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  Florida Geological Survey | Geological Bulletin No. 31 | Wakulla County, Panacea Mineral Spring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The springs are in the north part of Panacea, 0.3 mi N. and W. of the inter- section of State Hwy 372A (west) and U.S. Hwy 98 in a privately owned park operated by the city.
Spring orifice is near center of the pool.
There are six springs along the road through the park and at least one in the creek bed south of the bridge on the west end of the park.
www.flmnh.ufl.edu /springs_of_florida/panacea.html   (307 words)

  
 MoDNR Missouri Resources Spring 2002 Healing Springs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Many of the mineral springs and spas were located near what geologists refer to as the "fresh water-saline water interface," a zone of mixed water types that snakes diagonally across the state.
Mirroring the locations of these springs, many of the state's mineral water resorts were clustered in a broad arc from Vernon and Cedar counties on the west, northward through Johnson County, then bending eastward through Saline and Howard counties toward Pike and Ralls counties on the Mississippi.
Mineral water resorts could be considered, in some ways, the ancestors of modern public swimming pools, tourist camps, pleasure resorts and amusement parks.
www.dnr.state.mo.us /magazine/2002_spring/Healing_Springs.htm   (1886 words)

  
 Hot Mineral Springs
The increased content in the springs of solid substances in solution is due to a great extent to the increased temperature which they possess and to the composition of the lithological subsoil of the area.
The radon in the curative springs of Icaria influences the increase in the metabolism of pourinon with solvent action on the uric acid, with the result that it is eliminated from the organism through dieresis, which is increased with spas with radioactive waters, as also even through the pores of increased perspiration.
The spring, the temperature and the duration of the bath are determined by the patient's doctor in accordance with the complaint which he has and with the more general state of health of each bather.
www.island-ikaria.com /nature/springs.asp   (3785 words)

  
 Mineral Springs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
MINERAL SPRINGS "B" This pavilion stands in an otherwise open field by a giant oak at the corner of Spring and Church Streets in the town of Mineral Springs, a half dozen miles south of Nashville on highway 27.
This spring has been sealed off for many many years and the pavilion is used only for picnics.
The town (formerly Greenville) was renamed "Mineral Springs" in 1879 as a way of popularizing the area's plentiful springwater, which was purported to have curative properties.
users.aristotle.net /~russjohn/springs/minsp.html   (214 words)

  
 Mineral Springs, Manitou Springs Colorado
Founded in 1987, the Mineral Springs Foundation is a non-profit 501C3 organization whose mission is to restore, protect, and publicize the mineral springs of Manitou Springs and to document their historic origins.
The Mineral Springs Foundation Endowment Fund was created in 1995 to assure that the springs would be available for the continued enjoyment, benefit and education of future generations.
The year of Manitou Springs’ one hundred tenth birthday, 1986 to be exact, saw the establishment of a city fund for mineral springs restoration.
www.manitousprings.org /About/mineralsprings.htm   (590 words)

  
 Florida Geological Survey | Geological Bulletin No. 31 | Sarasota County, Warm Mineral Springs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Total depth of the spring appears to exceed 240 ft along the north wall, where, according to Clausen and others (1975), temperature of the springflow is 23°C to 37°C (73°F to 99°F).
The immediate vicinity of the spring pool has been landscaped and modified by the addition of two beach areas and several buildings; by elimination of two drainage channels that formerly entered the pool from the southwest and southeast, and by landscaping of the pool perimeter into a circular shape.
Warm Mineral Springs has been the subject of investigation by its owners in cooperation with State of Florida underwater archeologists, U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists, University of Florida geologists, Sarasota County Historical Commission, and the Florida Archeological Society.
www.flmnh.ufl.edu /springs_of_florida/warm_mineral.html   (880 words)

  
 LCSD Mineral Springs College History
Mineral Springs College fulfilled the demand for higher education within the Sodaville community.
This attraction to the spring caused the population to increase.
Mineral Springs College is a valuable piece of history for Sodaville.
www.lebanon.k12.or.us /history/history_msc.htm   (902 words)

  
 Manitou Springs Resort & Mineral Spa - What's In The Water
Magnesium is an essential mineral with 70% of the body's supply located in the bones and 30% in the soft tissues and body fluids such as the lymphatics.
Potassium is a mineral salt used for its antibacterial and astringent effect in natural deodorants and antiperspirants.
Mineral Salts are natural ingredients that stimulate the skin to perform functions such as oil production and hydration.
www.manitousprings.ca /whats_in_the_water.html   (558 words)

  
 Volume 3 - Chapter 12: Mineral Springs In Bedford County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The water of this spring is claimed to be a diuretic and cathartic.
The spring is in the Buffalo Mountain gap.
This spring was weaker in hydrosulphuric acid than the spring at the Bedford Springs or the Hafer resort, yet had a richer iron content than either of the other two.
www.everettarea.org /tales/v03/v03c12.htm   (533 words)

