Origin: Salton Sea, California, U.S.A.
Origin: Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, U.S.A.
Dealer in
fine mineral specimens
Pastel-pink halite crystals showing hoppered cubic form. The pink colour is
caused by included bacteria whose metabolic products produce the hue after the
bacteria die when included in the fast-growing salt crystals as they form in
this high-salinity lake bed.
Origin: Searles Lake, Trona, California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 30.0 x 23.1 x 8.0 cm (top), 23.0 x 15.0 x 14.5 cm (2nd/bottom
row)
Origin: Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 6.5 x 2 x 1.8 cm
Origin: near Trona, California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 18.9 x 10.2 x 6.2 cm
White to pink halite cubes some displaying hopper-growth on a matrix of
burgandy coloured botryoidal
burkeite
Origin: Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Sample size: ca. 6 x 8 cm (top), 7 x 12 cm (2nd row), 10 x 20 cm (3rd row), 15
x 22 cm (bottom)
