Transportation- Materials Handling - A Century Of Borax Mining In The United States
- Organization:
- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
- Pages:
- 9
- File Size:
- 1175 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 1971
Abstract
Marco Polo brought the first borax to Europe late in the 13th century. It was especially treasured then for one of its many qualities-that of working with gold as a soldering flux. Georgius Agricola in 1556 gave it the name chrysocolla (which the Moors called borax)-literally, "gold glue." Deposits of borax have been elusive and widely scattered-first found only in Tibet and Italy, and, in 1836, at Iquiqui, Chile. Dr. John Veatch made the first California discovery in 1856 while examining a mineral spring east of Red Bluff. This "Borax Lake" soon supplied 90% of U.S. demand, but flooding and other production problems caused the scene to shift from Borax Lake to Little Borax Lake and then to Nevada in 1871. Early transportation was by "Twenty-Mule Teams."
Citation
APA: (1971) Transportation- Materials Handling - A Century Of Borax Mining In The United States
MLA: Transportation- Materials Handling - A Century Of Borax Mining In The United States. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1971.