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Around Boron

By Barbara J. Pratt

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2009
ISBN
9781439623084, 2008940181
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
41 MB (42471249 bytes)
Series
Images of America
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-03-15 00:10:59
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

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.

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