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Contents
Information Sources and Study Methods
Mine Maps
Aerial Photography
Field Work
Personal Interviews
The Ozark Plateau
The Cherokee Lowlands
Drainage
General Mining, Milling, and Economic Geology
Land-Ownership Patterns in the Kansas Portion of the Tri-State Mining District
Plate I--Underground Mines and Shafts
Plate II--Open Shafts, Pits, and Subsidences
Waco
Lawton
Badger-Peacock
Crestline
Treece
Baxter Springs
Galena
Plate III--Mine and Mill Waste
Suggested Methods for Closing Mine Openings
Appendix A--Kansas statutes pertaining to abandoned mines [Not included in web version.]
Appendix B--Section maps of Galena area showing underground workings and hazardous mine openings [available as an Acrobat PDF file, 143 KB]
Appendix C--Tabulations of mine hazards [available as an Acrobat PDF file, 3.4 MB]
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Kansas Geological Survey, Tri-state Mining Area
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Update4d Aug. 31, 2010. Report from January 1983.
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