| And in summer noisy miners, opportunistic and wary as sneak-thieves, beat a hasty retreat from the raspberries as we approach. |
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| Farmers and miners are protesting that wads of money are being spent on technology when all they really want is some decent irrigation. |
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| The first crew was able to warn another team of miners working behind them, who waded to safety in water up to their necks. |
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| The Flinders Ranges provide a home to Aborigines, farmers, miners and pastoralists. |
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| Stories handed down through generations of miners, quarrymen and farmers may be forgotten for ever. |
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| And it is not just the miners that use their banners as reminders of their heroic past. |
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| Local miners have been digging and collecting here for several years, moving many tons of overburden soil and waste rock in the process. |
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| In the film, the travellers meet Quechua Indians, miners, Communists on the run, and Guevara learns about power. |
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| A review of over 11 studies in uranium miners attributed an observed increase in lung cancer to radon and its progeny and not to uranium. |
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| I can certainly appreciate what the miners had to put up with just to earn a crust. |
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| In the later nineteenth century, a changing economy fostered songs and stories of cowboys, lumberjacks, miners, oil drillers, and railroaders. |
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| The Triple Alliance of transport workers, miners, and railwaymen was in existence by 1914 and had a strategy of sympathy strikes in place. |
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| The working conditions for West Virginian coal miners in the 1920s were atrocious. |
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| When they came to England they were only allowed to be miners, hospital workers or agricultural workers. |
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| There was much hardship felt by individuals such as miners, woodcutters, bullock drivers and storekeepers. |
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| Some of the earliest settlers around the mine were miners, woodcutters, teamsters, and before long a blacksmith. |
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| He lived among coal miners for a time to experience the wretched conditions of the underclass during that era. |
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| These days they want to know about the history of people who were not kings or queens, but weavers and miners, felling hands and lamplighters. |
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| Mercury is used by thousands of small-scale miners in the region to amalgamate gold. |
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| He says if you go around the graveyards of the area you'll know the miners by their age of death. |
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| Arbitrators have been called in as a last-ditch attempt to avert strike action by hundreds of Yorkshire miners. |
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| Let's begin our coverage of the dramatic rescue of nine trapped coal miners in Pennsylvania. |
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| It emerged this week that the miners who were retrenched earlier this year are yet to be paid their packages. |
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| Contracts were let for making bricks, burning lime and additional miners employed. |
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| It had blamed the illegal miners for causing a drop in the international price of tin. |
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| Nine miners were freed after spending four days trapped underground following a powerful earth tremor and rockburst on Monday. |
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| Ironically, the only unnaturalised Russians to be sent back were a community of Lithuanian miners who had settled in Scotland. |
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| Traditionally a mix of beef and root vegetables in a crusty shell, the pasty was easy for tin or copper miners to take along and eat on the go. |
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| Like the miners, I was busy day and night, trying to get a church erected and furnished. |
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| The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government. |
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| And a new tunnel is now being built by a fraternity of miners who call themselves the Sandhogs. |
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| Pearl Pass is the trade route between the two areas, used since the late 1800's by miners and mail carriers. |
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| Manganese miners consumed significantly more water and tea, because of the existence of the hot climate in their workplace. |
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| Some scars, such as a ramp towards the summit in the south-west, were perhaps cut by the 1776 miners. |
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| Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps. |
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| He added that there had never been any mention of miners being shifted to other pits. |
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| The miners seemed to bear their suffering stoically, though their conditions were very bad indeed. |
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| We used to pay beaters, most of whom were miners, 7s 6d a day and give them each a bottle of beer. |
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| Harriman tempted investors with glossy flyers featuring hard-working miners, who in actual fact were local beatniks. |
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| Strikes by coal miners, tax collectors and customs officials are also expected to take place over the next few weeks. |
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| Over 300,000 miners went out on strike to defend their living standards in the teeth of opposition from their union leaders. |
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| The Law Society is currently dealing with a raft of complaints about solicitors who charged miners an additional fee on top. |
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| Over the past several years, illegal miners have produced 40,000 metric tons of tin ore per year, near equaling Timah's production. |
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| The miners worked in 100-degree temperatures, 1,000 feet below the ground, in a space they couldn't really stand up in. |
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| It was a benevolent organization that gave aid to fellow miners, their widows and children, as the many newspaper articles of the period record. |
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| Management decided it was unsafe for miners to continue working as the coalface was hit by falls of rock and debris from the roof, and flooding. |
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| The same stronghold was besieged in 1136, when miners again attempted to demolish the walls. |
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| She bests the boys in fights, follows trails with a woodsman's craft, and lives off the charitable contributions of miners. |
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| The total number of autopsies of miners and millers conducted among these subjects from 1983 to 1991 is unknown to us. |
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| In another you can see the Bevin boys, the miners who ensured Britain did not run out of coal during the war. |
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| While drilling for coal deep in the Quecreek mine, 18 miners hit an old abandoned shaft filled with ground water. |
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| An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners yesterday while one other miner was able to get out alive. |
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| The organisation of services at collieries and contact with miners gave him great pleasure. |
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| The narrow mine shafts meant miners often had to work on their sides by candlelight. |
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| The first blast occurred as eight miners were transporting coal to the surface, hurling them toward the mouth of the 100-metre deep shaft. |
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| Last month the Doncaster-based firm said up to 40 miners at the colliery would have to lose their jobs in order for the pit to stay afloat. |
