Geology

Teels Marsh

Mineral County, NV

Approximate location — plotted from published sources, not a site visit, and not a guarantee of access.

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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RegionMineral County, NV
Coordinates (approx.)38.2058, -118.3562
LandBLM Marietta Wild Burro Area / public land
GeologyAlkali playa / evaporite basin
History19th-c. borax production
NearbyMarietta ghost town ~4–5 km NE

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