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.
Northupite
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Northupite is an uncommon evaporite mineral, with the chemical formula Na3Mg2Cl. It occurs as colourless to dark grey or brown octahedral crystals and as globular masses. In synthetic material it form
Northupite octahedra