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Veatchite

A valid IMA mineral species - grandfathered

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Veatchite

Lang Mine, Tick Canyon Borate deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Veatchite

Billie Mine, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District, Inyo County, California, USA

Veatchite-A

Lang Mine, Tick Canyon Borate deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Veatchite

Lang Mine, Tick Canyon Borate deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Veatchite

Billie Mine, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District, Inyo County, California, USA

Veatchite-A

Lang Mine, Tick Canyon Borate deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Veatchite

Lang Mine, Tick Canyon Borate deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Veatchite

Billie Mine, Ryan, Furnace Creek Mining District, Inyo County, California, USA

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About VeatchiteHide

John A. Veatch

Formula:

Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · H₂O

Colour:

Colourless, white

Lustre:

Vitreous, Silky, Pearly

Hardness:

Specific Gravity:

2.58 - 2.69

Crystal System:

Monoclinic

Name:

Named in honor of John Allen Veatch (5 March 1808, Knox County, Kentucky, USA - 24 April 1870, Portland, Texas, USA), surgeon, surveyor, and scientist. He was the first person to detect boron in the mineral waters of California in 1856.

Type Locality:

ⓘ Lang Mine, Tick Canyon Borate deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles County, California, USA

The three known polytypes of veatchite (1A, 1M, 2M) are described by Grice & Pring (2012).

The SrCa-ordered analogue is called calcioveatchite.

Unique IdentifiersHide

Mindat ID:

4166

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:1:4166:5

Similar NamesHide

P-Veatchite	A synonym of 'Veatchite-1M'
Veatchit-2M	A synonym of 'Veatchite-2M'
Veatchit-A	A synonym of 'Veatchite-A'

IMA Classification of VeatchiteHide

IMA status:

Approved, 'Grandfathered' (first described prior to 1959)

IMA Formula:

Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅·H₂O

First published:

1938

Type description reference:

Switzer, George (1938) Veatchite, a new calcium borate from Lang, California. American Mineralogist, 23 (6) 409-411

Classification of VeatchiteHide

Strunz-mindat (2026):

6.EC.15

6 : BORATES
E : Pentaborates
C : Phyllo-pentaborates

Dana 8th ed.:

26.5.9.1

26 : HYDRATED BORATES CONTAINING HYDROXYL OR HALOGEN
5 : Pentaborates

Hey's CIM Ref.:

9.3.27

9 : Borates
3 : Borates of Ca and Sr

Mineral SymbolsHide

As of 2021 there are now IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols (abbreviations) for each mineral species, useful for tables and diagrams.

Symbol	Source	Reference for Standard
Vea	IMA–CNMNC	Warr, L.N. (2021). IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols. Mineralogical Magazine, 85(3), 291-320. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43

Physical Properties of VeatchiteHide

Lustre:

Vitreous, Silky, Pearly

Transparency:

Transparent, Translucent

Comment:

pearly on cleavages; silky in fibrous masses

Colour:

Colourless, white

Streak:

White

Hardness:

2 on Mohs scale

Cleavage:

Perfect
On {010} perfect; on {001} imperfect.

Density:

2.58 - 2.69 g/cm³ (Measured) 2.59 g/cm³ (Calculated)

Optical Data of VeatchiteHide

Type:

Biaxial (+)

RI values:

n_α = 1.551 n_β = 1.553 n_γ = 1.62

2V:

Measured: 37° , Calculated: 22°

Max. Birefringence:

δ = 0.069
Based on recorded range of RI values above.

Interference Colours:
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Thickness: 30 µm Order divisions

Rotation:

Surface Relief:

Moderate (positive)
Relative to Canada balsam mounting medium (n ≈ 1.537).

This shows the grain boundary and Becke line effect under plane-polarised light, based on the contrast between this mineral's average refractive index and the mounting medium. It does not take into account mineral colouration.

Focus:

In focus

Interference Figure:

This shows the idealized biaxial acute bisectrix (Bxa) interference figure - the conoscopic view for a grain cut perpendicular to the acute bisectrix, using this mineral's 2V. The two small white dots mark the melatopes - the points where the two optic axes emerge - and are shown only when they fall within the field of view. The coloured bands are isochromatics, and the dark bands are isogyres.

