A former Borate-Halite-Co-Na mine located 4 miles W of Borax Lake.
Mineralization is a lacustrine borate and halite deposit hosted in clay, mud and evaporite.
Production data can be found in Yale (1904).
References:
Hanks, Henry Garber (1883), Report on borax deposits: California Mining Bureau. Report 3, part 2, 111 pp.: 38.
Bailey, Gilbert E. (1902), The saline deposits of California: California Mining Bureau Bulletin 24: 52.
Yale, Charles G. (1904), Borax: in Mineral Resources of the U.S., 1903, USGS, Washington, D.C.: 1017-1028.
Smith, W.C. (1966) Borax and other compounds. California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 191, part 1: 104-111.
Smith, G.I. (1985) Borate deposits in the United States: Dissimilar in form, similar in geologic setting, in Barker, J.M., and LeFond, S.J., 1985, Borates: Economic Geology and Production; Proceedings of a symposium held on October 24, 1984, at the fall meeting of SME-AIME in Denver, Colorado: New York, Society of Mining Engineers of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc: 38-51.
Ver Planck, W.E. (1956) History of Borax Production in the United States: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 52(3): 273-191.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geol. Bulletin 189: 109, 356, 377.
Lyday, P.A. (1992), History of Boron Production and Processing: Industrial Minerals, No. 303: 19-37.
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Map Reference: 38°58'N , 122°40'W
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