Dragon Minerals - August 25, 2025 Update

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44514: Hanksite - $18
Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California
Small cabinet - 8.2 x 6.1 x 5.3 cm
302 grams
Fluorescent (LW/SW)
Illustrated: Mineral Specimen Cleaning and Development for the Amateur, page 293
Specimen status: Available
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A mostly translucent hanksite crystal which has been lightly oiled for preservation. Certainly not textbook form but with the demise of the Searles Lake Mineral Club's annual Gem-O-Rama in 2018, this material is becoming much harder to find, especially not decomposed and especially in professionally-conserved condition. Fluorescent: weakly so under shortwave ultraviolet light but glows brightly under longwave (blacklight). Illustrated on page 293 of my new book Mineral Cleaning and Development for the Amateur (where you can read how it was conserved).






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