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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. Dry rot treatment - Wikipedia

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    S. lacrymans is a form of brown rot, a group of fungi which digest the cellulose and hemicellulose in timber. This particular species poses the greatest threat to buildings since it can spread through non-nutrient providing materials (e.g., masonry and plaster) for several meters until it finds more timber to attack.

  6. Death Valley Railroad - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Death Valley Railroad running from Death Valley Junction all the way up to the mines at Ryan near Colemanite. The Death Valley Railroad (DVRR) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad that operated in California's Death Valley to carry borax with the route running from Ryan, California, and the mines at Lila C, both located just east of Death Valley National Park, to Death Valley ...

  7. 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.

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