Mountain, Gun­ nison County, Colorado. Proceedings o f the U.S. National Museum...the Italian Mountain intrusive complex, Gunnison County, Col­ orado. Unpublished PhD thesis, Palo Alto
Journal (issue)
are topaz and tourma lines. Gold was found in California in 1848, sparking off the Great American Gold...Borates consist of a metal that has combined with boron and oxygen. They are used in antiseptics, glass...(Germany); Chihuahua and Zacatecas (Mexico). In the USA, there are large quantities of acanthite at Leadville...Zealand, in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska and California, USA. The Alaskan deposits are found close to significant...byssolite is found mainly in Pennsylvania and Virginia, USA. FACT FILE ACTINOLITE Group: Silicates Crystal
Report (volume)
BORON MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY Second Printing with corrections and additions Edited by...SHORT COURSE NOTES ) ISSN 0275-0279 Volume 33 BORON: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry ISBN 0-939950-41-3...SUITE 6 0 1 WASHINGTON, D C 2 0 0 3 6 U . S . A . BORON: MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY FOREWORD...2002 COVER: The cover illustrates the entry for boron in the Periodic Table. From upper left to right...a close match to the diagnostic flame color for boron obtained when a mixture of boric acid and methanol
Report (volume)
REVIEWS in MINERALOGY Volume 33 BORON MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY E.S. Grew | & L. M...nse_g9a2 REVIEWS in MINERALOGY Volume 33 BORON MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY Edited by...SHORT COURSE NOTES ) ISSN 0275-0279 Volume 33 BORON: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry ISBN 0-939950-41-3...STREET, NW, SUITE 601 WASHINGTON, DC 20036 U.S.A. BORON: MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY FOREWORD...1996 COVER: The cover illustrates the entry for boron in the Periodic Table. From upper left to right
Journal (issue)
involvem ent w ith boron m ineral­ ogy, chemistry, and the tow n o f B oron, California. V inces interest...analytical techniques and procedures for analyz­ ing boron com pounds and associated elem ents found in the...Society in 1941. H e served as President o f the California Federation o f M ineralogical Societies in 1955-56...experience. Papers describing tw o new minerals found at Boron were co-authored by Vince. Gerstleyite, a very rare...Erd in the Mineral Information Service of the California Division o f Mines and Geology, volum e 22, num
Journal (issue)
write-up of his rockhounding experience in Socorro County, New Mexico. I couldn’t help but reminisce on my...move it to a much larger facility at the Herkimer County Fairgrounds. An individual named Larry Michon also...& MINERAL SHOW Nov. 10, 11, & 12, 2017 Jackson County Fairgrounds Pascagoula,MS admission $3.00 or $5...old dumps of the great borate deposits in Boron, California. There is plenty of evidence of ancient volcanic...low-temperature species like stibnite, cinnabar, pararealgar and calcite. They occur less often with quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Co. (type loc.), and at Incline, Mariposa Co., California, and gives X-ray powder identical with those...in a mafic plug at Coyote Peak, Humboldt Co., California, are monoclinic, C2/c, a 10.693(1), b 9.115(1)...525, e--co<0.001. Named for the composition K,Al,Boron,Si. [A.M. 66, 879; M.A. 81-3241.1 Karlite. G. Franz...serpentinized peridotite at Red Mountain, Mendocino Co., California, are monoclinic, or possibly anorthic, a 9.398...[A.M. 66, 219; M.A. 80-3528; Zap. 111, 231.] Pararealgar, A. G. Roberts, H. G. Ansell, and M. Bonardi
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado... Vermont, at Wrightwood, San Bernardino co., California, in fine crystals in talc near Wenatchee Lake
Book
cm) from the Himalaya .\1i11e,San Diego Counry/California irith a coating of cookeite. before treatment...Literature directory). Pioneering work comes from the USA, such as the brochure by Richard M. PEARL,Cleaning...Valley, Switzerland or the borate mines of Boron, California, localities where one knows which minerals...meteorite!). Dr. Steven A. HARDl!--GER (Dragon Minerals, USA) initially supported the translation from German...have enough suitable packing material ready. In the USA, where many sites can be reached by car or off-road
Journal (volume)
South Africa; and Maine and other regions of the USA. Minor deposits of rose quartz can also be found...in Afghanistan , India, Pakistan, China, Montana, USA, and Norway. ‱ ‱ TWo 19th-centurv brooches set with...at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, USA. ‱ A Burmese ruby in calcite, a common mineral.... lr 77 Praseodynium Pr 59 Thulium Tm 69 Boron B 5 Hydrogen H Bromine Br 35 Indium In...Lanka, Madagascar, Siberia, Argentina, Italy and the USA. ‱ Crystals of amethyst from Thunder Bay, Ontario
Journal (issue)
George R. Rossman San Diego, California Caterham, UK Pasadena, California Edward W. Boehm Mary L. Johnson...Andy Shen Chattanooga, Tennessee San Diego, California Wuhan, China James E. Butler Anthony R. Kampf...Kampf Guanghai Shi Washington, DC Los Angeles, California Beijing, China Alan T. Collins Robert E. Kane...Shigley London, UK Helena, Montana Carlsbad, California John L. Emmett Stefanos Karampelas Elisabeth... Welbourn Prague, Czech Republic Carlsbad, California Reading, UK Dorrit Jacob Nathan Renfro J
Journal (issue)
calcite on wil/emite from Franklin, New Jersey, USA. Left: The sample seen in normal light. Right: The...by the action of sunlight into the allotrope pararealgar. l> rCI) Left: The dark colour of this smoked...A variety of spodumene called kunzite from California, USA, is azure blue in colour when it is first removed...this powdery yellow polymorph of realgar is pararealgar. Gilding the lily So, it is clear that natural...rather more difficult to recognise. Some, like boron, are earthy solids; others are colourless gases;
Book
the geysers at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Silica-rich minerals are deposited by the hot water...ocean trenches. The famous San Andreas fault in California lies along the boundary where the Pacific Plate...FORM 25 rich in exotic elements such as fluorine, boron, lithiurn, berylliun1, niobium and tantalun1. These...other rarer 1ninerals. When the fluids are rich in boron and lithium, tou1·maline is formed. When fluids...are country by country (except for Canada and the USA which are listed last, state by state) with each
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of these species. In some instances, such as pararealgar (AsS), digenite (Cu1.8S), and ramsdellite (MnO2)...al. 2008); Fresno County, California (Alfors et al. 1965); and Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey (Peters...P-saturated hypersaline waters of Mono Lake, California. [#50–Coal minerals]. An eclectic assortment...Seven new barium minerals from eastern Fresno County, California. American Mineralogist, 50, 314–340. Allwood...endoevaporitic microbial community from Death Valley, California. Geology, 30, 1075–1078. Dove, P.M. (2010) The
 
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