Editing Kernite (section)

==Occurrence and history==
The mineral occurs in sedimentary [[evaporite]] deposits in arid regions.

Kernite was discovered in 1926 in eastern [[Kern County, California|Kern County]], in [[Southern California]],{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} and later renamed after the county. The location was the [[Pacific Coast Borax Company#U.S. Borax|US Borax Mine]] at [[Boron, California|Boron]] in the western [[Mojave Desert]]. This [[Type specimen (mineralogy)|type material]] is stored at [[Harvard University]], Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the [[National Museum of Natural History]], Washington, D.C.<ref name=HBM/>

The Kern County mine was the only known source of the mineral for a period of time. More recently, kernite is mined in [[Argentina]] and [[Turkey]].<ref name=HBM/>

The largest documented, single crystal of kernite measured 2.44 x 0.9 x 0.9 m<sup>3</sup> and weighed ~3.8 tons.<ref>{{cite journal| url = http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM66/AM66_885.pdf| journal = American Mineralogist| volume = 66| pages = 885–907| year= 1981| title= The largest crystals| author = P. C. Rickwood}}</ref>