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| | Lee A. Groat - Bigcreekite and Kampfite |
 | | The sanbornite deposits at Big Creek and Rush Creek, Fresno County, California are host to many rare barium silicates. |
 | | The Big Creek site is the type locality for alforsite, bigcreekite and walstromite, and is known for a number of rare Ba-bearing minerals including anandite, bazirite, benitoite, celsian, gillespite, fresnoite, macdonaldite, muirite, pellyite, titantaramellite and verplanckite (Alfors et al. |
 | | Several new minerals are currently under study from both deposits. |
| www.eos.ubc.ca /personal/groat/bigcreekitekampfite.htm (809 words) |
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