Wastes from previous attempts to mine the area for other minerals.
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The company denies the accusations, saying the mine bolstered the area's economy.
At Tom Price, Rio Tinto's biggest mine in the area, managers point out scrub-covered hillsides whose cultural significance they are debating with the authorities.
He said Scottish Coal had been operating at an opencast mine in the area for 14 years and this latest development would see it continue for another eight years at least.
The Plan B would drill at an 85 degree angle into an area of mine shaft that is used as a mechanical workshop.
Mine rescue teams confirmed that the four miners at Gleision Colliery were trapped by water after they broke into an area of old mine workings.
China Metallurgical Group, the Chinese state-run company slated to take control of the coal deposits, said it had no idea children were used to mine coal in the area.
Access to Bachelor Lake has not been a problem as highway 113 leads to the mine uninterrupted and the area is also electrically sound with hydro-electric power lines along the way.
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The mine is located in the Western Bushveld area of South Africa, about 20 kilometers from the giant Rustenburg mine owned by Impala Platinum, and sits in the heart of South African platinum production, said Kris Begic, vice president of corporate development for the Vancouver-based Platinum Group Metals.
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The men were visiting a village in the Malikhel area when the mine went off.
Correspondents say Sunni militants may have planted the mine - the upper Kurram area is dominated by Shias who do not oppose anti-polio efforts.
Hence state security had not swept the area with their mine-detectors.
Under Plan B, a hole is being drilled at a roughly 80-degree angle into an area of the mine shaft that is used as a mechanical workshop.
The Mines Rescue Team leader Andrew Watson said no contact has yet been made with the miners, who were trapped by water after they broke into an area of old mine workings.
The mine collapsed in the Jebel Amir area of the town of El Serief in north Darfur on Monday, an eyewitness said.
Close friends of mine who run a child play-area encountered the same experience in their expansion-planning.
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Correspondents say the mine was probably planted to target the area's Shia Muslims, rather than vaccination workers.
When Elijah Muchima, minister for the area, recently visited the mine, the workers turned out in force to greet him.
While visiting the mine, Fortuna Silver showed different areas where they work with the people of the area, namely the heavily impoverished area of San Jose del Progreso, 800 meters away from the mine.
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Mine was the third crash in that small area that month.
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Her real estate investment in Huaxian, Guangzhou, was considered risky at the time, but subsequent government plans to develop the area turned it into a gold mine.
It began back in 1966, when Colorado-born mine magnate Courtland Parfet bought the ranch, an area of grassland mainly for grazing beef cattle.
The nearby Sikalima stream is another cause of friction between the Chinese-run mine and the cattle-herding community in the area, who rely on it as a source of drinking water.
Physicists know this because of the unusual amounts of different types of uranium and other elements in the area, which was used by France as a uranium mine.
The source, who requested anonymity, said the six trapped miners were working in an area called 7 Belt -- the deepest part of the mine.
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Murray said work on the sixth hole, which will go down into the area where the miners were known to be working when the mine collapsed August 6, should be completed by Saturday.
Because the area is heavily mined and laden with roadside bombs, Marines are using mine rollers to clear roads, Pelletier said.
Second, if the mines actually do get built and go into production, each mine may create over 750 new jobs, which would become available in an impoverished area of the state.
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Mine's supporters say that 1, 200 jobs have already been created in an area that is especially hard hit by long-term unemployment.
"That's how you collect and mine data, and in this backdrop of tight defense budgets, it's an area that's relatively insulated, if not growing, " Hamilton says.
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