BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF RICH HILL, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The Board of Aldermen of the City of Rich Hill, Missouri (the “City”) finds it necessary and hereby declares its intent to borrow $3,000,000 for the purpose of acquiring, constructi...
entry, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. While one of the state's smallest counties, Santa Cruz County is also one of Arizona's most diverse and interesting destinations, offering an eclectic blend of history, culture, art, recreation, shopping, cuisine and entertainment in a beautiful and relaxing ...
Much of the alpine snow melts by mid-August except for a few snow-capped peaks and a few small glaciers. The Colorado Mineral Belt, stretching from the San Juan Mountains in the southwest to Boulder and Central City on the front range, contains most of the historic gold- and silver-mining...
are, first, the geologic, which determines the main patterns of landforms, drainage, and mineral resources and influences soils to a lesser degree, and, second, the atmospheric, which dictates not only climate and weather but also in large part the distribution of soils, plants, and animals. ...
Seasonal hunting, sportfishing, and tourism form the basis for an important regional recreation industry. Valuable mineral deposits surround the lake. Iron ore was mined and smelted locally from 1848, and the opening (1855) of the Soo Locks ship canal on the St. Marys River facilitated iron ...
The captains prepared maps, artifacts, mineral samples, plant specimens, and papers to send back in the spring. On April 7, 1805, a small crew departed on a St. Louis-bound keelboat laden with boxes of materials for Jefferson that included live magpies and a prairie dog. Meanwhile, the ...
Construction of a bridge (1812) across the Lehigh and opening of theLehigh Canal(1829) brought new economic opportunities to the town; an iron industry was started in 1847, a cement plant in 1850, and a rolling mill in 1860. Allentown’s location amid rich mineral deposits (iron ore,zinc...
Prominent geomorphic reminders of this glacial activity are the rolling farmlands, thousands of lakes, steep hillsides, and flat glacial lake and outwash plains that make up Minnesota’s present-day landscape. The state’s rich prairie soils developed on the finely ground mineral materials left by...
Mining city is a specific area formed after the mining industry and its related social economy developed to a certain scale [32]. Mining city has caused serious damage to the regional environment in the process of mining resources exploitation. With the exhaustion of mineral resources, the ...