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Gypsum from
Kunteyi salt lake, Lenghu Co., Mangnai City (Mangya Co.), Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China


Locality type:Lake
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kunteyi salt lake, Lenghu Co., Mangnai City (Mangya Co.), Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:720236
Long-form Identifier:1:3:720236:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
78.9km (49.0 miles) ⓘYiliping salt lake, Lenghu Co., Mangnai City (Mangya Co.), Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China
86.4km (53.7 miles) ⓘMahai lake, Da Qaidam (Dachaidan Co.), Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China
References
Shaoxiu, Yang (1991) Saline Deposits And Minerals Of Salt Lakes In Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Journal of Lake Sciences, 3 (1). 1-10 doi:10.18307/1991.0101
Mianping Zheng (1997): An Introduction to Saline Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht, NL), 319 pp.
 
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