For many hundreds of families in the area, mining was central to their lives and bound communities together.
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It used to be a massive area for mining - now there's nothing and there are generations of the same families out of work.
This does not mean that Iran will not be able to complete a nuclear program, but civilian technologies including those where Bolivia seeks assistance are highly undeveloped except perhaps in the area of mining.
Mining reached its apex in the 1890s when around 700 people lived at Corinna, but by 1919 the town was all but abandoned, leaving what Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service describes as " the only remote area historic mining settlement" in the state.
While mining the millions of asteroids around Earth opens up a new area for the mining industry, questions arise regarding staking claims and owning property, or asteroids in this case, in space.
Pacific Rim acquired a firm that already had an exploration permit, a sort of phase-one permit in the mining world that allows companies to explore an area and determine whether mining would make sense there.
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In some parts of Mindanao, people took to gold panning as floodwaters swept a mining area in Mawab town.
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They kill and destroy, looting where they can, largely in the Koidu diamond-mining area in the east of the country.
Those six licences expired between March 2006 and March 2007, after which the district government began offering the mining area to other firms.
Seleka - an alliance of three rebel groups - took Bambari last Sunday having earlier seized the rich diamond mining area around Bria.
Her first-person narrator, Katniss Everdeen, who hails from a shabby coal-mining area, is a tough, resourceful girl, a huntress who protects her family.
The building originally opened as a temperance hall in the 19th Century to encourage the area's mining community to come together, while promoting abstinence from alcohol.
Graham Morgan, chairman of Cinderford Regeneration Board, said some of the buildings left in the former coal mining area had "not been touched" since the mid-1960s.
On Sunday, the rebels captured the northern city of Bambari, the third largest in the country, having earlier seized the rich diamond mining area around Bria.
Isolated on the western edge of Arizona, Quartzsite was once a mining area and way station for travelers, later becoming popular with retirees for its mild winters.
Recent events in Donetsk, the coal-mining area in the east that is a hotbed of anti-Kuchma feeling and happens also to be the country's most populous region, have been particularly murky.
As in many other towns across the country, a temperance hall was set up in the 19th Century to encourage the area's mining community to come together, while also promoting abstinence from alcohol.
Mr. SAWLIS: With them being strong flyers, I've got a huge bullet to try and figure out exactly is it coming from this particular mining area or not or this drilling area or not.
Blair's supporters in his North-East of England constituency, battling crippling levels of unemployment in a former mining area, needed the guarantee of a decent home for their families at a reasonable rent that council housing provided.
He spent most of his career in farm education, including eight years in Bolivia, where, as a volunteer for the Mennonite Central Committee, he created demonstration farms in an area where the mining economy had collapsed.
Wayne Thomas said the rise in the price of coal and the quality of the anthracite in the local area had seen mining become more profitable in recent years and led to a "resurgence of interest".
Mining the area between various fields will allow you to carve out a unique career path, one that is custom fit to your own interests and inclinations.
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Freeport Indonesia said in February that it expected output from the Grasberg mine to rise 30% this year, after falling around 40% last year due to strikes and its mining an area with lower mineral content.
Unesco granted the heritage status in July 2006, saying the "substantial remains are a testimony to the contribution Cornwall and West Devon made to the Industrial Revolution in the rest of Britain and to the fundamental influence the area had on the mining world at large".
The Nusantara Group, a conglomerate controlled by Prabowo Subianto, a politician, had previously controlled the mining in that area.
The court gave the local village councils in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts three months to decide whether they wanted mining in their area.
Some Colombian officials think he might have been colluding with the guerrillas to drive Greystar out of the area and scoop up its mining rights.
He found high levels of poisonous heavy metals in the water and believed there was a direct connection between incidences of cancer and mining in the area.
The Skouries project is the latest in a complex of mining facilities in the area.
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