VOA-Sparrow Clinic The VOA-Sparrow Clinic is a collaboration between Volunteers of America and Sparrow Hospital, providing both physical and mental health care to the homeless in the Lansing area. Their location is 430 N Larch in Lansing.
Answers. Best Answer: Proposed to be an element by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774, manganese was discovered by Johan Gottlieb Gahn, a Swedish chemist, by heating the mineral pyrolusite (MnO2) in the presence of charcoal later that year.
In the late-seventies, two of the international joint ventures succeeded in collecting several hundred ton quantities of manganese nodules from the abyssal plains (18,000 feet, 5.5 km + depth) of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.