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The employees at the meat-packing plants in these three counties comprise about two-thirds of the total employees of meat-packing plants in Kansas. The majority of workers at meat-packing plants are foreign-born Hispanics. Nationally, 66.8 percent of meat-packing employees are Hispanic and 56 percent of all workers are foreign-born. [12]
Geometallurgy relates to the practice of combining geology or geostatistics with metallurgy, or, more specifically, extractive metallurgy, to create a spatially or geologically based predictive model for mineral processing plants. It is used in the hard rock mining industry for risk management and mitigation during mineral processing plant design.
Location of Shawnee County in Kansas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Shawnee County, Kansas.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States.
There is a processing plant for alfalfa in Wamego. The other major industry is a factory which produces attachments for earth-moving and other heavy construction equipment, wholly owned by Caterpillar, Inc. Many of the residents of the city commute to nearby areas for employment, chiefly Manhattan and Topeka. [citation needed]
Carlin-type gold ore from the Twin Creeks mine, Nevada, near the Getchell Mine. This is an auriferous, silicified-decalcified siltstone/mudstone from the Comus Formation (Lower Ordovician). Ore grade is about 0.20 to 0.25 ounces of gold per ton of rock. The gold mineralization is very finely disseminated: "invisible gold".
The Cherokee County Superfund site is the Kansas portion of the Tri-State district. Acidic waters in mine shafts throughout the site, chat piles, tailings impoundments, surface waters in the mine pits, and streams draining the site contain significant concentrations of lead, zinc, and cadmium. [20] [21] 12/30/1982: 09/08/1983 – – –
Wholesale costs in the United States picked up sharply last month, signaling that price pressures are still evident in the economy even though inflation has tumbled from the peak levels it hit ...
The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 80.5 miles (129.6 km) long, [3] in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an agricultural area of rolling limestone hills south of Topeka and Lawrence .