Salton Sea

The lake began to shrink in the 90s as agriculture used more and more water, and this led to toxic dust and air quality problems – a more complex issue than I would be able to describe here, but the Wikipedia page linked below has a good writeup.

Mindat lists 55 minerals from the site, one of which it is the type locality for – saltonseaite. The most common mineral is likely to be halite, of course.

Further reading

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea
• https://www.mindat.org/loc-463.html

We may have specimens from specific locales around California including:

• Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
• Monterey formation, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
• New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
• Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, USA

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