Borates Hydrocarbons Gallery
This gallery includes both the Borate minerals and Hydrocarbons. There is actually no chemical basis to include these two classes in the same gallery, but rather the small number of species representated. The Borates include which include the subclasses Nesoborates, Inoborates, Phylloborates and Tektoborates. These include the species Borax, Kernite, Ulexite, Colemanite, Boracite, Hambergite, Jeremejevite, Ludwigite, Hydroxylborite, Fluoborite, Canavesite, Pinakiolite, Sussexite, Szaibelyite, Pinnoite, Inderite, Tincalconite, Ezcurrite, Tunellite, Rhodizite and others. The Hydrocarbons include only nonorganic minerals and include the species of Carpathite, Kratochvilite, Evenkite, Hartite and others.
minerals in alphabetical order by first letter only
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6878
Colemanite
U.S. Borax Mine, Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern Co., California
Ex. E. Morales from J. Minette, Washinton Mineral Symposium, 1982
4.9 x 3.3 x 3.1 cm
$45
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6877
Colemanite
U.S. Borax Mine, Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern Co., California
Ex. E. Morales from J. Minette, Washinton Mineral Symposium, 1982
4.8 x 3.6 x 2.8 cm
$35
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4394
Howlite
Lang Mine, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles Co., California
Ex. Steve Pullman, Collected by Cath Stein
9.7 x 9.6 x 5.8 cm
$35
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Specimens which have this class of minerals as an associated mineral
6951
Double Terminated Colemanite Crystals on Stalactic Calcite
Extension 16, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California
Ex. E. Morales from J. Minette (mine manager at the time), November 1983
4.5 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm
$100
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6947
Etrriginite, Gaudefroyite, Barite, Quartz
N'Chwaning Mines, Northern Cape, South Africa
6.5 x 4.7 x 4.2 cm
$100
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6407
Herkimer Diamonds with Included Hydrocarbon
Herkimer, New York
Prior to 1972
3.5 x 3.2 x 2.9 cm
$50
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6914
Black Quartz with Included Pyrobitumen (aka Anthraxolite)
Ace of Diamonds Mine, Middleville, Town of Newport, Herkimer Co., New York
Collected in 1967.
5.7 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm
$50
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6434
Quartz with Included Hydrocarbons
Ace of Diamonds Mine, Middleville, Town of Newport, Herkimer Co., New York
Collected prior to 1972
8.1 x 7.8 x 4.6 cm
$75
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