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Veatchite With Colemanite

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Veatchite With Colemanite

Ex Fred Armitage Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Lang, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

A beige matrix with traces of colemanite and small pearly white crystals and crystalline fragments of veatchite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Veatchite

Formula: 
Sr2B11O16(OH)5·H2O
Strunz: 
6.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Lang Mine (Sterling Mine; Sterling Borax Mine; Tick Canyon Borax Mine), Tick Canyon Borate deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles Co., California, USA

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
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