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Beypazari trona field
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What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: trona, thermonatrite, glauberite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
World-class trona beds in Miocene lake shales, extracted by solution mining since 2009
The Beypazari trona deposit is a standard reference in evaporite literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
industrial area
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