Inder B deposit and salt dome

Mindat lists over 50 minerals from the site, as well as 7 for which it is the type locality – hydroboracite, inderborite, inderite, kurgantaite, kurnakovite, preobrazhenskite, and volkovskite.

The site is probably best known by collectors of microminerals – or anyone with a great interest in borate minerals, I guess!

There are numerous sublocalities, most in the form of ‘Deposit no. 33’, and I’ve decided it will be easier to consolidate everything here.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-2217.html
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Inder_B_Deposit_and_Salt_Dome

We might have some specimens from other Kazakh locales too;

Kazakhstani locales

• Inder B deposit and salt dome, Inder District, Atyrau Region, Kazakhstan

For other specimens from Kazakhstan, see the links below.

Kazakhstan