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Smythite from
Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, USA


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Smythite
Formula:(Fe,Ni)3+xS4 (x=0-0.3)
Comments:Occurs as scales of rosettes of highly magnetic material on hisingerite in joint cracks of a dense black basalt underlying a portion of the deposit; also as shining black hexagonal platelets in vesicles of a vuggy basalt. Also occurs infrequently as inclusions in kernite and as disseminated grains or coatings on shear surfaces in claystone of the lower shale member.
Colour:Silvery-white to brassy-black, black
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Kernite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smythite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:510022
Long-form Identifier:1:3:510022:4
GUID (UUID V4):adc96801-9012-450a-b601-1552b763e3b8
Localities for Smythite in this Region
Rio Tinto Borax Mine, Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Smythite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Rio Tinto Borax Mine, Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Smythite Fe3+x S4 (x = 0 to 0.3) c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal...Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Bloomington, Indiana, USA. 1.732 (100), 1.897 (80), 1.979 (70), 11.5 (60),...Total 98.94 99.27 100.00 (1) Bloomington, Indiana, USA; by electron microprobe, average of seven analyses;...galena, chalcopyrite, calcite. Distribution: In the USA, in Monroe Co., Indiana, from a road cut about 3...and near Unionville; at the Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern Co., California; and from near Helena, Lewis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SODIC CLAY -ZEOLITE ASSEMBLAGE IN BASALT AT BORON, CALIFORNIA' WILLIAM S. WISE 2 AND WALLACE D. KLECK3...University of California Santa Barbra, California 93106 3 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California 92626...exposed by the U.S. Borax open pit at Boron, Kern County, California. Analcime and saponite are widespread...controlled by the development of an overlying, Na-borate lake. The wide distribution of saponite, analcime...heulandite on clinoptilolite. Key Words-Analcime, Boron, Cation exchange, Clinoptilolite, Gmelinite, Heulandite
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Report (issue)
CORE LOGS FROM FIVE HOLES NEAR KRAMER, IN THE MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA William K. Benda, R. C. Erd,.... 27 Mineralogy. ...................... 30 Boron content of the cores. .............. 32 Correlation...five holes near Kramer, in the Mojave Desert, California. .......... v/2. Map of Kramer-Four Corners area...area, California, \ shoving geology and gravimetric data. ........ . / 3. 11 Graphic logs of the...near Kramer, California. . . . ..... Table 11 . . 39 1. Sequence*of rock units near Kramer, California
Report (volume)
Core Logs from Five Test Holes Near Kramer California By WILLIAM K. BENDA, R. C. ERD, and WARD C. SMITH...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE MOJAVE DESERT AND ADJACENT REGION, CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1045-F Detailed...Mineralogy ____ ________________________-_________. Boron content of the cores________________________________...11. Geologic map and sections of Kramer-Four Corners area, California, showing gravimetric data _____________________...cores from Four Corners test holes 1 to 5 near Kramer.________---_--____-_-_-______________ In pocket
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
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
Book (edition)
(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens
Book (edition)
Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San Jose, California. Andrew M. Clark: Dept. of Mineralogy, Natural...Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin Park, California. Stanley Dyl: Seaman Mineralogical Museum, Michigan...Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California. Howard T. Evans: U.S.G.S., Reston, Virginia...Claren N. (‘‘Si’’) and Ann Frazier: Berkeley, California. Carl Francis: Mineralogical Museum, Harvard...Paris, France. Legrand A. Gould: Pebble Beach, California. George E. Harlow: Dept. of Min. Sci., American
 
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