Around Boron

Around Boron - Hardcover

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Around Boron

Around Boron - Hardcover

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by Barbara J. Pratt (Author), Twenty Mule Team Museum (Author)

In the late 1920s, this high desert area with little water and unproductive soil held no attraction for most people, but the small community of Amargo provided a grocery store, gas station, and of course a saloon for the convenience of tenacious gold and borax prospectors. In 1938, after the large deposit of borax was discovered and mining had begun, a town hall meeting was called and Le Roy Osborne, supervisor of Pacific Coast Borax Company, suggested changing the name from Amargo to Boron. Boron is the fifth element on the periodic table and combines with other nonmetallic minerals to form a family of related minerals called borates; after this was explained to those gathered at the town hall meeting, Boron was unanimously chosen as its new name and the community was forever linked to the borax mining industry.

Number of Pages: 130
Dimensions: 0.38 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN
Publication Date: April 08, 2009

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