Trona
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Trona is a non-marine evaporite mineral. It is mined as the primary source of sodium carbonate in the United States, where it has replaced the Solvay process used in most of the rest of the world for
Trona sample from Searles Valley, California near the town of Trona, California
The ambient temperature crystal structure of trona viewed down the b axis with the unit cell indicated by the solid gray line.
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.