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Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT Labs) was an American industrial product safety testing laboratory. [1] [2] [3] IBT conducted significant quantities of research for pharmaceutical companies, chemical manufacturers and other industrial clients; at its height during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, IBT operated the largest facility of its kind and performed more than one-third of all ...
The borax deposit here was discovered in 1913, by John K. Suckow, [4] who when drilling for water found a deposit of what he believed to be gypsum. Further testing revealed it was the colemanite form of borax. Francis Marion "Borax" Smith bought the claim for his Pacific Coast Borax Company. [5] [6] Mining at the site by shafts began in the 1920s.
It is immediately northeast of the Morris Operation—the only de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States. It serves Chicago and the northern quarter of the state of Illinois , capable of producing 867 megawatts of electricity from each of its two reactors, enough to power over one million average American homes.
Argonne National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Lemont, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1946, the laboratory is owned by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UChicago Argonne LLC of the University of Chicago. [2] [3] The facility is the largest national laboratory in the Midwest.
Borax (Na 2 B 4 O 5 (OH) 4 · 8 H 2 O [2]) is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits of alkaline lacustrine environments and as a surface efflorescence in arid regions. It is the chief mineral mined from the deposits at Boron, California and nearby locations, and is the chief source of commercial borax .
In 1956, the Pacific Coast Borax Company merged with United States Potash Corporation to form U.S. Borax, which itself was acquired by Rio Tinto Minerals (Rio Tinto Group) in 1967. As a wholly owned subsidiary , the company now is called Rio Tinto Borax and continues to supply nearly half the world's borates.
Module:Location map/data/USA Illinois is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Illinois. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Location of Mineral in Bureau County, Illinois. Location of Illinois in the United States Coordinates: 41°22′55″N 89°50′12″W / 41.38194°N 89.83667°W / 41.38194; -89