Things to do / Travel Guide
Address:Borax Road
Boron, California
Tel:
(760) 762-7588
Our Factory Tour Expert Says:
Discover one of the best-kept secrets of the California Desert, the Borax Visitor Center. You will see mammoth mining equipment as you tour California's largest open pit mine.
Open year round from 9 am to 5 pm.
$ (Inexpensive)
Buried deep in the Mojave Desert is one of the biggest and richest deposits of borax on the planet. You will also find the Borax Visitor Center, one of the best-kept secrets of the Southern California desert.
Rio Tinto Borax operates California's largest open-pit mine in Boron, California - one of the richest borate deposits on the planet. The company supplies nearly half the world's demand for refined borates, minerals essential to life and modern living.