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Tunellite & Ulexite

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Tunellite & Ulexite

Ex J & S Mommers Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Boron, Kern County, California, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm
Description

A cluster of off white, translucent tunellite crystals with contrasting small cluster of snow white ulexite crystals from the US Borax Open Pit, Boron.

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

Ulexite

Formula: 
NaCa[B5O6(OH)6]·5H2O
Strunz: 
6.EA.25
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile
Earthstones Australia

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