page_title: Henry Garber Hanks
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Garber Hanks / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Hanksite Locality: Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA (Locality at mindat.org) A fine example of an evaporite mineral that is uncommon on the market, dug with great labor from the clay of ancient lake beds. This is a perfect, doubly-terminated hexagonal crystal, attached to two smaller, ALSO doubly-terminated crystals. In the light, the large crystal is actually quite transparent! 5.9 x 5.1 x 4.0 cm Deutsch: Hanksit Fundort: Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org)
context_page_description: Henry Garber Hanks was an American mineralogist. He was the first state mineralogist of California.
context_section_description: Henry G. Hanks was the namesake of hanksite, a sulfate mineral identified by William Earl Hidden based on a specimen from Searles Lake in California in 1885.
caption: A doubly-terminated hexagonal crystal of hanksite
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