Borax Mine in Boron, CA
A trip to the town on Boron, California and the open pit Borax mine.
Famous 20 Mule Team Helps Mining Town Celebrate 90 Years
“Teams like this were all over the United States at one time. These were the primary power source. Before we were harnessing petroleum, we were harnessing mules, says Bobby Tanner, Owner/Driver of the 20 Mule Team.
Now, these mules harness all the attention. They’re the famous 20 Mule Team, themselves made famous by soap -- 20 Mule Team Borax.
It led to a TV show, “Death Valley Days,” parades, and capitol appearances.
Borax comes from Boron, which is plentiful in this part of the Mojave Desert, where the town is also named Boron. The mineral is used in everything from treated wood to crop support, even silly putty.
“It’s kind of like the baking soda of manufacturing. So it’s in everything from your cell phone glass to your TV screen. There’s only a few places on earth where there’s big, deep deposits, and the one behind us in Boron is one of the largest and most rich and quality Borax in the world and that’s why we’re here and we’ve been here for 90 years digging in that location, says John Brown, Global Communications Manager of U.S. Borax.
Before the mine in Boron, these modern mules’ predecessors transported the mineral.
“The Borax company used these hitches, exactly like this, wagons exactly like this, to transport their product from Death Valley across this desert all the way to the rail head of Mojave, says Tanner.
The Borax company has been in business 145 years. The town of Boron is celebrating their 90 years of mining here.
“It’s a great place. We have the Borax mine out here. We’re all practically family, says Brittany Sheridan, Miss Boron 2017.
The celebration is especially fun this year, because the 20 Mule Team is here.
People love them for what they represent, but they’re also excited to see them turn corners and – jump the chain.
“Our mules work, they’re happier. They love to do this kind of stuff, says Tanner.
Bobby Tanner says there's a common misconception about mules. “The rumors of mules being stubborn, and that kind of stuff is not true. They’re smart. They will stop and access a situation that you would think an animal wouldn’t be smart enough to do and so, I guess, that’s confused for stubbornness.”
If you missed them in Boron, you can catch the 20 Mule Team every Memorial Day in Bishop, California
Twenty mule teams carry borax out of Death Valley in operation by William Coleman's Company, 1894
Twenty mule teams carry borax out of Death Valley in operation by William Coleman's Company - 1894.
Late 20th century clip shows montage of still images from late 19th century dealing with borax. A view of Death Valley desert in United States. Deposits of borax found in the valley. Picture of San Francisco business man William T. Coleman. William Coleman invested in the borax. Mules seen carrying the cargo of borax. Twenty mule teams used to carry borax out of Death Valley, in operations by William Coleman's Company. Pictures showing the mule teams are seen.
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#12 - Boron, California - #ElementADayInMay
Jessica Hendrickson and Everyday Science tackle an Element a Day in May! Today's episode: Boron in Boron, California, just east of the Mojave.
More on Boron:
Atomic Number: 5
Atomic Weight: 10.811
Melting Point: 2348 K (2075°C or 3767°F)
Boiling Point: 4273 K (4000°C or 7232°F)
Density: 2.37 grams per cubic centimeter
Phase at Room Temperature: Solid
Element Classification: Semi-metal
Period Number: 2 Group Number: 13 Group Name: none
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Epic Mule Team
Did this as a bit of fun whilst doing research for the 20 Mule Team for my job as a museum curator up at Calico. Did this a while back when I worked on an 1890's Daggett route for Trainz and copied a bit of the 20 Mule Team's travels from the dry lake all the way up to Daggett where they transferred borax over to the AT&SF. Thought it'd be nice to upload it here to YT for all you guys to see.
Don't nitpick please on Thomas and Edward being on an 1890's era American railroad, I only had them there because I wanted the trains to react to the mules whenever they darted by. This video was only made for fun anyway, so it dosen't have to be 100% authentic.
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We here at Golden Eagle Studios & Productions Ltd. do NOT, I repeat do NOT, hold the copyright for Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends or the Railway Series OR the 20 Mule Team. They are owned and coyrighted by HiT Entertainment, Mattel,Egmont Books and Rio Tinto Minerals. This production was only made for fun, to kill spare time and for the sole purpose of entertaining others. And in absolutely no way was any money made off of this production.
20 Mule Team Wagon Train Story
Many people remember the old television show Death Valley Days. For a time it was hosted by Ronald Reagan and it went on to be one of the longest running television shows in history. It opened each week with a familiar bugle call and made the Twenty Mule Team famous across America. The history of that image of 20 mules pulling the wagons is the subject of this film. It's an engaging look back at history and the old west and explores a one-time common means of transportation, for the mule teams were the big-rigs of their day.
