| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from California > Halite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 65176 |
| Mineral: | Halite |
| Locality: | Searles Lake, east of Trona, San Bernardino County, California |
| Description: | Large cluster of many pale-pink cubic halite crystals. The halite crystals exhibit hoppered habit, with parallel depressed center faces and prominent edge faces. The pink color is caused by archaea organisms in the solution before halite crystallized. Ex. D. Miller collection #M1281. Water soluble |
| Overall Size: | 8.5x8x7 cm |
| Crystals: | 5-24 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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