Trona (California)
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | California | ||
| County : | San Bernardino County | ||
| Coordinates : | 35 ° 46 ′ N , 117 ° 22 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) | ||
| Residents : | 2,742 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Height : | 498 m | ||
| Postal code : | 93562 | ||
| FIPS : | 06-80518 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 250630 | ||
Trona in California is a mining settlement and census-designated place about 270 km northeast of Los Angeles . Trona has 2,742 inhabitants and the zip code is 93562. Trona is located on the eastern side of the Panamint Valley near the Panamint Range .
history
While searching for gold, John W. Searles and his brother found a rock with shimmering crystals near the Panamint Mountains in 1862. They took the rock with them, but without knowing what it was exactly. Ten years later, she accidentally discovered that it is the crystals were borax (Na 2 B 4 O 5 (OH) 4 · 8H 2 is O), the most significant borate - mineral . In the period that followed, numerous companies tried to mine and refine the minerals found there, such as borax, soda , potassium carbonate and sodium sulfate .
The name Trona comes from the Californian Trona Company (later: American Trona Company), which from 1900 built two factories for mineral extraction and in 1913 an approx. 50 km long railway line ( Trona Railway ) as well as a company settlement.
In 1924, the Epsom Salts Monorail , a Lartigue monorail for magnesium mining, was built. The cargo was moved from the Crystal Hills to the Trona loading station.
After a wave of layoffs from the American Potash and Chemical Corp. in the 1990s only the mining company Searles Valley Minerals Inc. remained as the main employer. The infrastructure and social life of the city gradually fell apart. Most of the previous residents moved away and many of the remaining residents became addicted to the drug crystal meth .
Movie
Some of the feature films Trona and Land of Plenty from 2004 and Just add water from 2008 are set in the settlement.
Web links
- City website
- Trona: A Film by David Fenster - Film website
- “The city that lets itself fall” , Tagesspiegel , September 8, 2008, interview with Tobias Zielony on the crystal meth epidemic in Trona
- "Town At 'End Of The World' Friendliness Runs Deep In Remote San Bernardino County Desert Hamlet," Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 16, 2005
supporting documents
- ^ Searles Valley Minerals Inc.
- ↑ "Town At 'End Of The World' Friendliness Runs Deep In Remote San Bernardino County Desert Hamlet," Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 16, 2005
- ↑ "The city that lets itself fall" , Tagesspiegel, September 8, 2008