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Borax from
Rhodes Marsh, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


Classification
Species:Borax
Formula:Na2(B4O5)(OH)4 · 8H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Borax data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rhodes Marsh, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2143
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2143:2
GUID (UUID V4):72b107e1-d7ea-4e5e-af0f-ba0374bab022
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District...Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure
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f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■...MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING...concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of this character has ap­...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered... In 1909, E. E. Stuart, Inspector of Mines for Nevada, compiled “Nevada’s Mineral Resources” which was
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: Jenifer mine, Boron, California, USA. 12.2 (100), 7.75 (80), 6.00 (30), 4.16 (30), 8.03...California, USA. (2) NaCaB5 O6 (OH)6 • 5H2 O. Occurrence: Typically in playa and salt-marsh deposits in...billion tons of ulexite. Association: Colemanite, borax, meyerhofferite, hydroboracite, probertite, glauberite...Peru. In the USA, at Columbus Marsh, Rhodes Marsh, and Teels Marsh, Esmeralda Co., Nevada; in California
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
prospectors in a region civilization had hardly touched. Borax Lake Region The discovery of borates in the United...John A. Veatch on June 28, 1857, to the California Borax Company, for whom he was scouting the northern part...1856, in Tehama and Lake Counties. This was of borax, a hydrous sodium borate, which seems to have been...occurrences of borax was found in solution in the waters at Tuscan Springs, Tehama County, later referred...production of borax and boron products. Dr. Veatch found other springs containing dissolved borax during 1856
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wu OUTLINE OF NEVADA MINING HISTORY— Joseph V: Tingley a RobertC.Horton _ Francis C. Lincoln 3 . ...Publication of this new edition of “Outline of Nevada Mining History” was made — possible with the assistance...eh aa nearly 48 million acres of public land in Nevada. Most of the minerals, _ _ geothermal energy, and...ahij 4 = Wh A a ‘ a a y 4 Pte Es in Nevada comes from publicland. First edition, first printing...Leshendok, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Eric Moody, Nevada Historical Society é Jon Price, National Research
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SP 3> P P P .P P ÂŁP SP S3 SP 0 P SP P P O 0 borax, ulexite BORATE MINERALS |ulexite iulexite julexite...julexite iulexite? ulexite 'ulexite 'ulexite, borax, brine julexite [ulexite julexite inyoite, ulexite...ulexite 'ulexite ulexite ulexite ! ulexite, minor borax ! [ulexite lulexite ulexite 'ulexite .ulexite 'ulexite...ulexite i i ulexite ; 'ulexite , ulexite ulexite, borax : ulexite ulexite, tincalconite? i DEPOsnr ! TYPE{S)...ulexite ulexite? ulexite ulexite ulexite ulexite, borax? . ._ ulexite ulexite ulexite, inyoite, hydroboracite
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the Walker Lake 1° x 2° quadrangle, California-Nevada By H. L. Cannon, Sara Trimby, T. F. Harms, and........................... Yerington copper pit, Nevada..................................... Santiago mine...Pine-Nut molybdenum district, Nevada............................. Luni ng, Nevada............................4 4 4 8 8 8 8 8 13 13 13 Divide tungsten mine, Nevada..................................... Flying Cloud...mine, Nevada............................................... 13 13 13 13 Blue Noble mine, Nevada.....
