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Boron is an unincorporated census-designated place in eastern Kern County on the western edge of the Mojave Desert, sitting along State Route 58 on the Kern and San Bernardino county line at about 2,467 feet elevation.

Boron is named after the element boron, and the town is the site of the world's largest source of the boron compound boric acid.

Borax ore in the form of colemanite was first discovered near Boron in October 1913, when Dr. J. K. Suckow struck it while drilling a well for water; a huge borax deposit was found in 1925 and the mining town of Boron was established soon afterward, with its first post office opening in 1938.

Boron is home to the Rio Tinto Borax Mine, the largest borax mine in the world and the largest open-pit mine in California, which supplies nearly half of the world's refined borates and employs more than 800 people.

Before open-pit mining began in 1958, borates at Boron were mined underground through more than 200 miles of tunnels, then the largest underground operation in California.

In 2010, Rio Tinto locked out Boron's mine workers for 107 days during a labor dispute, an event later covered in the documentary 'Locked Out.'

The 2020 census counted 2,086 people in Boron living in 831 households, with an average household size of 2.51 people and just over half of homes owner-occupied.

Boron's children attend West Boron Elementary School and Boron High School, home of the Bobcats, in the Muroc Joint Unified School District; the town's first school, Gephart School, was built in 1929.

Visitors to Boron can tour the Borax Visitor Center at the mine and the Twenty Mule Team Museum, which sits next to the Saxon Aerospace Museum honoring nearby Edwards Air Force Base.

Six miles east of Boron at Kramer Junction, the Solar Energy Generating Systems facilities were, until 2014, the world's largest solar power production facility.