Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Colemanite

Views:
Watches:
JYJ722446

Colemanite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Emet Borate Deposit, Emet, Kütahya Province, Turkey
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5 × 3.5 cm
Description

Colourless colemanite crystals on both sides from the Emet Borate deposite including an old label dating to 1972. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Colemanite

Formula: 
Ca[B3O4(OH)3]·H2O
Strunz: 
6.CB.10
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District; Death Valley Area Borate Deposits; Ryan area), Inyo Co., California, USA
Labels
Label Images - only: Colemanite