Rotate the stage: at 0°/90° the isogyres form a cross through the melatopes; at 45° they pull apart into curved hyperbolas. That splitting on rotation - absent in a uniaxial figure - is the standard diagnostic test for telling biaxial minerals from uniaxial ones. If 2V is large, the melatopes may fall outside the field of view, as they often do at the microscope too.

Thickness: 30 µm

Stage rotation: 0°

Dispersion:

r < v strong

Chemistry of VeatchiteHide

Mindat Formula:

Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · H₂O

Element Weights:

Element	% weight
O	53.886 %
Sr	26.828 %
B	18.206 %
H	1.080 %

Calculated from ideal end-member formula.

Elements listed:

B, H, O, Sr - search for minerals with similar chemistry

Crystallography of VeatchiteHide

Polytype:

Formula:

Crystal System:

Class (H-M)

Space Group:

Space Group Setting:

Cell Parameters:

Ratio:

Unit Cell Volume (calc):

Comment:

Veatchite-1M	Veatchite-2M	Veatchite-A
Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · H₂O	Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · H₂O	Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · H₂O
Monoclinic	Monoclinic	Triclinic
2 - Sphenoidal	m - Domatic	1 - Pedial
P2₁	Bb	P1
P2₁	Cc
a = 6.7127(4) Å, b = 20.704(1) Å, c = 6.6272(4) Å β = 119.209(1)°	a = 6.6070(3) Å, b = 11.7125(5) Å, c = 20.6848(9) Å β = 91.998(1)°	a = 6.7378(6) Å, b = 6.7387(6) Å, c = 20.982(2) Å α = 87.860(1)°, β = 82.696(12)°, γ = 60.476(1)°
a:b:c = 0.324 : 1 : 0.32	a:b:c = 0.564 : 1 : 1.766	a:b:c = 1 : 1 : 3.114
V 803.93 Å³ (Calculated from Unit Cell)	V 1,599.71 Å³ (Calculated from Unit Cell)	V 821.88 Å³ (Calculated from Unit Cell)
2	4	2

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ID	Species	Reference	Year	Locality	Temp (K)
0018912	Veatchite	Grice J D, Pring A (2012) Veatchite: structural relationships of the three polytypes American Mineralogist 97 489-495	2012	Penobsquis deposit, Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada	293
0018911	Veatchite	Grice J D, Pring A (2012) Veatchite: structural relationships of the three polytypes American Mineralogist 97 489-495	2012	Konigshall-Hindenburg potash-salt mine, Reyershausen, Germany	293
0018910	Veatchite	Grice J D, Pring A (2012) Veatchite: structural relationships of the three polytypes American Mineralogist 97 489-495	2012	Emet deposit, Kutahya, Turkey	293
0018907	Veatchite	Rumanova I M, Gandymov O (1971) The crystal structure of the natural strontium borate, p-veatchite, Sr2[B5O8(OH)]2B(OH)3H2O Soviet Physics Crystallography 16 75-81	1971	Inderskii formation, Kazakh SSR	293
0000265	Veatchite	Clark J R, Christ C L (1971) Veatchite: Crystal structure and correlations with p-veatchite American Mineralogist 56 1934-1954	1971	old colemanite mine, Lang, Los Angeles County, California, USA	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to close

