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Magadi, Lake
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Magadi, Lake (məgä`dē), c.20 mi (30 km) long and 2 mi (3.2 km) wide, S Kenya, in the Great Rift Valley. Formed and constantly resupplied by volcanic springs, the lake has a thick crust of carbonate of soda. The crust is removed by a floating dredge and then pumped to refineries, where it is processed into soda ash (used in glassmaking).

Magadi, Lake

Lake, Great Rift Valley, southern Kenya, east of Lake Victoria. It occupies an area of about 40 sq mi (104 sq km). Its bed consists almost entirely of soda deposits, which dye the waters a vivid pink.
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To add insult to injury, three years ago the Kenyan government, again, renewed the mining contract of the multinational Tata Group, to continue mining soda ash from Lake Magadi for another 30 years without due regard to the Maasai.
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Magadiite, named in 1967 after the locality of its discovery near Lake Magadi, Kenya, is one of the layered silicates with the general formula NaS[i.
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