The mine was shut down by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration due to the unsafe buildup of sand and concrete material in the main shaft of the mine.
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No production from the mine is expected this year after the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration ordered the Silver Shaft to be closed for removal of built-up sand and concrete material.
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The temporary closure of the Silver Shaft at the Lucky Friday mine was ordered last year by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration for removal of built-up sand and concrete material.
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That includes aggregates, sand, concrete, asphalt and cement.
The first two bathrooms and their escorts will take a circuitous route through the borough to Brighton Beach, where plans call for using a military vehicle to tow the trailers out along fortified stretches of sand to the concrete pilings that will be their permanent homes.
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The reality is those suppliers of sand, stone, concrete and road materials will not get their money.
So, for example, a 300-acre plant near Dallas takes Bridgeport's sand and gravel and turns it into concrete pipes as big as 12 feet in diameter.
It turned out that the concrete was made using beach-sand that was not properly desalinated, rather than more expensive quarry-sand.
The game is played with 49 glass or ceramic marbles grouped together on a 2m-diameter concrete cylinder raised 7cm off the ground and covered in sand.
Although feet were designed to walk barefoot on Earth's natural surfaces (grass, sand or gravel), they were not prepared to endure the concrete, asphalt and steel that covers so many landscapes today, Thompson said.
Iida said Fukushima Daiichi's reactors remain too hot to pour concrete, but he suggested pouring a slurry of minerals and sand over them to carry away heat before encasing them.
Concrete clad and perennially crowded, Bondi's well-trodden stretch of sand presents a broad slice of modern Sydney life, from the weather-beaten lap swimmers at the Icebergs sea pool, to the Negroni-swilling regulars at North Bondi Italian.
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