More than 100 years ago, people were mining borax and white gold here.
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Crude shelters and tents once dotted the flat below you. Chinese workers slept and ate there; other employees lived at what is now Furnace Creek Ranch. This 1892 photo -- taken after the works closed -- shows the borax works in the center of the view and the company village on the flat to the left. The financial problems of owner William T. Coleman and borax discoveries in other parts of California forced the Harmony operation to close in 1888 after five years of operation.
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