Colemanite (Ca2B6O11·5H2O) or (CaB3O4(OH)3·H2O) is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits of alkaline lacustrine environments. Colemanite is a secondary...
5 KB (346 words) - 07:01, 29 November 2024
[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...
10 KB (947 words) - 21:18, 26 July 2023
tuft of acicular crystals. Ulexite is frequently found associated with colemanite, borax, meyerhofferite, hydroboracite, probertite, glauberite, trona,...
23 KB (2,638 words) - 22:53, 3 December 2024
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...
28 KB (2,675 words) - 03:42, 17 November 2024
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...
16 KB (1,127 words) - 13:43, 27 November 2024
to gradually melt the silica sand, limestone, kaolin clay, fluorspar, colemanite, dolomite and other minerals until a liquid forms. It is then extruded...
39 KB (4,795 words) - 06:50, 21 December 2024
Chrysotile Cinnabar Clinochlore Clinohumite Clinozoisite Clintonite Cobaltite Colemanite Cordierite Iolite (var.) Cornwallite Corundum Ruby (var.) Sapphire (var...
13 KB (867 words) - 16:44, 20 December 2024
Etidot-67 (Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate) Natural Boron Minerals: Colemanite (Ground, Granular, Compacted, Concentrated) Ulexite Tincal Şebnem Önder;...
7 KB (524 words) - 15:28, 27 October 2024
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...
20 KB (1,976 words) - 20:05, 21 December 2024
and ores, however: the main source is borax, but it is also found in colemanite, boracite, kernite, tusionite, berborite and fluoborite. Major world miners...
50 KB (5,716 words) - 13:12, 9 December 2024
12007-33-9 B3N3H6 borazine 6569-51-3 B4C boron carbide 12069-32-8 B4CaO7 colemanite B4Na2O7.10H2O borax 1303-96-4 Ba(AlO2)2 barium aluminate 12004-04-5 Ba(AsO3)2...
183 KB (107 words) - 07:29, 24 November 2024
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...
3 KB (167 words) - 01:25, 14 January 2024
CaB3O3(OH)5·4H2O. Associated minerals include priceite, meyerhofferite, colemanite, hydroboracite, ulexite and gypsum. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved...
2 KB (87 words) - 00:15, 19 January 2024
Clintonite Cobaltite Coccinite Coconinoite Coesite Coffinite Cohenite Colemanite Colimaite Collinsite Coloradoite Columbite (mineral group) Combeite Conichalcite...
43 KB (2,846 words) - 19:16, 19 December 2024
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...
111 KB (13,151 words) - 10:21, 21 December 2024
minerals are known. Economically important sources of boron are the minerals colemanite, rasorite (kernite), ulexite and tincal. Together these constitute 90%...
126 KB (13,007 words) - 23:10, 20 December 2024
borosilicate minerals such as borax, boracite, ulexite (boronatrocalcite) and colemanite. Borates also occur in seawater, where they make an important contribution...
24 KB (2,677 words) - 05:17, 2 December 2024
arid regions of California, and as widely dispersed minerals such as colemanite, ulexite, and tourmaline. Sassolite—natural boric acid—occurs especially...
29 KB (2,915 words) - 03:34, 7 December 2024
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...
8 KB (731 words) - 21:32, 6 September 2024
million tonnes of ore grading 30% boron. Most of this is split between colemanite and ulexite. The Bigadiç mine consists of four separate open-pit mines...
3 KB (249 words) - 07:00, 29 November 2024
Coldwellite Cwl Cuprospinel Cspl Calvertite Cvt Cesanite Csa Chongite Cng Colemanite Cole Cuprostibite Cusb Calzirtite Caz Césarferreiraite Céf Chopinite Cpn...
180 KB (418 words) - 12:01, 15 December 2024
A map of the Death Valley Railroad running from Death Valley Junction all the way up to the mines at Ryan near Colemanite...
8 KB (889 words) - 06:44, 12 July 2024
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...
39 KB (4,016 words) - 12:39, 11 October 2024
borate deposit with clay and carbonate minerals. It occurs associated with colemanite, howlite, ulexite and pentahydroborite. It is a rare but important mineral...
5 KB (314 words) - 18:46, 8 August 2024
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...
4 KB (366 words) - 20:01, 1 July 2024
Activity at Harmony Borax Works ceased with the development of the richer Colemanite borax deposits at Borate in the Calico Mountains, where they continued...
7 KB (645 words) - 15:42, 3 December 2024
masses. Association minerals include montmorillonite, chlorite, calcite, colemanite, veatchite, sphalerite, pyrite, marcasite, galena and dolomite. Common...
7 KB (562 words) - 20:55, 22 December 2023
Priceite is rare and has only been found in a few ores. It is related to colemanite. The mineral is named after Thomas Price who is the first to study the...
2 KB (195 words) - 21:34, 13 March 2024
(RGRK). They produce zinc and lead concentrates as well as boric acid colemanite. The Soviet planned economy aimed to establish industrial facilities in...
11 KB (1,215 words) - 06:25, 14 August 2024
Coleman died at his home in San Francisco on November 22, 1893. The mineral Colemanite was named in his honor. The actor Gregg Palmer was cast as Coleman in...
9 KB (1,022 words) - 17:11, 9 December 2024