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 Veatchite: structural relationships of the three polytypes
 Note: moderate-T, high-P polytype veatchite-2M
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Sr2   0.90046  -0.03728   0.59967   0.48000   0.01406
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B10   0.39190   0.26032   0.74332   1.00000   0.01050
B11   0.94270   0.48615   0.06241   1.00000   0.01060
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O2   0.97564   0.52665   0.72366   1.00000   0.01310
O3   0.82396   0.07215   0.70928   1.00000   0.01130
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O-h5   0.92650   0.39053   0.83304   1.00000   0.03070
O-h6   0.91950   0.28373   0.93207   1.00000   0.03470
O7   0.85940  -0.25133   0.57949   1.00000   0.01300
O8   0.24678   0.05615   0.58803   1.00000   0.01330
O9   0.00892   0.20200   0.59045   1.00000   0.01240
O10   0.23158   0.17507   0.72737   1.00000   0.01260
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O12   0.60609   0.09991   0.57796   1.00000   0.01240
O13   0.69558   0.30054   0.58479   1.00000   0.01320
O14   0.91460   0.30444   0.49212   1.00000   0.01540
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O17   0.41150   0.27265   0.81443   1.00000   0.01450
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O21   0.33308   0.36744   0.71303   1.00000   0.01110
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H5   0.90800   0.45400   0.84690   1.00000   0.02800
H6   0.87500   0.33300   0.94770   1.00000   0.04500
H15   0.41000   0.14500   0.87390   1.00000   0.03000
H19   0.88500   0.17400   0.43060   1.00000   0.06200
H221   0.90500  -0.02600   0.46630   1.00000   0.03000
H222   0.88600  -0.13100   0.47790   1.00000   0.01200
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Ca1 0.00968 0.00849 0.01550 -0.00026 0.00143 -0.00014
Sr2 0.01432 0.01208 0.01587 0.00055 0.00185 -0.00099
Ca2 0.01432 0.01208 0.01587 0.00055 0.00185 -0.00099
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B2 0.02110 0.01340 0.01730 0.00320 0.00350 0.00040
B3 0.00920 0.01280 0.01310 0.00170 0.00110 0.00070
B4 0.01000 0.01010 0.01670 0.00150 -0.00100 0.00150
B5 0.01050 0.01240 0.01170 0.00250 0.00180 -0.00250
B6 0.02400 0.01000 0.01550 -0.00050 0.00040 -0.00150
B7 0.01720 0.01770 0.01380 -0.00010 0.00330 -0.00150
B8 0.01020 0.00380 0.01730 -0.00120 0.00150 -0.00110
B9 0.00980 0.01100 0.01200 0.00110 0.00420 0.00120
B10 0.01160 0.00820 0.01210 0.00010 0.00380 -0.00140
B11 0.00990 0.00580 0.01600 0.00040 -0.00060 0.00010
O1 0.01140 0.00670 0.02160 0.00200 0.00210 -0.00280
O2 0.00970 0.00840 0.02150 0.00300 0.00300 0.00110
O3 0.01090 0.00640 0.01690 0.00240 0.00260 0.00330
O-h4 0.04360 0.01120 0.02070 0.00080 0.00170 -0.00210
O-h5 0.06350 0.01220 0.01660 -0.00220 0.00250 -0.00120
O-h6 0.07510 0.01400 0.01520 0.00130 0.00580 -0.00140
O7 0.01280 0.00530 0.02080 -0.00170 0.00100 -0.00080
O8 0.00930 0.00920 0.02150 0.00050 0.00190 0.00070
O9 0.00960 0.00920 0.01860 0.00200 0.00180 0.00340
O10 0.01130 0.00590 0.02050 -0.00200 0.00040 0.00030
O11 0.00880 0.00840 0.02240 -0.00070 0.00250 -0.00120
O12 0.01040 0.00720 0.01970 0.00080 0.00080 0.00020
O13 0.00980 0.00810 0.02200 0.00160 0.00350 -0.00060
O14 0.02400 0.01110 0.01120 -0.00390 0.00120 -0.00140
O-h15 0.07000 0.01320 0.01530 0.00350 0.00290 0.00230
O16 0.02430 0.00940 0.01290 -0.00180 -0.00050 0.00100
O17 0.02310 0.00790 0.01270 -0.00010 0.00230 0.00100
O18 0.02220 0.00710 0.01420 0.00150 -0.00030 -0.00170
O-h19 0.06450 0.00910 0.01350 0.00070 0.00200 -0.00050
O20 0.01040 0.00920 0.01190 -0.00080 -0.00060 -0.00020
O21 0.01240 0.00500 0.01570 0.00050 0.00040 0.00060
OW22 0.06060 0.01290 0.02530 0.00020 0.00520 0.00300

X-Ray Powder DiffractionHide

Powder Diffraction Data:

d-spacing	Intensity
10.5 Å	(100)
3.32 Å	(35)
2.600 Å	(25)
3.47 Å	(20)
2.865 Å	(9)
5.64 Å	(6)
5.12 Å	(6)

Geological EnvironmentHide

Paragenetic Mode(s):

Paragenetic Mode	Earliest Age (Ga)
Near-surface Processes
25 : Evaporites (prebiotic)

Type Occurrence of VeatchiteHide

Type Locality:

ⓘ Lang Mine, Tick Canyon Borate deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles County, California, USA

General Appearance of Type Material:

Cross-fiber veinlets cutting limestone and howlite and as crystals deposited on colemanite.