Directed by Ted Faye
Bikepacking/Touring The Black Mt wilderness Day 1 Boron, Ca
This 5 day Bikepacking/Touring in the Mojave Desert well take to you to Boron, The Black Mt Wilderness, Inscription Canyon, Rainbow Basin, Owl Canyon Campground, Barstow, CA, Route 66, Helendale, CA and home to Palmdale, CA...Enjoy The Ride
Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, Mojave Desert, California, USA, North America
Zabriskie Point is a part of Amargosa Range located in east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in the United States noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago long before Death Valley came into existence. The location was named after Christian Brevoort Zabriskie, vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century. The company's twenty-mule teams were used to transport borax from its mining operations in Death Valley. Millions of years prior to the actual sinking and widening of Death Valley and the existence of Lake Manly (see Geology of the Death Valley area), another lake covered a large portion of Death Valley including the area around Zabriskie Point. This ancient lake began forming approximately nine million years ago. During several million years of the lake's existence, sediments were collecting at the bottom in the form of saline muds, gravels from nearby mountains, and ashfalls from the then-active Black Mountain volcanic field. These sediments combined to form what we today call the Furnace Creek Formation. The climate along Furnace Creek Lake was dry, but not nearly as dry as in the present. Camels, mastodons, horses, carnivores, and birds left tracks in the lakeshore muds, along with fossilized grass and reeds. Borates, which made up a large portion of Death Valley's historical past were concentrated in the lakebeds from hot spring waters and alteration of rhyolite in the nearby volcanic field. Weathering and alteration by thermal waters are also responsible for the variety of colors represented there. Regional mountains building to the west influenced the climate to become more and more arid, causing the lake to dry up, and creating a dry lake. Subsequent widening and sinking of Death Valley and the additional uplift of today's Black Mountains tilted the area. This provided the necessary relief to accomplish the erosion that produced the badlands we see today. The dark-colored material capping the badland ridges (to the left in the panoramic photograph) is lava from eruptions that occurred three to five million years ago. This hard lava cap has retarded erosion in many places and possibly explains why Manly Beacon, the high outcrop to the right, is much higher than other portion of the badlands. Manly Beacon was named in honor of William L. Manly, who along with John Rogers, guided members of the ill-fated Forty-niners out of Death Valley during the gold rush of 1849. The primary source of borate minerals gathered from Death Valley's playas is Furnace Creek Formation. The Formation is made up of over 5000 feet (1500 m) of mudstone, siltstone, and conglomerate. The borates were concentrated in these lakebeds from hot spring waters and altered rhyolite from nearby volcanic fields.
2.) Crossing the Great Mojave Desert
We are about an hour into the Mojave Desert from the northern exurbs of L.A. now and stopped to put fuel in the car. We are just leaving the tiny town of Boron, California. Las Vegas is still two full hours ahead of us, according to the mileage sign here.
BORON BOBCATS GO TO THE SUPER BOWL, Boron,CA
These boys are going to the super bowl. Go Boron BobcatsT The Boron Bobcats were finalists in the NFL Together We Make Football competition and won a trip to the 2015 Super Bowl. The Bobcats are a small team of 23 players from a school with only 160 students. They may have a small squad but they have big hearts, and the country rallied behind them to send them to the Super Bowl 2015 Events SuperBowl2015Events.com Twitter@SuperBowl2015AZSuper Bowl at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, AZ. on Feb 1. The coach and two senior players were at the AVBOT Business Outlook Conference Friday Feb 27.
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20170408 • Karls Hardware Opens In Boron • 93560
Eric Landsgaard (center), owner of Rosamond, Mojave and now Boron Karls Hardware, saws the wooden ribbon with a battery-powered Milwaukee sawsall at his new location in Boron on Saturday, April 8, 2017.
California State Assemblyman Tom Lackey, a native of Boron, attended the opening (standing next to the Boron Queens Court). Boron Mayor Dale Slavinski stands to Eric’s right. Justin Knight, a Rosamond resident and store manager, holds the left side of the wooden ribbon that he and his father sawed out for the store opening. Jorge Lopez, merchandise manager, holds up the right end of the sign.
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Pacific Coast Borax Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:21 1 History
00:02:45 2 Death Valley
00:03:39 3 Other mines
00:05:39 4 20 Mule Team Borax
00:06:47 5 Corkhill Hall - Amargosa Opera House
00:08:11 6 U.S. Borax
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The Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB) was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis Borax Smith, the Borax King.
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Borax mine ruins in Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park is één van de heetste plekken op aarde en is bekend om zijn pastelkleurige golvende duinlandschap waar zo goed als niets leeft. In 1880 werd borax aangetroffen en gewonnen.
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2013 in science | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:45 1 Events, discoveries and inventions
00:00:56 1.1 January
00:16:39 1.2 February
00:29:43 1.3 March
00:42:28 1.4 April
00:53:28 1.5 May
01:07:21 1.6 June
01:22:19 1.7 July
01:36:33 1.8 August
01:43:35 1.9 September
01:52:55 1.10 October
02:02:16 1.11 November
02:09:37 1.12 December
02:18:11 2 Awards
02:18:21 2.1 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
02:18:51 2.2 Nobel Prize
02:19:23 2.3 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
02:19:42 2.4 UNESCO Young Scientist Awards/Michel Batisse Award
02:20:11 2.5 Other
02:20:24 3 Deaths
02:20:33 3.1 January
02:21:59 3.2 February
02:23:23 3.3 March
02:24:55 3.4 April
02:26:40 3.5 May
02:28:13 3.6 June
02:29:58 3.7 July
02:31:48 3.8 August
02:32:07 3.9 September
02:32:47 3.10 October
02:33:25 3.11 November
02:33:58 3.12 December
02:34:15 4 See also
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A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2013, including the discovery of numerous Earthlike exoplanets, the development of viable lab-grown ears, teeth, livers and blood vessels, and the atmospheric entry of the most destructive meteor since 1908. The year also saw successful new treatments for diseases such as HIV, Usher syndrome and leukodystrophy, and a major expansion in the use and capabilities of technologies such as 3D printing and autonomous cars.
The United Nations designated 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation.
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