  
 Mineral Springs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mineral water is water that contains dissolved minerals of at least fifty grains per gallon.
Archaelogical findings suggest that mineral water was used therapeutically as long ago as the Bronze Age in 3000 BC.
The "miracle cure" of mineral water and spa therapy has been found to be grounded in science.
www.albany.edu /faculty/mackey/isp523/fall2002/anthony/mineralwater.html   (198 words)

  
 Pikes Peak Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Wheeler Spring, a drilled soda spring, was donated to the city by the family of Jerome Wheeler, of the New York Macy's, residing locally and involved in banking, mining and railroads locally and in Aspen.
Cheyenne Spring is a natural, sweet soda spring, from limestone aquifers a mile deep and believed to be 20,000 years old.
Soda Spring in the Spa Building was the social spot of early years and one of the natural springs.
www.pikes-peak.com /mineral_springs.htm   (611 words)

  
 Hot Springs & Mineral Spas in North America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Interest in mineral springs developed soon alter European colonists arrived in North America and learned about the many springs held sacred by the Native Americans in what are now Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Many of the commercial springs enjoyed their heyday during the middle and latter parts of the nineteenth century, when thousands of city dwellers boarded steam trains and stage coaches and converged on spa towns every summer for several weeks of healing, entertainment, and relaxation.
Many of the larger mineral springs resorts were modeled after the famous European spas, and they attracted their own variety of royalty, including presidents, writers, musicians, and artists.
www.innerself.com /Health/springs_spas.htm   (2450 words)

  
 Mineral Springs and Table Water Industry
Mount Clemens mineral water, under various labels, was marketed across the country as both a table water and a medicine.
Pagoda Springs was the first of the natural surface springs to be developed for the tourist trade.
The bottled product of Pagoda Springs bore the nickname "Little Pody" on the label and was advertised as "a fine purgative and liver stimulant." Among the corporate customers of Pagoda Springs was the Michigan Central Railroad, which served the water aboard its dining cars and used 75 cases (or 900 bottles) weekly in 1893.
www.macomb.lib.mi.us /mountclemens/springs.htm   (1180 words)

  
 Shumak mineral springs.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Shumak springs possess the best qualities of mineral waters from different regions like Tskhaltubo and Pyatigorsk in the Causcasus, Belokurikha in the Altai territory, Yamkun in Chita Oblast.
The springs are small holes in the soil filled with water differend in taste and temperature.
The curing power of mineral springs is largely determined by the activity of micro-organisms.
www.baikal.eastsib.ru /places/shumak.html   (224 words)

  
 Warm Mineral Springs. Siesta Key Vacation & Accommodations Guide - Travel and Tourist information for Sarasota Florida
Warm Mineral Springs is a water-filled, hourglass shaped sinkhole.
A curiosity of The Springs is the the water contains no dissolved oxygen, except at a layer 15 or 20 feet thick at the surface, where some garfish and a few minnows manage to live.
Some say The Springs was the spot Ponce de Leon searched for, fought for and died for, believing that here, indeed, was the Fountain of Youth.
www.simplysiestakey.com /WarmMinSprings.html   (247 words)

  
 Mineral Springs, AR - Arkansas Florists, buy flowers from your local full service retail flower shops and florist ...
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It is vitally important that you provide Mineral Springs, Arkansas Florists with accurate, detailed information regarding the name and address of the person to whom you are sending flowers.
When placing an order for Delivery in Mineral Springs, Arkansas, it is usually wise to keep the order simple, the less specific you are in your request, the less room for error.
www.flowershopnetwork.com /directory/ArkansasFlorists/Mineral-Springs.php   (916 words)

  
 Mineral Springs In Missouri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
True salt springs in Missouri were never as plentiful as in other parts of the country, and their yield could not support large numbers of people.
From their discovery, mineral springs were often categorized by the taste of their waters, and by the supposed benefits achieved from drinking or bathing in them.
Unlike most of the Missouri springs, Hot Springs came to be all the rage because of their natural temperature, and the low concentrations of radium found in the water, which are still advertised today.
www.umsl.edu /~joellaws/ozark_caving/springs/minsprg.htm   (996 words)

