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The Mines was selected by Golf Digest as the tenth "Best New Public Golf Course Under $75" in 2006. It is located above a portion of the old gypsum mines, 5 minutes from the heart of downtown Grand Rapids. The site features mature hardwoods, rolling terrain, and sandy soils. The Mines is a par 70 that measures 6701 yards, with a slope of 137.

Kent County Inventory of Underground Mines ; Mapping the Michigan Natural Storage Gypsum Mine Using a Geological Information System ; Alabastine Mine (with photos) CHAPTER XXXVIII: GYPSUM AND PLASTER OF PARIS. - Baxter, Albert, History of the City of Grand Rapids, New York and Grand Rapids: Munsell & Company, Publishers, 1891. (Name Index)

Three other plaster mines were located south of John Ball Park, and plaster deposits run under the park itself. Note: An excellent article in the January 1, 1907 Grand Rapids Evening Press, page 59, describes in detail the early history of the Grand Rapids gypsum mines.

Grand Rapids, Michigan This is a 1:1 replica of the area around Grand Rapids as best I could do using terrain.party. This is my first map, so feedback is greatly appreciated! Especially if I made a mistake, I would like to correct it. GENERAL NOTES Grand Rapids grew as a logging, gypsum mining, and farming community.

Abandoned Gypsum Mine in Grand Rapids and Coal Mine in Jackson – Engineering Challenges Speaker(s) Dr. Stan Vitton, PHD, PE is an Associate Professor at Michigan Tech. Prior to Michigan Tech he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama.

Gypsum Mines. GRHC - February 27th, 2011. Gypsum mines play a major role in Grand Rapids' early industry. Transcript. Mention Grand Rapids and people think of furniture, but that was not our first important industry. It was gypsum, or plaster, discovered in extensive surface beds along the creek named for its discovery—Plaster Creek.

Gypsum Supply Company serves both commercial and residential customers and offers the largest inventory of construction supplies in Michigan and Ohio. All of our employees pride themselves on being hard working, safe, and professional. Whether you need drywall, insulation, acoustical tile or construction accessories, we've got your jobsite needs covered.

"Blue Rapids Gypsum Mine" 4.0 ... Former Employee - Densite Operator in Blue Rapids, KS. Recommends. Neutral Outlook. I worked at Georgia-Pacific full-time for more than a year. Pros. High Emphasis on Safety. Good Pay Union Representation Lots of hours. ... Browse by: Companies, Jobs, Locations .

Gypsum - Wikipedia. Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O. It is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, blackboard chalk and wallboard.A massive fine-grained white or lightly tinted variety of gypsum, called alabaster, has been used for sculpture by many cultures ...

Grand Rapids Gravel Co. Plant No.20: Grand Rapids Gravel Co. Private: Sand and Gravel: Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #3: Grand Rapids Plaster Co. Private: Gypsum-Anhydrite: Grand Rapids Mine: Grand Rapids Gypsum: Private: Gypsum-Anhydrite: Grand Rapids Plant No. 5: Private: Sand and Gravel: Maynard Pit and Plant No. 8: Private: Sand and Gravel ...

Grand Rapids Gypsum Mines (GC1C1AM) was created by The Conman on 5/13/2008. It's a Not chosen size geocache, with difficulty of 1, terrain of 1. It's located in Michigan, United States.The coordinates of this cache will take you to the parking lot a local business in Wyoming, MI which operates the gypsum mines.

Features of the mines and the mining process were used in the construction of the course. The water used to irrigate the course is pumped directly from the mines. Conveniently located minutes from downtown Grand Rapids, The Mines is the ideal location for your group to play. Our course will make you feel up north, while only being miles away.

According to "Grand Rapids in 1874," Grand Rapids was already then something of a convention center. Now with 4 or 5 different railroads coming and going from the city, and thriving furniture and gypsum industries, it was well situated in terms of transportation and industry to support a large hotel industry, which did develop.

Founders Brewing barrel-aging program takes place 100 feet under the earth in gypsum mines in Grand Rapids, MI. These mines provide an ideal environment for the barrel-aging process because the temperature and humidity stay consistent, allowing the beer to do what it does best in the barrels.

Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. Mine, Wyoming, Kent Co., Michigan, USA : A gypsum mine owned by the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. and located at Wyoming, near Grand Rapids. Massive gypsum in white salmon, pink, and red colors, and colorless to brown selenite crystals have ...

The mines are no longer active and now serve as secure dry storage sites. The Mines Golf Club and Millennium Park are built atop old gypsum mines. Furniture City. Grand Rapids became a major lumbering center in the late 19th century, processing logs that were floated down the Grand River from elsewhere in the region.

History. The Grand Rapids Gypsum Company was incorporated in 1860, but the mines pre-dates this incorporation. The mine is located in the city of Walker, just southwest of Grand Rapids, north of the Grand River.The original mine entrances were both north and south of Butterworth Drive, named after the pioneering mining magnate, R.E. Butterworth, who opened the first gypsum mines north of the ...

XV. Grand Rapids Plaster Co. Gypsum Mine, entrance to....62 XVI. Map of Michigan Showing Location of Wells.....65 XVII. Map of Land Controlled by the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. at Grand Rapids.....69 XVIII. Buhr Stone Mills Grinding Gypsum; Grand Rapids

The Michigan Natural Storage Company (MNSC) underground facility, a former underground gypsum mine in Kent County, Michigan (Figure 1), provides exposures of the Mississippian-age Michigan Formation. In western Michigan this formation consists of six, cyclically bedded, thick layers of gypsum and thin beds of shale, dolomitic siltstones and ...

Location Maps - Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. Mine, Wyoming, Kent Co., Michigan, USA. Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 42° 54' North, 85° 42' West: Latitude & Longitude (Decimal Degrees): ... The coordinates listed for many locations are general regional coordinates (not accurate) and should not be relied upon for locating localities ...

Gypsum. specimen number: 2611064. location: Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. Mine, Wyoming, Kent Co., Michigan, USA. description: Very neat locality example showing a grouping of glassy gemmy gypsum crystals 4.0 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm in size, inclusions of orange red iron oxide making this quite pretty.

The Mines Golf Course houses 18 holes of rolling bluegrass fairways and undulating bent grass greens. The course offers playability from four sets of tees, making your round truly exceptional.The course is built 150 feet above gypsum mines that were utilized as early as the 1860's.

Eventually, there were 13 separate gypsum mine operators in the Grand Rapids area, and by 1890, the citizens of Grand Rapids viewed the gypsum quarries as a "mine of apparently inexhaustible wealth to our city." Source: The Grand Rapids Press From the beginning, the demand for gypsum was great.

That's the selling point of Underground Secure Data Center Operations (USDCO), a server farm located in an abandoned gypsum mine near Grand Rapids, Michigan. USDCO execs are stressing the bunker ...
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