Gallery: Gritty Photos From a Broke-Down Mining Town in the Mojave Desert
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Iron Man stands along the road in Trona.
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The Westend Plant located near Searles Lake. It refrigerates a mixture of carbonated brine and lake brine to make sodium sulfate and primary borax, some of which is transported to the Trona plant.
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A Trona resident poses outside the Searles Valley Minerals plant.
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St. Madeleine Catholic Church, one of several churches in Trona, was built in the late 1950s.
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The desolate landscape of Trona.
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A local man leans against Esparza Family Restaurant, one of the few places to eat in Trona.
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There are many abandoned homes in Trona, some of which are subject to arson.
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Industry looms beyond a Trona graveyard.
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The rugged terrain of the Mojave Desert.
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A shrine in the desert.
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Dawn at the Searles Valley Minerals plant.
