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  2. Harmony Borax Works - Wikipedia

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    In an effort to save money and achieve greater efficiency, Coleman had unique borax wagons designed to get the product to the closest railhead in Mojave, California. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The wagons consisted of two box wagons and a water wagon [ 6 ] pulled by a team of twenty animals typically consisting of eighteen mules and two horses.

  3. Borate and Daggett Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Borate and Daggett Railroad was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad built to carry borax in the Mojave Desert. The railroad ran about 11 miles (18 km) from Daggett, California, US, to the mining camp of Borate, three miles (4.8 km) to the east of Calico.

  4. Pacific Coast Borax Company - Wikipedia

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    There were processing plants in Alameda, California [4] and in Bayonne, New Jersey. [5] One of the earliest reinforced concrete buildings constructed in the United States was the Pacific Coast Borax Company's refinery in Alameda, California, designed by Ernest L. Ransome and built in 1893. It was the first to use ribbed floor construction as ...

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  6. Rio Tinto Borax Mine - Wikipedia

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    Rio Tinto Borax mine and plant, 2012 Rio Tinto Borax mine from ISS, 2013 Borax crystals, Boron Mine. Scale is one inch, ruled at one cm. The Rio Tinto Boron Mine (formerly the U.S. Borax Boron Mine) in Boron, California is California's largest open-pit mine and the largest borax mine in the world, producing nearly half the world's

  7. Colemanite - Wikipedia

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    Colemanite (Ca 2 B 6 O 11 ·5H 2 O) [6] or (CaB 3 O 4 (OH) 3 ·H 2 O) [4] is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits of alkaline lacustrine environments. Colemanite is a secondary mineral that forms by alteration of borax and ulexite.

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  9. 20 Mule Team Borax - Wikipedia

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    The product primarily consists of borax, also known as sodium borate, sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, and is named after the 20-mule teams that were used by William Tell Coleman's company to move borax out of Death Valley, California, to the nearest rail spur between 1883 and 1889.