Searles Valley Minerals

Searles Valley Minerals Inc. is a raw materials mining and production company with corporate offices in Overland Park, Kansas.

Long mule teams were used to haul borax in wagons to San Pedro, until the much closer settlement of Mojave was used after the Southern Pacific Railroad reached it in 1876.

[7] In 1914 the company completed the Trona Railway line from Searles Station south to a junction with the Southern Pacific Railroad.

[7] In 1917, construction was completed on the American Trona Corporation Building in San Pedro, to process and store salt potash.

[3] In 1962 the company received nationwide recognition and an award for its innovative solvent extraction process to recover boric acid and potassium sulfate from weak brines.

[7] Kerr-McGee sold the Searles Valley production facilities in 1990, to capital investors D. George Harris and Associates, which formed the North American Chemical Company.

[7][1][2] Searles Valley Minerals Inc. is part of Climate VISION (Voluntary Innovative Sector Initiatives: Opportunities Now), a public/private partnership which is seeking to reduce US industry greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent between 2002 and 2012.

[17] SVM argued to the State Water Resources Control Board, that concentration of total dissolved solids, chlorides, sodium and other minerals are higher in natural ephemeral pools than in the company's depleted brine ponds.