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Veatchite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Billie Mine, Ryan, Furnace Creek, Inyo County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm
Description

Outstanding colorless silky crystals of th every rare Sr borate mineral vaetchite from a locality in California

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

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

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