  
 Natural Hot Springs Spa Colorado--Yampah Spa & Salon
Vapor Cave #3 was developed along with the Hot Springs complex in the 1880s, when the cave received an enclosed entrance, electric lights and marble benches.
“There were 50 hot springs on both sides of the Grand River when white men first came here, with an aggregated flow of 6,000 gallons of mineral waters a minute and a temperature of 127 degrees F. The sulpo-saline-alkaline medicinal waters are world-renowned for their therapeutic value for both bathing and drinking.
The hot springs source is in the hillside behind the spa.
www.yampahspa.com   (668 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: MINERAL-WATER SPRINGS AND WELLS
Springs and wells varied in location, topography, vegetation, and properties such as temperature, mineral composition, and origin.
Hanna and Hancock Springs boomed after the railroad arrived at Lampasas, but when the terminus moved farther west, the popularity of the springs began a precipitous decline.
In 1910 Mineral Wells was the largest shipping point for mineral water in the South, with yearly shipments of more than three million bottles to cities in the South and Midwest.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/sbm11.html   (835 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Healing Waters: Missouri's Historic Mineral Springs And Spas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Because so many people were drawn to the springs by their faith in the healing virtues of the springwater, towns were frequently founded at the mineral springs.
Healing Waters: Missouri's Historic Mineral Springs And Spas is a straight forward history of the use and development of mineral springs in Missouri from 1800 to the 1930s.
Healing Waters concludes with a survey of why mineral springs fell into disuse, with a particular eye on how discoveries in microbiology and biochemistry led to a general repudiation of mineral water health benefits in favor of drug-related treatments.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826215548?v=glance   (761 words)

  
 Lesvos: Spas and Healing Mineral Springs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
These springs are recommended for the cure of chronic rheumatism, arthritis, scropules, skin diseases, sciatica of the hip joint, myalgic pain, illnesses of the womb, lymphatisms and gynecological diseases in general.
Nearby are the hot springs of Lisvori with therapeutic mineral bath installations on the banks of a torrent of water that flows into the bay of Kalloni.
The mineral waters are also inhaled for chronic bronchial catarrh, catarrh of the pharynx and the eustachian tubes.
www.lesvos.com /spas.html   (1548 words)

  
 BioGuard®.com | Mineral Springs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The minerals are converted into free chlorine that kills bacteria and algae in the pool.
The temperature and mineral level sensors keep the Mineral Springs controller calibrated regardless of pool temperature.
A temperature sensor and mineral level sensor are built into the electrolytic cell.
www.bioguard.com /mineralsprings.shtml   (623 words)

  
 Hot Springs and Mineral Springs presented by Spa Index  SpaIndex.Com
Established in 1854, Vichy Springs is a two hour drive north of San Francisco featuring eighteen rooms and four cottages, naturally sparkling 90º mineral baths, a communal 104º soaking pool, an Olympic size swimming pool (seasonally), therapeutic massage, herbal facials, and 700 private acres with trails and roads for walking and hiking.
Steamboat Springs is classed as "thermal waters" of volcanic origin which maintain excessive heat and high mineral content.
Ojo Caliente, which means "hot eye" for the center of the mineral springs, boasts that it is the "oldest spa in North America." Commencing in 1200, Native Americans built their pueblos on a mesa overlooking the mineral-rich waters, and weary travelers have been seeking out the same restful spot ever since.
www.spaindex.com /Lifestyles/hotsprings.htm   (2668 words)

  
 BioGuard®.com | Mineral Springs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mineral Springs is specially formulated to prevent the inherent negative characteristics of chlorine generators.
A major benefit of Mineral Springs is that it’s not necessary to wait for the chlorine residual to drop.
The sanitizer generated by a Mineral Springs unit also provides algae protection by producing chlorine continuously and superchlorination at each pass through the generator.
www.bioguard.com /msfaq.shtml   (670 words)

  
 Wilbur Hotsprings
For centuries, the natural hot mineral springs now known as Wilbur Hot Springs have drawn those seeking their powerful healing properties.
Since long before the days of the stagecoach, the mineral hot springs resort has been a source of respite, retreat, and rejuvenation for weary travelers.
The spa at Wilbur Hot Springs is a true sanctuary for the self, where quietude is revered and conservation is a way of life.
www.wilburhotsprings.com   (179 words)

  
 WSFC Magnet Schools: Mineral Springs Elementary School
As part of becoming a magnet school, Mineral Springs has new classroom learning labs, including desktop and laptop computers, ACTIVboards, digital and video cameras, printers and LCD projectors.
Classroom computers are being used to enhance students’ learning and help them develop and present their research projects.
Mineral Springs Elementary is also getting a facelift.
www.wsfcsmagnets.net /mineral-springs-elem-home.asp   (141 words)

  
 Manitou Springs, Colorado City of Mineral Springs
Manitou Springs is an eclectic mix of modern and Victorian buildings nestled at the foot of Pike's Peak in western Colorado.  It is also home to ten wonderfully restored mineral springs. 
The springs rise from aquifers fed by rainwater and snowmelt from Pikes Peak and on its thousand year journey from deep underground the water absorbs high concentrations of minerals as it passes through the limestone and dolomite caverns deep in the rock.
The flavour of the water is different at each spring depending on the intensity of the iron, sulphur or soda in the water
www.geocities.com /sacredsprings   (299 words)

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