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Hydroboracite from
Eagle Borax Spring, Inyo County, California, USA


Locality type:Spring
Classification
Species:Hydroboracite
Formula:CaMg[B3O4(OH)3]2 · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hydroboracite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eagle Borax Spring, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:637441
Long-form Identifier:1:3:637441:9
GUID (UUID V4):36d9233d-c458-4cbd-a2d8-536092a96f57
Nearest other occurrences of Hydroboracite
21.1km (13.1 miles) Boraxo Mine, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
21.7km (13.5 miles) Monte Blanco Mine, Monte Blanco, Black Mountains, Amargosa Range, Inyo County, California, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
22.2km (13.8 miles) Furnace Creek Wash (Monte Blanco Borax and Salt mining district; Death Valley Borax and Salt mining district), Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
23.5km (14.6 miles) Mott prospect (Mott Colemanite prospect; Mott open cut), Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Terry Mine (Terry Borate Mine; Terry pit; Terry deposit), Amargosa Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
33.4km (20.8 miles) Lila C. Mine (Leila See Mine; Lilac Mine), Greenwater Range, Inyo County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
as a deposit around a thermal spring (Eagle Borax Spring, California, USA). Association: Larderellite,...aristarainite, hydroboracite, kaliborite, mcallisterite, pinnoite, rivadavite (Eagle Borax Spring, California, USA)...In the USA, at the Eagle Borax Spring, Furnace Creek district, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California. Name:
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Furnace Creek district, California, USA; exhibits preferred orientation. 8.715 (100)...00] 99.95 100.00 (1) Furnace Creek district, California, USA; recalculated to 100% after deduction of ginorite...in altered basalt (Furnace Creek district, California, USA); a primary mineral in a metamorphosed borate...Creek district, California, USA); starkeyite, gypsum (Sterling Hill, New Jersey, USA); rivadavite (Tincalayu...Argentina); hexahydrite, hydroboracite, hungchaoite (China). Distribution: In the USA, from the Mott colemanite
Report (issue)
Hydroboracite CaMgB6 O8 (OH)6 • 3H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...may be primary. Association: Colemanite, hydroboracite, tunellite. Distribution: Originally described...the USA, from the Thompson mine, near Ryan, in the Terry deposit, and at the Eagle Borax Spring, Furnace...Valley, Inyo Co., in the Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern Co., and elsewhere in California. From the...(1978) Refinement of the crystal structure of hydroboracite. Can. Mineral., 16, 75–80. (3) Pekov, I.V. (1998)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
andAssociated Evaporites at EagleBoraxSpring, DeathValley,California: A Spectroscopic Exploration JAMESK. CROWLEY...crusts at theEagleBoraxspring in DeathValley,California, contain anarrayof rareMg and K borateminerals...ties, theoccurrence of ulexitein bothNa borate(borax-kernite) andCa borate(ulexite-eolemanite) deposits...theirgeologic preservation. Theoccurrence of Mg borates in borax-kernite deposits is'also relatedto fraetionation...in DeathVal- troscopic 1993;Crowleyand ley, California, havebeenan importantsoumeof mineral of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit found that ulexite (NaCaB5 O8 ·8H2 O) and hydroboracite (CaMgB6 O11 ·6H2 O) are the dominant borate...deposits [5,6]. According to Qu et al. (1981), hydroboracite occurs as 0.5–2 mm spherical grains in the ore...deposits, and the borate ooids comprise ~70% hydroboracite in addition to dolomite or hydromagnesite and...capping on top of the hydroboracite layers, which were converted from hydroboracite [5]. Subordinate borate...when the solution is diluted or supplemented with borax. The onshore borate deposit is overall characterized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
it is comprised of: a central body of Na borate (borax), an intermediate zone of Na–Ca borate (ulexite)...Mg borate horizon overlying the central body of borax. The genesis of such a mineral zonation in the Tertiary...the concentric pattern of the facies. The various borax lithofacies (chemical, clastic, mixed) present in...be the main controls on the crystallization of borax. No petrographic evidence was found for an inyoite-to-colemanite...mineral zonation in Kırka is primary, not only for borax and ulexite, but also for both the colemanite forming
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
Report (volume)
antiseptic and insecticide for cockroaches, and borax as a cleaning flux in welding and as a water softener...in Mineralogy volume. CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY Borax (tincal) was known in the ancient world (Persian...preparation of boric acid from borax. In the eighteenth century natural borax, know as Tincar or Tincal was...purified if for metal fusion into a compound known as borax (Weeks and Leicester, 1968). Boric acid, called...sedativum (sedative salt) was first prepared from borax in 1702 by Wilhelm Homberg by reaction with iron
Report (volume)
Ac sunccn sack ood cesccece tenn aaa cane syk ees Usa RUT TRO Re ete ret ee 182 BAK CIC sc cee ca thabucasats...antiseptic and insecticide for cockroaches, and borax as a cleaning flux in welding and as a water softener...in Mineralogy volume. CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY Borax (tincal) was known in the ancient world (Persian...preparation of boric acid from borax. In the eighteenth century natural borax, know as Tincar or Tincal was...purified if for metal fusion into a compound known as borax (Weeks and Leicester, 1968). Boric acid, called
 
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