Place of Conservation of Type Material:

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 92944; National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 105697.

Geological Setting of Type Material:

Limestone and borate deposit.

Associated Minerals at Type Locality:

Colemanite

Howlite

Reference:

Switzer, George (1938) Veatchite, a new calcium borate from Lang, California. American Mineralogist, 23 (6) 409-411

Synonyms of VeatchiteHide

Veatchite Group

Other Language Names for VeatchiteHide

Dutch:Veatchiet

German:Veatchit

Russian:Витчит

Simplified Chinese:水硼锶石

Spanish:Veatchita

Traditional Chinese:水硼鍶石

Common AssociatesHide

Associations Based on Photo Data:

24 photos of Veatchite associated with Colemanite	Ca[B₃O₄(OH)₃] · H₂O
1 photo of Veatchite associated with Celestine	SrSO₄

Related Minerals - Strunz-mindat Grouping Hide

6.EC.	Calcioveatchite	SrCaB₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · 5H₂O	Mon. 2 : P2₁
6.EC.05	Nasinite	Na₂[B₅O₈(OH)] · 2H₂O	Orth. mmm(2/m2/m2/m)
6.EC.05	Biringuccite	Na₂B₅O₈(OH) · H₂O	Mon. 2/m : P2₁/b
6.EC.10	Gowerite	Ca[B₅O₈(OH)][B(OH)₃] · 3H₂O	Mon. 2/m : P2₁/b
6.EC.15	'Veatchite-2M'	Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · H₂O	Mon. m : Bb
6.EC.15	'Veatchite-A'	Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · H₂O	Tric. 1 : P1
6.EC.15	'Veatchite-1M'	Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅ · H₂O	Mon. 2 : P2₁
6.EC.20	Volkovskite	KCa₄[B₅O₈OH]₄[B(OH)₃]₂Cl · 4H₂O	Tric. 1 : P1
6.EC.25	Tuzlaite	NaCaB₅O₈(OH)₂ · 3H₂O	Mon. 2/m : P2₁/b
6.EC.30	Heidornite	Na₂Ca₃B₅O₈(SO₄)₂Cl(OH)₂	Mon. 2/m : B2/b
6.EC.35	Popugaevaite	Ca₃[B₅O₆(OH)₆]FCl₂ · 8H₂O	Mon. m : Pm
6.EC.35	Brianroulstonite	Ca₃[B₅O₆(OH)₆](OH)Cl₂ · 8H₂O	Mon. m

Other InformationHide

IR Spectrum:

Inder material [cm^-1]: 3440, 3340, 3280sh, 3230sh, 3105, 1650w, 1490, 1435sh, 1372s, 1265s, 1102s, 1071s, 992s, 962, 936s, 857, 823s, 769, 703, 677w, 641w, 631, 606, 570w, 489w, 478w, 460w

Health Risks:

No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

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References for VeatchiteHide

Reference List:

Switzer, George (1938) Veatchite, a new calcium borate from Lang, California. American Mineralogist, 23 (6) 409-411

Murdoch, Joseph (1939) Crystallography of veatchite. American Mineralogist, 24 (2) 130-135

Switzer, George, Brannock, W. W. (1950) Composition of veatchite. American Mineralogist, 35 (1-2) 90-92

Palache, Charles; Berman, Harry; Frondel, Clifford (1951) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Etc. John Wiley and Sons.pp.348-349

Kramer, Henry, Allen, Robert D. (1956) A restudy of bakerite, priceite, and veatchite. American Mineralogist, 41 (9-10) 689-700

Clark, J. R., Mrose, M. E., Perloff, A., Burley, G. (1959) Studies of borate minerals. (VI); Investigation of Veatchite. American Mineralogist, 44 (11-12) 1141-1149

Clark, J. R., Mrose, M. E. (1960) Veatchite and ρ-veatchite. American Mineralogist, 45 (11-12) 1221-1229

