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Calcite from
Saline Valley, Inyo County, California, USA


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Occurs in sediments.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Saline Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1004367
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1004367:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Calcite in this Region
Unnamed Mn-W occurrence [1], Saline Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
18.1km (11.2 miles) ⓘElla Mine (Ella group), Cerro Gordo, Cerro Gordo Mining District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) ⓘCerro Gordo Mine, Cerro Gordo, Cerro Gordo Mining District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) ⓘReward Mine, Reward, Russ Mining District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
21.7km (13.5 miles) ⓘUbehebe Mine [1](Copper Bell Mine; Ubehebe Lead Mine), Teakettle Junction, Ubehebe Mining District, Cottonwood Mountains, Panamint Range (Panamint Mountains), Inyo County, California, USA
23.2km (14.4 miles) ⓘCopper Queen-Lucky Boy Mine (Copper Queen Mine), Summit 2347 meters, Nelson Range, Lee Mining District, Inyo County, California, USA
28.6km (17.8 miles) ⓘSnowcaps Mine (Sunshine Snocaps Mine), Kearsarge, Kearsarge Mining District [2], Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
28.7km (17.8 miles) ⓘSettle Up prospect (Settle Up group), Little Dodd Spring, Ubehebe Mining District, Cottonwood Mountains, Panamint Range (Panamint Mountains), Inyo County, California, USA
32.8km (20.4 miles) ⓘSanta Rosa Mine (Lee-Santa Rosa Mine; Santa Rosa Mines), Malpais Mesa, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
42.8km (26.6 miles) ⓘOwens Lake, Olancha, Owens Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
46.6km (29.0 miles) ⓘDarwin Iceland Spar Mine, Ophir Mountain, Darwin Mining District, Darwin Hills, Inyo County, California, USA
References
Hardie, L.A. (1968) The origin of the Recent nonmarine evaporate deposit of Saline Valley, Inyo County, California. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: 32: 1287
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983) Minerals of California. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc.
Cahit Helvaci, Federico Ortí, Javier García-Veigas, Laura Rosell, Ibrahim Gündoğan (2012). Neogene Borate Deposits: Mineralogy, Petrology and Sedimentology; A workshop with special emphasis on the Anatolian deposits International Earth Science Colloquium on the Aegean Region (IESCA-2012, İzmir, Turkey), 64 pp.
 
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