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Pink Halite - sodium chloride mineral.
Pink halite comes from Searles Lake near Trona, California. Every year Searles Lake is flooded, and when the water evaporates all that remains are brine pools. The halite crystals grow in these brine pools. The flooding destroys all of the previous year's halite, so the crystals grow new each year.
The water in Searles Lake contains bacteria that turn red when they die and decay, which then makes the water red, so the halite crystals that form out of this water end up being various shades of pink, red or even burgundy.
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