Colemanite, named after W.T. Coleman of San Francisco, is a hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colourless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California. It is a major source of borax and has a relative hardness of 5. It occurs in high temperature hydrothermal veins or disseminated in metamorphic rocks associated with other cobalt and nickel sulphides/arsenides.
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