Searles Lake
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Searles Lake is an endorheic dry lake in the Searles Valley of the Mojave Desert, in northwestern San Bernardino County, California. The lake in the past was also called Slate Range Lake and Borax Lak
Searles Lake playa bounded by the Argus and Slate Mountains
Trona, California, abuts northwest of the dry Searles Lake bed.
Hanksite, Na22K(SO4)9(CO3)2Cl, one of the few minerals that is considered a carbonate and a sulfate
Pink halite (rock salt) crystals from Searles Lake. Matrix is minute nahcolite (bicarbonate of soda). Specimen size: 13.5 x 7.7 x 5.2 cm.
Potash wars (California)
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The Potash wars were a series of conflicts over mineral rights that took place from 1910 to 1915 in the Searles Valley near Searles Lake, a dry lake, near the present-day town of Trona in San Bernardi
Stafford Wallace Austin and wife Mary Hunter Austin in 1910
Dennis Searles in 1890 at Searles Lake