On the way to Red Rock State Park
near Las Vegas we did what was undoubtedly the most exciting thing out of the
entire trip. We went to a laundry
detergent mine. Ok that wasn’t the main part of the visit. It was really a
boron mine. A boron mine is where borates are mined to make borax. We went to a
visitor all about borax and how it’s made. I know sounds like torture, but it
was better than driving. The visitor center wasn’t that interesting. It was a
little building all about how boron is mined and how it is used; frankly I found
it a little boron. First it is mined and
crushed. Then it is washed, dried, and crushed some more. By the end it resembles
cat litter. We learned that boron is
used in, (take a deep breath), cleaning products, plates, fruit fertilizer,
footballs, insulation, plastic fencing, cleaning rags, rubber balls, and a partridge
in a pear tree.
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