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Potosi, Potosí Department

Uyuni / Salar borate and gypsum

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Ulexite (TV rock), gypsum, halite, lithium brines.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Quaternary evaporite

Salar de Uyuni, source of ulexite and lithium brine

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