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Tunellite

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Description
Locality: 
Kramer Borate Deposit, Kern County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.20cm
Description

Floater group of pearly white tunellite crystals that reach 22m in size, from the type locality.

Exchanged in 1977 to Jessie Hardman by René Virlet.

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

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