327The Mineral Industry of Kansas 
 
This chapter has been prepared under a cooperative agreement between the
Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the State Geological
Survey of Kansas for collecting information on all minerals except fuels.

 
 
By George T. McIntyre,' A. L. Hornbaker,2 and R. G. Hardy2 
 
 
 
Mineral production value in Kansas reached a record high in 1967. Principal
mineral commodities produced, in order of value, were petroleum, natural
gas, natural gas liquids, helium, cement, and stone. Mineral fuels and related
products comprised 87.1 percent of the total mineral value, nonmetals 12.6
percent, and metals 0.3 percent. Kansas ranked seventh among the States in
the production of oil, sixth in the marketed production of natural gas, and
sixth in the production of natural gas liquids. 
Trends and Devclopments.—The Kansas Power and Light Co. will install
the Nation's largest air pollution control system in its new 430,000 kilowatt
addition to the Lawrence generating station. The control system will eliminate
83 percent of sulfur dioxide, 99 percent of fly ash, and all sulfur trioxide
from the flue gases. Installation has already begun on its existing 125,000-kilowatt
unit at the same station at a cost of $3 million. Both generPetroleum engineer,
Bureau of Mines, 
Bartlesville, Olda. 
 2 Geologist, State Geological Survey of Kansas, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
Kans. 
 
Table 1.—Mineral production in Kansas 1 
Mineral 
1966 
 
1967 
 
 
 
Value 
 
Value 
 
Quantity 
(thousands) 
Quantity 
(thou 
sands) 
Portland cement thousand 376-pound barrels...Masonry cement thousand 280-pound
barrels -Clays thousand short tons..Coal do..~Hellium: 
8,979 
 395 
 847 
1,122 
$27,246 
 1,151 
 1,006 
 5,355 
8,833 
 350 
 935 
1,136 
$25,545 
 1,000 
 1,339 
 5,294 
 Grade A thousand cubic feet_ Crude do... 
Lead (recoverable content of ores, etc.)_short tons~ 
Natural gas million cubicfeet. 
Natural gas liquids: 
 Natural gasoline thousand gallons. LP gases do..._ 
Petroleum (crude) thousand 42-gallon barrels... 
Salt2 thousand short tons.. 
Sandandgravel                        do...~ 
Stone                                do..~ 
Zinc (recoverable content of ores, etc.)_short tons. 
75,500 
2,624,200 
1,109 
 847,495 
 
 175,053 
 664,164 
 103,738 
969 
 11,627 
 14,027 
4,769 
 1,885 
30,951 
335 
114,412 
 
 9,399 
25,902 
306,027 
13,388 
 8,374 
18,789 
 1,383 
 225,000 
2,719,700 
 1,031 
 871,971 
 
 194,173 
 665,057 
 99,200 
 1,069 
 12,066 
 13,551 
 4,765 
 5,364 
32,554 
 289 
116,844 
 
10,703 
31,923 
297,600 
14,686 
 8,650 
17,806 
 1,319 
Value of items that cannot be disclosed: Natural ce 
 
 
 
 
ment, gypsum, pumice, salt (brine)              
XX 
2,789 
XX 
3,152 
Total                                 
XX 
568,392 
XX 
574,068 
Total 1957—59 constant dollars             
XX 
552,897 
XX 
P 552, 532 
 Preliminary. XX Not applicable. 
 1 Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production
(including consumption by producers). 
2 salt in brine; included with "Value of items that cannot be disclosed."