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8 unusual facts about Gypsum


Empire, Nevada

Gypsum mining was the historic staple of the local economy until 2011.

Frans Kannik

He made numerous Sculptures in Plastic, Gypsum, Cement, Foamrubber and the like, but all the sculptures and materials from the installations were destroyed after the end of the exhibition.

Gharsana tehsil

Gypsum is an important mineral found in the area and many people earn their living by working in gypsum mines and factories.

Gypsum, Colorado

The Town of Gypsum is a Home Rule Municipality located in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.

Gypsum is the location of the Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE), a popular regional airport used in the winter to transport skiers to nearby Vail.

Rushcliffe Halt railway station

The station closed to passengers in 1963 as part of the infamous Beeching Axe, although freight continued to serve British Gypsum until the early 1980s.

Southeast of Saline Secondary School

The school's enrollment is approximately 700 students from the communities of Gypsum, Assaria, Kipp, and Mentor.

Southeast Of Saline Secondary School (SES) is a K-12 school located in Gypsum, Kansas.


Aleptina arenaria

Gypsum sand is the substrate of the white dune field at White Sands National Monument.

Arzamassky District

A narrow gauge railway serving the Peshelan gypsum mine is located in the village of Bebyayevo.

Cave of the Crystals

Penelope Boston (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), speleologist and geomicrobiologist specialist of extremophile organisms realized sterile sampling of gypsum drillcores by making small boreholes inside large crystals under aseptic conditions.

Coralloid

Cave popcorn, small nodes of calcite, aragonite or gypsum that form on surfaces in caves

Feuchtwangen

Geographically and geologically the land around Feuchtwangen comprises the eastern part of the Swabian-Franconian Escarpment Land (Schichtstufenland), also sometimes called the gypsum-keuper landscape.

Henrik Lund-Nielsen

Based on a world record of 80% recycling rate for gypsum waste in Denmark, he grew the company from an initially marginal Danish presence to the world leader in recycling of gypsum plasterboard (drywall) waste with several European subsidiaries and business in the US and Asia.

Jambyn Batmönkh

Batmönkh's reign contributed to the creation of major energy (the construction of Ulaanbaatar and Erdenet power stations, and the connection of the Central high-power electric grid with the Soviet Union's Siberian Grid) and mining (the beginning of the operations of Erdenet and Baganuur coal mines, and Bor-Ondor gypsum mine) infrastructure, together with, various other light production and food processing factories.

Kieserite

In early 2005, Mars Express, a European Space Agency orbiter, discovered evidence of kieserite in patches of Valles Marineris (the largest canyon on Mars), along with gypsum and polyhydrated sulfates.

Kow Swamp Archaeological Site

The name of Kow Swamp is derived from the Aboriginal word in the Yorta Yorta language, (Ghow), meaning white gypsum soil which is found in the area.

Ludwig Meyn

From 1846 he studied the production of indigenous raw materials such as gypsum and lime in the Segeberger Kalkberg and Lieth.

Orcein

If the conversion is carried out in the presence of potassium carbonate, calcium hydroxide, and calcium sulfate (in the form of potash, lime, and gypsum in traditional dye-making methods), the result is litmus, a more complex molecule.


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