Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

Mineral extraction sites such as the Dolaucothi gold mine was probably first worked by the Roman army from c. 75, and at some later stage passed to civilian operators.

* Mineral collecting Rudolf II was 16th century most famous mineral collector whose collection were curated by Anselmus de Boodt

The first wire mill in Great Britain was established at Tintern in about 1568 by the founders of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works, who had a monopoly on this.

He appeared in three television series that aimed to bring archaeology to the public: ' Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ' ( 1952 – 60 ), which was a quiz game, an archaeological variant of Twenty Questions, ' Buried Treasure ' ( 1954 – 59 ), and ' Chronicle ' ( 1966 ), and was named British ' TV Personality of the Year ' in 1954.

In 1963-64, First Indian Small Scale Industrial Unit with Japanese Plant for Rubber Belts for Conveyor / Elevator / Transmission was installed near National Capital Territory of Delhi and its MrBelts Conveyor Belting has been widely used in Steel, Cement, Fertilizer, Thermal Power, Sponge Iron Plants and Coal / Mineral establishments / Mines, Port Trusts and similar material handling applications of Industry for the last over 4 decades ;

The event was originally started with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society Show and has now grown to include dozens of other independent shows.

This was in the Frankfort district of Mineral County.

It was not until after West Virginia became a state in 1863 that present-day Mineral County was organized.

One of the world's tallest Douglas fir trees ever recorded was in the town of Mineral within Lewis County, attaining a height of.

The quake occurred at an approximate depth of 3. 7 miles and was centered in Louisa County ( location at 37. 944 ° N, 77. 942 ° W ), 5 miles SSW of Mineral and 38 miles NW of Richmond.

Upham Oil and Gas Company has operated in Palo Pinto County since its founding in 1956 by the late Chet Upham of Mineral Wells, who was also the chairman of the Texas Republican Party from 1979-1983.

Eventually, the town of Mineral Wells was platted.

The Mineral Wells State Park was opened to the public in 1981.

Mineral County was carved out of Esmeralda County in 1911 shortly after the county seat of Esmeralda was moved to Goldfield in 1907.

Waynesville was the site of Wayne County's first school, which was called Mineral Springs Academy.

When the mill was being built, U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor Solon M. Allis finished surveying the new town's site, which was revealed on March 5, 1879 to an eager public.

The Mohave County seat originally was located in Mineral Park, in the settlement of Callville.

* Henry E. Chambers, Louisiana historian and educator early in his career was the principal at Mineral Springs High School in the 1881-1882 school year.

After that dissolved, he formed, played shows with, and recorded an EP with Imbroco, a band which featured the half of the band Mineral that was not in the Gloria Record.

Members of the Portland band The Decemberists are from Montana, and were in a band named after the small town of Tarkio, in Mineral County.

Mineral Point was originally settled in the early 19th Century by immigrants attracted by the prospect of lead mining.

* Mozley, P. S., Concretions, bombs, and groundwater, on-line version of an overview paper originally published by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources.

The Country Bear Jamboree was originally intended by Walt to be placed at Disney's Mineral King Ski Resort which he was trying to build in the mid 1960s.

The Second District as originally formed in 1863 included Taylor, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker, Barbour, Upshur, Webster, Pocahontas, Randolph, Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, and Morgan counties ( Jefferson county's status in the state was still in dispute, and Grant and Mineral counties were still part of other counties, but the modern territory of all was also included ).

* James D. Linxwiler, The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: The First Twenty Years Paper 2, Proceedings from the 38th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute ( 1992 )

Mineral oil term is used to encompass lubricating base oil derived from crude oil.

Mineral processing ( or mineral dressing ) is a specialized area in the science of metallurgy that studies the mechanical means of crushing, grinding, and washing that enable the separation ( extractive metallurgy ) of valuable metals or minerals from their gangue ( waste material ).

The ore deposits in the Colorado Mineral Belt lie within a zone that has been geologically active at intervals beginning from near the time of crustal accretion in central Colorado at least 1. 6 billion years ago until the present.

Mineral deposits from thermal activity are found on an uplifted area called the resurgent dome, at Little Hot Creek springs, Hot Creek Gorge, and other locations in the south and east moats of the caldera.

Mineral wealth is extracted from various sites, e. g., phosphates ( near Gafsa ) and hydrocarbons ( in the desert south ).

Klow is told to be the Capital of Mineral Water, and they are famous for their Klowaswa ( Cyrillic: Кловасва ), their national mineral water, literally meaning " Klow Water " or " Water from Klow ".

The Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum ( UCMP ), the body that links investors to government departments, will hold the Mineral Wealth Conference from 1st-2nd of October, drawing participants from East Africa and beyond.

* Richard M. Smith, legislator from Mineral Point, Wisconsin

" Mineral oil functions as a lubricant and stool softener, but often has the side effect of sporadic seepage from the patient's anus which can soil undergarments for up to 24 hours.

Over 10, 000 people descend on Mineral Springs from all parts of the country to take part in this day long event of races and other activities.

This facility includes a golf course, hotel, restaurant & lounge, swimming pool, and an indoor natural Hot Mineral Springs Spa that is fed from a depth of over 3000 feet with a water temperature of 104 degrees.

Mineral build-up resulting from the use of tap water in model boilers can severely reduce the efficiency of the boilers if run for long periods.

Mineral build-up resulting from the use of tap water ( including bottled water ) will reduce the effectiveness of the humidor.

* Gallery of mineral specimens, from the Bisbee exhibit at the 2008 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show

The racial makeup of Mineral was 115 ( 93. 5 %) White, 0 ( 0. 0 %) African American, 1 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 1 ( 0. 8 %) Asian, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 1 ( 0. 8 %) from other races, and 5 ( 4. 1 %) from two or more races.

This small town offers a break from interstate travel and an introduction to area history in the Mineral County Museum.

Water from the Colonial Spring in West Deer Park ( now Wheatley Heights ) was bottled in small blue embossed " West Deer Park " water bottles by the Colonial Springs Mineral Company between 1845 and 1854.

" Although beset by financial difficulties from its inception, the water and its carbonated derivatives were sold until the early 1920s, and re-developed as " Pure Rock Mineral Water " in 1939, also serving as a base for Pepsi-Cola bottled in Ellenville during World War II.

Over 10, 000 people descend on Mineral Springs from all parts of the country to take part in this day long event of races and other activities.

Slayden's growth was spurred by the existence of a railroad line ( the " Mineral Branch " of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ) which was built in the late 19th century largely to assist the movement of iron from the nearby works at Cumberland Furnace to market.