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
production of borax and boron products. Dr. Veatch found other springs con­ taining dissolved borax during 1856...occurrences were carefully examined, but proved too Borax Lake Region small for production. Hunters and early...and a sulphur deposit. Such re­ the California Borax Company, for whom ports spurred Dr. Veatch on to...known as Sulphur Bank, Lake of borax, a hydrous sodium borate, which County) he crossed a steep range of...region. later named Borax Lake. Alkali Lake One of the first occurrences of borax covered an area of fifty
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the form of borax and ulexite are found in the adjacentparts of Nevada. The waters of Borax and Hachinhama...Hachinhama Lakes in Lake County, California, are rich in dissolvedborax. The writer has had the opportunityof...basinsof today. Bora:r Lake, in Lake County, California, was the first borax- producinglocalityin the United...from the larger, fresh water Clear Lake. Formerly Borax Lake shrunk to a small volume in the summer but...solfatara are highly borifer6us. The boron in Borax Lake is without doubt derived from the adjacent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THENARDITE CRYSTALSFROM RHODESMARSH, NEVADA Peur, S. IIorNs, Stanford,UnittersityThe specimenswhich furnished...of this paper were collected from Rhodes Marsh, Mineral County, Nevada, by Dwight Lemmon and were assigned...hereby expressedto each of them' Rhodes Marsh, nine miles south of Mina, Nevada, is describedby P. C. Richl...halite. Rich believes that brines filled the old borax workings in this locality, and during the evaporation...axial angleswere found without difficulty. From Rhodes Marsh have come many thenardite crystals, ranging
Report (issue)
Borax Na2 B4 O5 (OH)4 • 8H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...in the Tincalayu borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta Province. In the USA, in California, commercial...commercial deposits at Borax Lake, Lake Co.; Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co.; in the Kramer borate deposit... Inyo Co.; found in Rhodes Marsh, Teels Marsh, and others in Mineral Co., Nevada; and at Alkali Flat...(1968) A refinement of the crystal structure of borax Na2 B4 O5 (OH)4 • 8H2 O. Can. Mineral., 9, 573.
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA CopyrightŠ 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Report (volume)
4. A, The "eggshell" beds, West End area, Clark County, Nev.; B, Anniversary mine, West End area_____________________...near Bissell, Kern County, Calif.; B, Magnesite mine, Afton area, San Bernardino County, Calif _______________________...of brucite-magnesite area in Paradise Range, Nye County, Nev_-----___________________________ 122 142...Annual production of nonferrous metals in Imperial County, Calif., 1908-32_____-__-_-_--______--__--_---__...Annual production of nonferrous metals in Inyo County, Calif., 1902-32_.__--_____._____________________
Report (volume)
................i................. 90 The salt-marsh area.................................................. Harmon County plains...................................... 127 127 Alfalfa County plain......... 128 Blaine County plain........................................ 128 Beckham County plain............................:.......... Jackson County plains. ..................................... 128 129 Bibliography............................................. 137 Nevada...............................................
Report (issue)
_____ .... _.. _. Vertical section of ore bodies, Nevada Alpine mine ..... _.................. __ ... __...__ ..... _ . Vertical s~ction of ore bodies, Nevada Alpine mine ........................ _..............immediately east of the Sierra Nevada, and reaches at least as far north as northern Nevada and as far south as...Tertiaries practically coincides with a belt in which borax is found in commercial quantity. Within the Silver...pre-Tertiary, but from evidence derived from neighboring Nevada localities it appears probable that the intrusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tennessee 38152 3 Department 4 Chemical and Borax Inc., Valencia, California 91355 of Chemistry,...forming in playa and marsh settings such as Columbus Marsh and Rhodes Marsh, Nevada, where they are closely...from deposits on lands patented by U.S. Borax Inc. (now U.S. Borax Inc., Rio Tinto Minerals) before establishment...White Monster deposits were obtained from U.S. Borax Inc. Sample descriptions are given in Table A1....consists of an Na borate inner zone containing borax and kernite enveloped by an Na-Ca borate zone consisting
Journal (volume)
