Colemanite (Ca2B6O11·5H2O) or (CaB3O4(OH)3·H2O) is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits of alkaline lacustrine environments. Colemanite is a secondary...
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3 Brass 3.5 Adamite 3.5-4 Sphalerite 4 Iron 4–4.5 Ordinary steel 4.5 Colemanite 5 Apatite 5-5.5 Goethite 5.5 Glass 5.5–6 Opal 6 Rhodium 6-6.5 Rutile 6...
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to gradually melt the silica sand, limestone, kaolin clay, fluorspar, colemanite, dolomite and other minerals until a liquid forms. It is then extruded...
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287-91-2 B3N3H6 borazine 6569-51-3 B4C boron carbide 12069-32-8 B4CaO7 colemanite B4H20Na2O17 borax Ba(AlO2)2 barium aluminate 12004-04-5 Ba(AsO3)2 barium...
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sphalerite (ZnS), an ore of zinc; cassiterite (SnO2), an ore of tin; and colemanite, an ore of boron. Gems are minerals with an ornamental value, and are...
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Chrysotile Cinnabar Clinochlore Clinohumite Clinozoisite Clintonite Cobaltite Colemanite Cordierite Iolite (var.) Cornwallite Corundum Ruby (var.) Sapphire (var...
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Coldwellite Cwl Cuprospinel Cspl Calvertite Cvt Cesanite Csa Chongite Cng Colemanite Cole Cuprostibite Cusb Calzirtite Caz Césarferreiraite Céf Chopinite Cpn...
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[B(O,OH)4]− anion exists as well. Many borate minerals, such as borax, colemanite, and ulexite, are salts: soft, readily soluble, and found in evaporite...
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include: Ground colemanite Ground Ulexite Calcined Tincal (Compacted) Bigadiç Colemanite Kestelek Colemanite Hisarcik Colemanite Espey Colemanite Ulexite Natural...
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Clintonite Cobaltite Coccinite Coconinoite Coesite Coffinite Cohenite Colemanite Colimaite Collinsite Coloradoite Columbite (mineral group) Combeite Conichalcite...
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buried in the Boot Hill cemetery. The discovery of the borate mineral colemanite in the Calico mountains a few years after the settlement of the town also...
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and ores, however: the main source is borax, but it is also found in colemanite, boracite, kernite, tusionite, berborite and fluoborite. Major world miners...
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Crater on Mars. Economically important sources of boron are the minerals colemanite, rasorite (kernite), ulexite and tincal. Together these constitute 90%...
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19.4 percent of those age 65 or over. Borate evaporites in the form of colemanite was first reported in 1913 during drilling of a water well. Claims were...
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borosilicate minerals such as borax, boracite, ulexite (boronatrocalcite) and colemanite. Borates also occur in seawater, where they make an important contribution...
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tuft of acicular crystals. Ulexite is frequently found associated with colemanite, borax, meyerhofferite, hydroboracite, probertite, glauberite, trona,...
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(RGRK). They produce zinc and lead concentrates as well as boric acid colemanite. The Soviet planned economy aimed to establish industrial facilities in...
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tracks leased from the BGR. The TTR was built to reach the borax-bearing colemanite beds in Death Valley as well as the gold fields. By 1907, about 4,000 people...
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of what he believed to be gypsum. Further testing revealed it was the colemanite form of borax. Francis Marion "Borax" Smith bought the claim for his Pacific...
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A map of the Death Valley Railroad running from Death Valley Junction all the way up to the mines at Ryan near Colemanite...
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Ryan, California (redirect from Colemanite, California)
of Lila C was constructed in 1907 near the Lila C mine, which produced colemanite for the Pacific Coast Borax Company. The town was named by its owner William...
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zones in Badwater Basin and in rough silty rock salt in Cottonball Basin Colemanite Ca2B6O11·5H2O Questionably present (X-ray determination but unsatisfactory)...
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mixtures of formaldehyde, glyceraldehyde, and borate minerals such as colemanite (Ca2B6O115H2O) or kernite (Na2B4O7). However, issues remain with both...
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Borax Works in Death Valley ceased with the development of the richer Colemanite borax deposits at Borate in the Calico Mountains, which were discovered...
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Activity at Harmony Borax Works ceased with the development of the richer Colemanite borax deposits at Borate in the Calico Mountains, where they continued...
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CaB3O3(OH)5·4H2O. Associated minerals include priceite, meyerhofferite, colemanite, hydroboracite, ulexite and gypsum. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved...
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masses. Association minerals include montmorillonite, chlorite, calcite, colemanite, veatchite, sphalerite, pyrite, marcasite, galena and dolomite. Common...
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precipitate is calcium borate. A hydrated form occurs naturally as the minerals colemanite, nobleite and priceite.[citation needed] One of its uses is as a binder...
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gunpowder. Later work addressed colemanite(borate) deposits, both in Shoshone and elsewhere. His 1926 paper on the Shoshone colemanite deposits described the first...
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of one to two weeks. A mortar is made with a "flux" (glass, soda, or colemanite) to help fuse it. The adobe blocks are laid so that the joints are staggered...
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