Mineral Evolution Database

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

mindat Locality ID: 211743
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-211743.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Biddy McCarthy Mines, Ryan, Furnace Creek District (Furnace Creek Borate District; Death Valley Area Borate Deposits; Ryan Area), Inyo Co., California, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Lower Biddy McCarthy Mine (Little Biddy Mine)
Upper Biddy Mine (Upper Biddy McCarthy Mine; Big Biddy Mine)

Latitude: 36°19'6"N
Longitude: 116°40'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.318333333333,-116.67222222222

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.

Calcite	None

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: B C Ca H Na O

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite None

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Colemanite ()*	Probertite ()*	Sassolite ()*	Ulexite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	157535	27770
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O	2	157535,157536	144
Probertite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₇(OH)₄·3H₂O	1	157536	29
Sassolite ()*	None	B(OH)₃	1	157536	31
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	1	157536	160

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

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