Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Ryan, Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District; Death Valley Area Borate Deposits; Ryan Area), Inyo Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 205141
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-205141.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ryan, Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District; Death Valley Area Borate Deposits; Ryan Area), Inyo Co., California, USA": 30
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 27

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
Annie Oakley Mine
Biddy McCarthy Mines
Billie Mine (Billie Group; Ryan Mine; Billie I Mine; Billie II Mine)
Boraxo Mine (Kern Borate Mine; Boraxo Deposit; Boraxo No. 1 And No. 2; Clara Claim; Thompson Mine; Tenneco Mine)
Collins Consolidated Claim
Corkscrew Canyon Mine (Corkscrew Mine)
Dantes View Road Sites No. 1 And No. 2
Debely Mine (De Bely Mine)
Grand View Mine (Grandview Mine)
Hard Scramble Claim
Inyo Mine (Inyo Prospect)
Lizzy V. Oakley (Lizzie V. Oakley Mine)
Mouth Of Corkscrew Canyon Area
Oliver Claim (Neglect Claim; Oliver Consolidated Claim)
Pearl No. 1 Occurrence
Played Out Mine
Sigma Mine (White Monster Mine; Sigma-White Monster Mine)
Unnamed Borate Prospect [27]
Unnamed Borate Prospects [16]
Unnamed Borate Prospects [17]
Unnamed Borate Prospects [21]
Unnamed Nobleite Locality [1]
Widow No. 1 Mine (Widow Mine)
Widow No. 3 Mine (New Widow)
Widow No. 7 Mine (Old Widow)

Latitude: 36°19'53"N
Longitude: 116°41'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.331388888889,-116.69

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Analcime	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Gadolinite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Smectite-vermiculite
Veatchite

Analcime ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Colemanite ()*
Datolite ()*	Ginorite ()*	Gowerite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Howlite ()*
Hungchaoite ()*	Hydroboracite ()*	Inderite ()*	Inyoite ()*	Kurnakovite ()*
Mcallisterite ()*	Meyerhofferite ()*	Mirabilite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Nobleite ()*
Priceite ()*	Probertite ()*	Rivadavite ()*	Sassolite ()*	Sborgite ()*
Strontianite ()*	Thénardite ()*	Thermonatrite ()*	Todorokite ()*	Tunellite ()*
Ulexite ()*	Veatchite ()*	Wardsmithite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al B Ba C Ca H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Gadolinite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Smectite-vermiculite
Veatchite

33 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	157545	1627
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	157537	1588
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	13	157535,157537,157538,157541,157543,157544,157545,157546,157547,157553,157554,157561,157562	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	5	157537,157538,157540,157541,157551	1252
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O	23	157533,157534,157535,157536,157537,157538,157539,157541,157543,157544,157545,157546,157547,157549,157551,157553,157554,157556,157557,157558,157560,157561,157562	144
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	3	157541,157550,157559	498
Ginorite ()*	None	Ca₂B₁₄O₂₀(OH)₆·5H₂O	1	157545	11
Gowerite ()*	None	Ca[B₅O₈(OH)][B(OH)₃]·3H₂O	4	157541,157545,157555,157559	13
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	4	157537,157541,157545,157551	6890
Howlite ()*	None	Ca₂SiB₅O₉(OH)₅	1	157537	36
Hungchaoite ()*	None	MgB₄O₅(OH)₄·7H₂O	1	157545	6
Hydroboracite ()*	None	CaMg[B₃O₄(OH)₃]₂·3H₂O	2	157538,157539	42
Inderite ()*	None	MgB₃O₃(OH)₅·5H₂O	1	157545	13
Inyoite ()*	None	CaB₃O₃(OH)₅·4H₂O	2	157541,157551	34
Kurnakovite ()*	None	MgB₃O₃(OH)₅·5H₂O	1	157545	15
Mcallisterite ()*	None	Mg₂[B₆O₇(OH)₆]₂·9H₂O	1	157545	9
Meyerhofferite ()*	None	CaB₃O₃(OH)₅·H₂O	3	157541,157545,157551	23
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	1	157545	223
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	157545	1508
Nobleite ()*	None	CaB₆O₉(OH)₂·3H₂O	4	157541,157545,157559,157561	11
Priceite ()*	None	Ca₂B₅O₇(OH)₅·H₂O	4	157538,157545,157549,157551	33
Probertite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₇(OH)₄·3H₂O	6	157534,157536,157537,157538,157560,157562	29
Rivadavite ()*	None	Na₆Mg[B₆O₇(OH)₆]₄·10H₂O	1	157545	4
Sassolite ()*	None	B(OH)₃	1	157536	31
Sborgite ()*	None	NaB₅O₆(OH)₄·3H₂O	2	157545,157561	6
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	157537	589
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	157545	299
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O	1	157561	64
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	2	157541,157559	433
Tunellite ()*	None	SrB₆O₉(OH)₂·3H₂O	1	157538	12
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	14	157534,157536,157537,157538,157541,157545,157546,157549,157551,157553,157554,157560,157561,157562	160
Veatchite ()*	Veatchite	Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅·H₂O	1	157537	12
Wardsmithite ()*	None	Ca₅Mg(B₄O₇)₆·30H₂O	2	157545,157551	5

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060496	Upper Biddy Mine (Upper Biddy McCarthy Mine; Big Biddy Mine), Biddy McCarthy Mines, Ryan, Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District; Death Valley Area Borate Deposits; Ryan Area), Inyo Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R060496
R060348	Billie Mine (Billie Group; Ryan Mine; Billie I Mine; Billie II Mine), Ryan, Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District; Death Valley Area Borate Deposits; Ryan Area), Inyo Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R060348
R050423	Corkscrew Canyon Mine (Corkscrew Mine), Ryan, Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District; Death Valley Area Borate Deposits; Ryan Area), Inyo Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R050423
R060847	Hard Scramble Claim, Ryan, Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District; Death Valley Area Borate Deposits; Ryan Area), Inyo Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R060847

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