According to Virginia, a docent at the Borax Visitor Center in Boron, more than 1,000 people per month visit the center to learn all about the chemical. That seemed like a lot of folks driving to ...

Also known by its chemical name sodium borate decahydrate, borax is a salt typically used to kill ants and boost laundry detergent, among other household cleaning needs. It is also found in some kinds ...

The giant Rio Tinto Borax mine in Boron locked out about 540 hourly workers Sunday after the employee union refused to ratify a new labor contract. The lockout began at 7 a.m. as miners showed up ...

On Sunday morning, January 31, Rio Tinto Borax locked out 570 union workers from its mine in Boron, California, in the Mojave Desert.

Last year, Jay Leno visited a US Borax mining operation in Boron for an episode of "Jay Leno's Garage." The episode, which airs Thursday at 10 p.m. on CNBC, is all about oversized vehicles.