and assets of the present day Searles Valley Minerals Inc. have a long and varied history. When John Wemple Searles arrived in the area in the 1860s...
11 KB (1,174 words) - 19:45, 3 August 2024
million tons annually of industrial minerals within the basin to the Searles Valley Minerals mining operations. Searles Lake is bounded by the Argus and...
11 KB (918 words) - 12:59, 10 October 2024
landform features of Searles Lake and the Trona Pinnacles. The valley was named after John Wemple Searles. The Searles Valley Minerals company town of Trona...
2 KB (191 words) - 16:24, 14 July 2024
Trona, San Bernardino County, California (category Searles Valley)
western edge of Searles Lake, a dry lake bed in Searles Valley, southwest of Death Valley. The town takes its name from the mineral trona, abundant in...
23 KB (1,906 words) - 23:43, 13 August 2024
Potash wars (California) (redirect from John Wemple Searles)
Dennis Searles discovered borax at Searles Lake while looking for gold with the Dr. S.G. George party. Searles and Dennis filed claims for the minerals in...
21 KB (2,735 words) - 11:01, 10 October 2024
November 2007, Nirma purchased American raw materials company Searles Valley Minerals Inc., making it among the top seven soda ash manufacturers in the...
6 KB (488 words) - 15:28, 27 July 2024
382803). Searles Valley CDP is at the western edge of Searles Lake, a dry lakebed in the lowest part of the Searles Valley. Searles Valley CDP is about...
14 KB (1,530 words) - 08:18, 8 December 2024
Trona Railway (category Searles Valley)
ownership of Searles Valley Minerals, Inc. On Dec. 27 2007, Karnavati Holdings, a subsidiary of Nirma Limited, acquired all of Searles Valley Minerals, Inc.[citation...
9 KB (1,047 words) - 20:07, 21 March 2024
pentahydrate (Na2B4O7·5H2O). It is produced by the Searles Valley Minerals company from minerals mined at Searles Lake. It has most of the same uses as borax...
905 bytes (82 words) - 10:23, 13 August 2018
corporate headquarters in Ridgecrest. The Searles Valley Minerals plant is located adjacent to the Searles Dry Lake near the town of Trona, California...
41 KB (3,436 words) - 02:38, 6 December 2024
maintained by Searles Lake Gem and Mineral Society, but owned by Searles Valley Minerals, Inc. California Historical Landmarks in Inyo County History of...
6 KB (311 words) - 22:42, 28 August 2024
1,500,000 tonnes/year in 2006 included Searles Valley Minerals (California, US), Airborne Industrial Minerals (Saskatchewan, Canada), Química del Rey...
28 KB (2,850 words) - 21:09, 18 December 2024
Trona (category Sodium minerals)
as a food additive. Rio Tinto – Owens Lake Magadi Soda Company Searles Valley Minerals Inc. Solvay Tata Chemicals Genesis Alkali formerly Tronox Alkali...
13 KB (1,237 words) - 10:13, 10 December 2024
at Searles Lake, California. In 1997 about two-thirds of world sodium sulfate production was recovered from brine. Two plants in the US, at Searles Lake...
35 KB (3,558 words) - 10:05, 29 November 2024
Pacific Coast Borax Company (category Searles Valley)
from Searles Lake in the Searles Valley, building the company town of Westend and a siding on the Trona Railway for shipping to the railhead at Searles, California...
12 KB (1,318 words) - 01:56, 11 July 2024
Francis Marion Smith (category Death Valley)
Nevada, he acquired mineral rights to a large section of Searles Lake in the Searles Valley over the Panamint Range from Death Valley, in northern San Bernardino...
22 KB (2,482 words) - 18:25, 21 December 2024
June 21, 2020. "Antelope Valley Station". Lignite Energy Council. November 28, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2020. "Antelope Valley Station – Basin Electric...
174 KB (6,864 words) - 03:07, 21 December 2024
and Western Railway (FWRY) Napa Valley Wine Train (NVRR) Niles Canyon Railway (NCRY) Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad Port of Los Angeles Waterfront...
52 KB (856 words) - 17:05, 20 December 2024
plant in 2007. Searles Lake has yielded chemicals since borate minerals were harvested from the surface of the lake bed in 1874. Mineral recovery from...
10 KB (1,324 words) - 15:22, 24 October 2024
Francisco Wheelabrator Shasta Stockton Desert View Argus The Geysers Imperial Valley Coso Castaic Helms Oroville Diablo Canyon Alamitos Ormond Redondo Solar...
158 KB (6,802 words) - 22:01, 13 December 2024
continued through basins down the Owens River Valley, through Searles and China Lakes and the Panamint Valley, to the immediate west. As the area turned...
44 KB (4,069 words) - 14:26, 17 December 2024
Searlesite (category Searles Valley)
borosilicate mineral, with the chemical formula NaBSi2O5(OH)2. It was discovered in 1914 at Searles Lake, California, and was named to honor John W. Searles (16...
4 KB (254 words) - 07:26, 19 October 2024
Analcime (category Sodium minerals)
Analcime-bearing tuffs are sometimes used as building materials. List of minerals – List of minerals with Wikipedia articles Normand, Charles; Tarassoff, Peter (2006)...
10 KB (959 words) - 14:12, 17 December 2024
Hanksite (category Carbonate minerals)
not complex in structure. It is often found in Searles Lake, Soda Lake, Mono Lake, and in Death Valley. At its deposits in San Bernardino County, California...
4 KB (299 words) - 19:42, 15 August 2024
The range forms the western boundary of Panamint Valley, and the northwestern boundary of Searles Valley. The Coso Range is located to the west, and the...
4 KB (348 words) - 20:11, 20 September 2024
a new mineral from Searles Lake, California" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 16 (4): 133–139. Foshag, William F. (1935). "Burkeite, a new mineral species...
6 KB (574 words) - 08:29, 6 June 2024
subsurface of dry lakes are often exploited for valuable minerals in solution. See, for example, Searles Dry Lake and Lithium resources. Under United States...
14 KB (1,701 words) - 23:20, 20 October 2024
Epsom Salts Monorail (category Death Valley)
then transported by the Trona Railway to the sidings at Magnesia near Searles. Construction began in 1922 and by September they had passed the half-way...
10 KB (1,063 words) - 17:50, 10 June 2024
any of the various minerals that were found on the mine floor or that could be hammered loose from the walls of the pit. The mineral deposits found in...
9 KB (985 words) - 18:40, 6 October 2024
Lodestone (category Iron(II,III) minerals)
devil were in them." Hurlbut, Cornelius Searle; W. Edwin Sharp; Edward Salisbury Dana (1998). Dana's minerals and how to study them. John Wiley and Sons...
15 KB (1,577 words) - 00:43, 21 October 2024