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    West Mineral is a city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 154. It is the home of Big Brutus...
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    Big Brutus (category Museums in Cherokee County, Kansas)
    1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations...
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  • Official state rock, Kansas Legislature, retrieved 2019-12-05 "2018 Statute Chapter 73 Article 38", Official state mineral, Kansas Legislature, retrieved...
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    power shovel, was built in 1962, with a 90-yard bucket. It is in West Mineral, Kansas, as the centerpiece of a museum. Bucyrus-Erie 50-R, 55 feet high...
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  • still in existence. On display in West Mineral, Kansas. A replica of Norman Number 1 (supposedly the first oil derrick west of the Mississippi River) and...
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    Orval Grove (category Baseball players from Kansas)
    semi-pro level. In 1992, Grove died at the age of 72. Grove was born in West Mineral, Kansas, on August 29, 1919, and was raised in Maywood, Illinois. By eighth...
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    to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital...
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    Historical Museum, and the annual Kansas City Renaissance Festival. The Kanza people had settled the area because of the mineral springs and abundant fish and...
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    Brutus Mine Shovel One of the world's largest power shovels. 1962 West Mineral Kansas United States ASME brochure 128 1987 Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor...
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    Treece of buyout, The Wichita Eagle "Mined Lands" video, KTWU Mining Town Minerals, Kansas Historical Society Cherokee County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT...
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