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| Title | Down in the Mine |
| Abstract | Cover story about the limestone mine 750 feet below Sugar Creek. "Subsurface mining remains a heavy industry in the Kansas City Area. Limestone is a principal ingredient in the manufacture of Portland cement, and every year the Lafarge deep miners remove about 1.4 million tons of limestone from beneath Sugar Creek." Following the article is a short history of limestone mining in Kansas City. "Today the Kansas City area is considered the international leader in commercial underground space, much of it created years after the mining of the thick beds of limestone on which the city is built." Hunt Midwest Enterprises, "where limestone mining began in the 1940s, operates SubTropolis which is considered "the world's largest underground business complex." |
| Author | Brian Burnes
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| Photographer | Jim Barcus
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| Date | July 18, 2010 |
| Source | The Kansas City Star Magazine |
| Location | Microfilm |
| Page | Cover, 8-14 |
| Subject | Mining
Limestone quarrying
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| Local Subject | Sugar Creek, Missouri
Lafarge Corporation
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| Illustrations | Yes |
| Item Type | Newspaper Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| CONTENTdm number | 39253 |
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