Broad alkaline playa and historic borax source in southwestern Mineral County, now part of the Marietta Wild Burro Management Area on BLM land. Late-19th-century borax works fed early Pacific Coast markets; today the white flats, residual earthworks, and free-roaming burros make a stark geology-and-landscape stop west of the Candelaria–Marietta country. Collecting focus is landscape/geology interpretation, not unprotected diggings.
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| Region | Mineral County, NV |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 38.2058, -118.3562 |
| Land | BLM Marietta Wild Burro Area / public land |
| Geology | Alkali playa / evaporite basin |
| History | 19th-c. borax production |
| Nearby | Marietta ghost town ~4–5 km NE |
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