mineral exhibit showing technical library showing Nevada City, 1852, from collection of historical pictures...for the State as a whole and separately for each county, the total of each mineral produced therein, provided...operators; and when such production figure for any county would conflict with such provision it may be combined...Large quantities of saline minerals (including borax, salt, gypsum, are produced annually to supply the... closing of the lead-zinc-silver mines in Inyo County, and caused sharp drops in the production of these
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waters, 233 Comments on the analysis, 235 Soda Lake, Nevada, 235 Mono Lake, 238 Owen's Lake, 239 GoodenouglT...salt playas of Nevada and California, 262 Nevada playas, 264 Columbus marsh, 264 Rhodes marsh, 267 Teels...Teels marsh, California playas, Silver Peak marsh, 269 269 Saline Valley, 275 Searles Lake or Marsh, 277 Minerals...species of salts found in Searles Lake San Bernardino County, California, 282 268 269 Fish Lake, 268 Death...analyses, 334 Deposits formed from volcanic The borax lagoons of the Tuscan fumaroles, 337 waters, 337
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Bahr, C. W.. 1962. The Holbrook Anticline, Navajo County, Arizona : in New Mexico Geol. Soc. Guidebook of...the Burkes Garden quadrangle, near Ceres, Bland County, Virginia (Coope r, 1944), and he has studied most...between Plasterco, Washington County (Fig . 2), and Locust Cove, Smyth County (Fig. 11), is exposed in one...section through Saltv1llc, Smyth Coumy-WJshington County hnt, Virgin1J. Maccrady Formation The Maccrady...to U.S. Route 91 north of Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Northeastward from Allison Gap and Saltville
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
X-ray diffraction data for kalinite, Silverpeak, Nevada 6. X-ray diffraction data for voltaite, Kremnitz...X-ray diffraction data for tschermigite, Sweetwater County, Wyoming 8. X-ray diffraction data for epsomite...diffraction data for bieberite, Dolly Prospect, Emery County, Utah 15. X-ray diffraction data for alunogen,...20. X-ray diffraction data for jarosite, Pioche, Nevada 21. X-ray diffraction data for raimondite, Island...22. X-ray diffraction data for beavcrite, Beaver County, Utah 23. X-ray diffraction data for plumbojarosite
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for example, are almost entirely derived from the USA and Tur- key, a situation too narrowly based comfort...Minerals International Congress took place in Boston, USA, in April 1988. 4| a) envi at wererieryre' humus...(4) Serpentinized dolomitic limestone (Arizona, USA; the Transvaal). The Minerals About 95% of world...Africa Amosite Crocidolite Chrysotile Italy Greece USA India Amphibole Swaziland Chrysotile with cigarette...will be ready to start production (Figure 2). USA Vermont About 15 miles south of the Canadian border
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SUNSET—WASHOE VALLEY By KATHARINE JONES Reno, Nevada How wide and peaceful is the sunset sky Enfolding...For all your work for you shall earn. Henderson, Nevada A boy and his dog on a desert trail, Exploring...ecstasy. • • • EPITAPH By KATHARINE JONES Reno, Nevada If I could always be a part Of elemental sun and...man who controlled the water supply, Sodaville, Nevada, might have been a thriving community. Instead—...water supply, a million-dollar expanse of blue Nevada sky—and some nearby bajadas where the rock collector
Journal (issue)
door prehniet zoals die van Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Geonieuws 36(5), mei 2011 119 A1 B1 =112...glauberiet van de Bertram Mine (A), Bertram, CaliforniÍ, USA; van de Mina Consuelo, Chinchón, Spanje (tabulair:...Camp Verde, Arizona, USA (6x5 cm) C. Aragoniet na glauberiet, Camp Verde, Arizona, USA (7x4 cm) D. Prehniet...Prehniet na glauberiet, Paterson, New Jersey, USA (kristal van ~3.5 cm). Verzameling en foto Š Ivån Blanco...(Mexico-, Kara Bogvaz (Turkmenistan) en Bertram (USA) zijn significante hoeveelheden astrakaniet aanwezig
Report (volume)
DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL ,,i/ ct, cg -. 1 WASHINGTON...DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility 2 History...Mining districts—Continued. Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued. Ore deposits—Continued.2 Valuable...of the shoots Milling High Grade district, Modoc County, Cal Location History of mining Accessibilty Previous
 
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