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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 82339 |
| Mineral: | Halite |
| Locality: | Soda Lake, 103 km east of San Luis Obispo, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California |
| Description: | Lustrous transparent-to-translucent colorless cubic halite crystals on an earlier generation of smaller halite crystals. This halite specimen is not from the common Searles Lake deposit, but from the little-collected Soda Dry Lake locality. Fluoresces under LW and SW ultraviolet illumination. Ex. Miller collection T3646; ex. Betts #77602; originally acquired in August 1998 from Al Rose (Fallbrook, Ca.) |
| Overall Size: | 2.5x2x1.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-10 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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