Candelaria Hills
The Candelaria Hills are a mountain range in Mineral County, Nevada. The highest peak is Miller Mountain which was the location of "Borax" Smith's board-and-batten cabin where he lived when he discovered a rich borax The BORAX Experiments were a series of safety experiments on boiling water nuclear reactors conducted by Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho.

Miller Mountain (Nevada)
Miller Mountain is located in the Candelaria Hills of Mineral County, Nevada. "Borax" Smith's board-and-batten cabin where he lived when he discovered a rich borax The BORAX Experiments were a series of safety experiments on boiling water nuclear reactors conducted by Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho.

List Of Mountain Ranges Of Nevada
These are the named mountain ranges in Nevada. Some of them are quite small but still constitute distinct biomes. A - D *Anchorite Hills *Antelope Range (Nye County) *Antelope Range (Pershing County) *Antelope Range (White Pine County) *Ararat Hills *Arrow Canyon Range *Augusta Mountains *Badger Mountains *Bare Mountain (Nevada) *Barnett Hills *Battle Mountains, Nevada, Battle Mountains *Belted Range *Bilk Creek Mountains *Bird Spring Range *Black Canyon Range *Black Mountains (Nevada) *Black Rock Range *Bloody Run Hills *Blow Sand Mountains *Blue Wing Mountains *Bodie Mountains *Bone Mountains *Bristol Range *Broken Hills *Bruneau Range *Buck Creek Mountains *Buckskin Range *Buffalo Hills *Bullfrog Hills *Bull Run Mountains (Nevada) *Bunejug Mountains *Buried Hills *Burnt Springs Range *Butte Mountains *Cactus Range *Calico Hills, Humboldt County, Nevada , Calico Hills *Cambridge Hills *Candelaria Hills *Carson Range *Castle Mountains (Nevada), Castle Mountains *Cedar Mounta ...
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Mineral County, Nevada
Mineral County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 4,554, making it the fifth-least populous county in Nevada. Its county seat is Hawthorne, Nevada, Hawthorne. History Mineral County was carved out of Esmeralda County, Nevada, Esmeralda County in 1911 shortly after the county seat of Esmeralda was moved to Goldfield, Nevada, Goldfield in 1907. Its name came from the surrounding area, which is heavily mineralized. Hawthorne has always been its county seat. The county is listed as Nevada Historical Markers, Nevada Historical Marker 16. The marker is located on U.S. Highway 95 at Walker Lake (Nevada), Walker Lake. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.6%) is water. The highest point in Mineral County is Mount Grant (Nevada), Mount Grant at . Major highways * Interstate 11 (Future) * U.S. Route 6 in Nevada ...
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USGS
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an government agency, agency of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The agency also makes maps of planets and moons, based on data from List of NASA missions, U.S. space probes. The sole scientific agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with major offices near Lakewood, Colorado; at the Denver Federal Center; and in NASA Research Park in California. In 2009, it employed about 8,670 people. The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous s ...
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Excelsior Mountains
The Excelsior Mountains are located in western Nevada in the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 .... The range stretches in an east-west direction in Mineral County southwest of the town of Mina, Nevada. The mountains reach an elevation of 8,805 feet at Moho Mountain in the southeastern part of the range. The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest lies at the western end of the Excelsior Mountains. References *''Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer'', DeLorme, 2001, pg. 52, Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of Mineral County, Nevada {{MineralCountyNV-geo-stub ...
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Pilot Mountains
The Pilot Mountains are a mountain range in Mineral County, Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th .... References Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of Mineral County, Nevada {{MineralCountyNV-geo-stub ...
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Monte Cristo Range
The Monte Cristo Range is located in western Nevada in the United States. The range lies southeast of the Excelsior Mountains and east and north of Highway 95 in Esmeralda County. The Bureau of Land Management manages 99.9% of the range. Sagebrush scrub makes up 63.1% of the mountains, with Shadscale ''Atriplex confertifolia'', the shadscale or spiny saltbush, is a species of evergreen shrub in the family Amaranthaceae, which is native to the western United States and northern Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a c ... comprising 36.6%. References * "Volcanic and Sedimentary Rocks of the Monte Cristo Range, Esmeralda County, Nevada", University of Nevada, Ren * Biological Resources Research Center * ''Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer'', 2001, pg. 52 Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of Esmeralda County, Nevada {{EsmeraldaCountyNV-geo-stub ...
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Volcanic Hills (Nevada)
The Volcanic Hills are a mountain range in Esmeralda County, Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th .... References Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of the Great Basin Mountain ranges of Esmeralda County, Nevada {{EsmeraldaCountyNV-geo-stub ...
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Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, the 32nd-most populous, and the ninth-least densely populated U.S. state. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's population live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area, including three of the state's four largest incorporated cities. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Las Vegas is the largest city in the state. Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the "Battle Born State" because it achieved statehood during the Civil War (the words "Battle Born" also appear on its state flag); due to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, the Union benefited immensely from the support of newly awarded statehood by the infusion of t ...
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"Borax" Smith
Francis Marion Smith (February 2, 1846 – August 27, 1931) was an American miner, business magnate and civic builder in the Mojave Desert, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Oakland, California. He was known nationally and internationally as "Borax Smith" and "The Borax King", as his company produced the popular '' 20-Mule-Team Borax'' brand of household cleaner. Frank Smith created the Key System, an interurban private transit system, which operated in Oakland and the East Bay with a terminus in the San Francisco Transbay Terminal. Early life Francis Marion Smith was born in Richmond, Wisconsin in 1846. He went to public schools and graduated from Milton Academy in Milton, Wisconsin. Early mining career At the age of 21, he left Wisconsin to prospect for mineral wealth in the American West, starting in Nevada. In 1872, while contracting to provide firewood to a small borax operation at nearby Columbus Marsh, Smith discovered a rich supply of ulexite at Teels Ma ...
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Borax
The BORAX Experiments were a series of safety experiments on boiling water nuclear reactors conducted by Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho.Light Water Reactor Technology Development
Argonne National Laboratory They were performed using the five BORAX reactors that were designed and built by Argonne. BORAX-III was the first nuclear reactor to supply electrical power to the grid in the United States in 1955.

Evolution of BORAX

This series of tests began in 1952 with the construction of the BORAX-I

Teel's Marsh
Teel's Marsh is a playa in Nevada, United States. It was the site of "Borax" Smith's first borax The BORAX Experiments were a series of safety experiments on boiling water nuclear reactors conducted by Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho.