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The Harmony Borax Works en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Borax_Works , located in Death Valley at Furnace Creek Springs, then called Greenland. It is now located within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.
After discovery of Borax deposits here by Aaron and Rosie Winters in 1881, business associates William Tell Coleman and Francis Marion Smith subsequently obtained claims to these deposits, opening the way for "large-scale" borax mining in Death Valley. The Harmony operation became famous through the use, from 1883 to 1889, of large Twenty-mule teams and double wagons which hauled borax the long overland route to the closest railroad in Mojave, California.
During the summer months, when it was too hot to crystallize borax in Death Valley, a smaller borax mining operation shifted to his Amargosa Borax Plant in Amargosa, near the present community of Tecopa, California. The Harmony Works remained under Coleman's operation until 1888, when his business collapsed.
Taken during a San Luis Obispo, CA SLO Camera Club www.slocameraclub.org/ outing Feb. 22-25, 2013 to Death Valley National Park en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_of_interest_in_the_Death_Val... , a national park in the U.S. states of California and Nevada located east of the Sierra Nevada, occupying an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts in the United States.

Photo © 2013 “Mike” Michael L. Baird, mike {at] mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com. Canon 5D Mark III, with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens w/ circular polarizer, small tripod, 2 second shutter delay, RAW. See EXIF for photo-specific exposure settings used. GPS EXIF geotag comes from a realtime on-camera Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver

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Taken in: United States / California / Death Valley (show map)

Taken on: February 24, 2013

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, f/7.1, 1/320 sec, 24mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens:	EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Macintosh)
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