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


Locality type:Spring
Classification
Species:Probertite
Formula:NaCa[B5O7(OH)4] · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Probertite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eagle Borax Spring, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:637458
Long-form Identifier:1:3:637458:7
GUID (UUID V4):40e4c725-1062-4873-995e-62df8956abcf
Nearest other occurrences of Probertite
21.0km (13.0 miles) Widow No. 1 Mine (Widow Mine), Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
21.0km (13.1 miles) Widow No. 7 Mine (Old Widow), Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
21.1km (13.1 miles) Boraxo Mine, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) Upper Biddy Mine (Upper Biddy McCarthy Mine; Big Biddy Mine), Biddy McCarthy Mines, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
22.5km (14.0 miles) Billie Mine (Billie group; Ryan Mine; Billie I Mine; Billie II Mine), Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
60.4km (37.5 miles) Gerstley Mine (Gerstley I; Gerstley pit; Kern Company Land Company), Resting Spring Range, Inyo County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Probertite NaCaB5 O7 (OH)4 • 3H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...c = 6.588(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Boron, California, USA. 9.12 (100), 2.807 (35), 6.62 (20), 3.52 (20)...65 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Baker mine, California, USA; average of two analyses, recalculated to 100%...hydrothermal spring activity; may be an ore of boron. Association: Kernite, colemanite, ulexite, borax. Distribution:...Distribution: In the USA, in California, from the Baker, Western Borax, and Suckow mines, Kramer borate
Report (issue)
Argentina); at a desert borax spring (Eagle Borax Spring, California, USA). Association: Borax, kernite, rivadavite...ameghinite, mcallisterite, kurnakovite, searlesite, probertite, ginorite, tincalconite, ulexite, halite, magnesite...halite, gypsum (Eagle Borax Spring, California, USA). Distribution: From the Tincalayu borax deposit, Salar...Province, Argentina. In the USA, on the South Meridian claim and at Eagle Borax Spring, Furnace Creek district...district, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California. Name: Honors Professor Lorenzo Francisco Aristarain (1926– )
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
Report (issue)
Hydrologic Basin Death Valley California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 494-B Hydrologic Basin...Basin Death Valley California By CHARLES B. HUNT, T. W. ROBINSON, WALTER A. BOWLES, and A. L. WASHBURN...WASHBURN GENERAL GEOLOGY OF DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 494-B of the...deposits __ Dune sand ____________________________ _ Spring deposits of travertine ____________ _ Structural...___________________________________ _ Marsh near Harmony Borax MilL ___________ _ Badwater _________________________________
Report (issue)
Plant Ecology of Death Valley, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 509 Plant Ecology...Ecology of Death Valley, California By CHARLES B. HUNT With a section on DISTRIBUTION OF FUNGI AND ...Map showing plant distribution, Death Valley, California ________________________________________ In pocket...during winter season and degree of development of spring annuals in Death Valley_______________________...__________________________ Partial analyses of spring waters in the Furnace Creek Wash area_________
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
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
 
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