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Tunellite & Hydroboracite

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Tunellite & Hydroboracite

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Description
Locality: 
Kramer Borate Deposit, Kern County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3 × 3 cm
Weight: 
28.50gr
Description

Nice pearly white tunellite crystals on a matrix covered in clusters of bladed hydroboracite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tunellite

Formula: 
SrB6O9(OH)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
6.FC.05
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
U.S. Borax Mine (Pacific West Coast Borax; Pacific Coast Borax Co.; Boron Mine; U.S. Borax and Chemical Corp.; Kramer Mine; Baker Mine), Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co., California, USA

Hydroboracite

Formula: 
CaMg[B3O4(OH)3]2·3H2O
Strunz: 
6.CB.15
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Inder B deposit and salt dome, Atyrau (Gur'yev), Atyrau Province (Atyrau Oblysy; Atyrau Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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