Clark, Joan R., Christ, C. L. (1971) Veatchite: Crystal structure and correlations to p-veatchite. American Mineralogist, 56 (11-12) 1934-1954

Grew, Edward S.; Anovitz, Lawrence M. - Eds. (1996) Boron - Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry. Reviews in Mineralogy Vol. 33. Mineralogical Society of America p.862

Grice, Joel D., Burns, Peter C., Hawthorne, Frank C. (1999) Borate minerals. II. A hierarchy of structures based upon the borate fundamental building block. The Canadian Mineralogist, 37 (3) 731-762

(2005) Veatchite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America

Grice, J. D., Pring, A. (2012) Veatchite: Structural relationships of the three polytypes. American Mineralogist, 97 (4) 489-495 doi:10.2138/am.2012.3889

Chukanov, Nikita V. (2014) Springer Geochemistry/Mineralogy - Infrared spectra of mineral species. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7128-4

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- World class for species or very significant. (TL) - Type Locality for a valid mineral species. (FRL) - First Recorded Locality for everything else (eg varieties). ~~Struck out~~ - Mineral was erroneously reported from this locality. Faded * - Never found at this locality but inferred to have existed at some point in the past (e.g. from pseudomorphs).

All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.


Canada
New Brunswick Kings Co. Cardwell Parish ⓘ Penobsquis	Grice et al. (2005)
ⓘ Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Mine (PCS Mine; Potash Corporation of America Mine)	Grice (2002)

Germany
Lower Saxony Göttingen District Bovenden Reyershausen ⓘ Königshall-Hindenburg mine	[Veatchite-1M] Braitsch (1969)
Thuringia Nordhausen District Harztor Niedersachswerfen ⓘ Kohnstein Quarry	[Veatchite-1M] Siemroth (2008)

Kazakhstan
Atyrau Region Inder District ⓘ Inder B deposit and salt dome	Pekov et al. (1993) +1 other reference
West Kazakhstan Region ⓘ Shoktybay Salt Dome	Tony Nikischer specimen and analysis +1 other reference
Terekti District Aksai Valley ⓘ Chelkar salt dome	Pekov et al. (2024)

Mexico
Sonora Mazatan Municipality ⓘ Mazatan basin	Miranda-Gasca et al. (1998) +1 other reference

Russia
Irkutsk Oblast Lower Tunguska Nepa River basin ⓘ Nepskoe K salt deposit	[Veatchite-1M] Pekov et al. (2024)

Serbia
Central Serbia Raška District Raška Jarandol Basin Baljevac na Ibru ⓘ Pobrdzhsky Potok & Peskanya deposits	Malinko et al. (2004)

Turkey
Kütahya Province Emet District Emet Borate deposit ⓘ Emet Eti Bor Mine ("Killik Mine"; "Kilik Mine"; Espey mine)	[Veatchite-A] American Mineralogist +4 other references
ⓘ Hisarcik Mine	[Veatchite-A] American Mineralogist +4 other references

UK
England North Yorkshire Redcar and Cleveland Loftus ⓘ Boulby Mine	[Veatchite-1M] Milne (1978)
Scarborough Aislaby ⓘ Eskdale No. 2 borehole (Aislaby)	[Veatchite-1M] Beevers et al. (1960)
ⓘ Whitby	[Veatchite-1M] Smith et al. (2014)

USA
California Inyo County Furnace Creek Mining District (Furnace Creek Borate Mining District) Ryan ⓘ Billie Mine	[Veatchite-1M] Chandler (1996) +1 other reference
Kern County Boron Kramer Borate deposit ⓘ Rio Tinto Borax Mine
Los Angeles County Lang Tick Canyon Tick Canyon Borate deposit ⓘ Lang Mine	[Veatchite-A] Bernard et al. (2004)
San Bernardino County East Kramer Mining District East Kramer Borate area (East Kramer Colemanite area) Kramer Junction (Beecher's Corners; Beechers Corners; Four Corners) ⓘ Four Corners No. 3; 4 & 5 wells	Clark et al. (1959) +2 other references
ⓘ Test Hole No. 5	Benda (1960) +2 other references
Utah Grand County ⓘ Paradox Basin	Omer B. Raup and Beth M. Madsen (1986)

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