It said mining at the Cornwall and West Devon Mining World Heritage Site would be carrying on the area's history.
First National Bank of Keystone, once a pillar of its West Virginia mining community, was hailed throughout the 1990s as one of the best-performing banks in the nation.
China's universities churn out legions of science and technology graduates who specialise in subjects that have almost been forgotten in the West, such as mining or heavy engineering.
In West Virginia's coal mining communities this weekend, funeral services are being held for victims of the Sago Mine accident this past week.
The company has announced that 12 mining operations in Kentucky and West Virginia will be idled or slowed, and 353 jobs cut.
While people in north Wales agreed with their west Walian counterparts in identifying landscape and mining as the most important elements of their heritage, and picked a miner's lamp and a beer barrel as objects that should be preserved for the future.
One can safely assume that one reason for this willful blindness was that there are few jobs that pay as well as these mining jobs in this rural area of West Virginia.
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Now, mining has a long and proud history in West Virginia.
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All this, it is feared, will dent the profits of big oil and mining firms, stoke inflation and imperil the West's access to resources that it needs just as much as China does.
Guinea-Bissau, on the swampy west African coast, cannot rival nearby countries in cocoa production or mining.
That is the point of the National Coal Mining Museum in Overton, about 13 miles south-west of Knottingley, on the site of the former Capstone colliery.
The result is that even in West Yorkshire, where coal has been mined since the 13th century, coal mining is now a job like any other.
Akinkugbe says that the main areas of employment activity are the mining industry in Central African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, agriculture in West Africa and the oil and gas sectors in countries such as Uganda and Ghana.
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