Major products include aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium-dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore.
en.wikipedia.org Ruins of buildings associated with borax mining, which ended here in 1902, remain near the lake in the 21st century.
en.wikipedia.org Washing soda is sometimes hard to find, and in those cases either borax or baking soda make adequate substitutes.
www.brandonsun.com Some of the earliest known fluxes were carbonate of soda, potash, charcoal, coke, borax, lime, lead sulfide and certain minerals containing phosphorus.
en.wikipedia.org Economically important sources of boron are rasorite (kernite) and tincal (borax ore).
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