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| Rescuers are frantically trying to reach more than 40 miners trapped in a coal mine that is filling fast with water. |
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| Once miners unearth 21 million coins, that's the total number of bitcoins that could possibly ever exist. |
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| The miners have a coin that has real value because from minute one, you can use it to purchase these particular services. |
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| The high power envelopes combined with the high efficiency numbers should make the power supplies ideal for coin miners. |
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| The miners verify the blockchain and add their digital stamps to show the proof of work. |
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| Virtual currency miners will report their earnings as taxable income, and will be subject to payroll taxes if they mine as part of a business. |
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| The computing power of the network that runs Bitcoin doubled in October, pushing out all but the most dedicated miners. |
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| While working in tunnels, miners looked for listening tunnels and countermines of the defender. |
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| As well as digging their own tunnels, the miners had to listen out for enemy tunnellers. |
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| As their name suggests, miners make their nests in holes along creek banks or in burrows. |
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| It has been assumed that damage caused by these miners inhibits the plants overall ability to photosynthesize. |
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| The Indian Myna is from the starling family, while the Australian miners are honeyeaters and grey in colour. |
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| In 1920 black mineworkers staged a major stoppage following the arrest of two miners. |
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| In the proposed bylaw, it is not only sand miners who will be sanctioned but also transporters and traders. |
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| During 1867 Singleton employed a few miners on tribute working in an open cut. |
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| One of the first changes introduced by Vivian was to put some of the underground miners on tribute. |
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| If this government thinks its fight is only with miners they are sadly mistaken. |
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| Few black miners held leadership positions at the level of president of the union local. |
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| If any miners had survived the inrush, they would have been quickly killed by the blackdamp. |
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| Silbury-Hill, the largest tumulus or artificial mound of earth in this kingdom was begun to be opened by the miners of Mendip, on Thursday last. |
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| Her father was an engineer and her relations on her mother's side were miners. |
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| A federal fund created in 1977 to pay coal miners who developed black lung was funded with a tax on mining companies. |
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| Many people became miners to make a living and thousands died of miner's diseases such as black lung and silicosis. |
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| He appealed to the EU not to channel the money through the banks but directly empower the miners through their associations. |
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| Emergency workers blasted through solid rock from an adjacent mine to reach the miners. |
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| Gold-bearing rock is blown apart by high explosives and small groups of miners then move in to drill at the face. |
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| Inside the five-year-old company's offices are maps and blueprints of mineral claims scouted by other firms and rocks dug up by other miners. |
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| Supplies of many metals have been unusually tight in recent years, as miners have underinvested in or shut down production. |
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| At the bottom the surprised miners unhooked the cars, then hooked up some full ones for the trip to the surface. |
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| For them, the settling of scores with the miners developed into an obsession bordering on the deranged. |
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| Ironically, the only unnaturalised Russians to he sent back were a community of Lithuanian miners who had settled in Scotland. |
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| Exposure to asbestos is usually occupational, and includes shipyard workers, pipefitters, miners, and installers of brake linings and insulation. |
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| Caerphilly is a moist, whole-milk cheese with a crumbly, softish texture and a mild, acid tang, which was a favourite of Welsh miners. |
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| The granite rocks of the glacial valley contain quartz veins of silver, lead and zinc and at one time there were over 2 000 miners toiling there. |
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| Life for Britain's miners may have been hard, brutal and, in too many cases, short. |
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| Hundreds of striking Yorkshire miners are set to ballot for further industrial action, in a ground-breaking legal manoeuvre which could safeguard their jobs. |
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| With the cell phone industry booming, the park's resources and wildlife are under massive strain from miners seeking colombo-tantalite, also known as coltan or tantalum. |
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| The issuance regime of Bitcoin allocates new coins to the miners. |
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| It used to be a popular sideline for miners working shifts, but the collapse of the coal industry has been accompanied by a huge shortfall in retained firefighters. |
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| She craved a contest with the miners, and was fully prepared for war. |
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| In the first half of 2005 alone, 2,672 miners died in mining-related accidents in China, which averages out to more than one person 14 people per day. |
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| Several homes in nearby have already been demolished after suffering a potentially explosive build-up of the gas, which is known to miners as Fire Damp. |
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| The river has survived so far the marauding sand miners and the polluters. |
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| Or a modernized Tarzan might lead African miners on strike against unscrupulous multinationals. |
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| The miners who'll dig the stuff up will make a quid, of course. |
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| It is so hot and radioactive that the miners use remote control equipment. |
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| Over 10,000 miners held a demonstration, carrying a banner denouncing the government and calling for the arrest and public trial of the mine bureau directors. |
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| Word spread of the vast deposits of copper ore, and miners flocked to the high desert, bringing with them such support services as saloons and bordellos. |
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| She struggles with the poverty and meanness of her surroundings to keep herself and her family 'respectable' and is determined that her boys will not become miners. |
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| Of the 29 miners, 24 are kiwis, two are Australians, two are Britons and one is a South African. |
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| Men who scabbed in the 1926 General Strike were never forgotten or forgiven even to this day and the very mention invokes anger among the old miners. |
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| This is a benevolent fund, to which the coalmining companies contribute an amount that is levied on them, for the benefit of miners and their families, and the community. |
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| Margaret Thatcher had served under the Heath regime as Education Secretary and witnessed the miners topple the Conservative party. |
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| They also want overtime to be paid at time-and-a-half and double the hourly rate, with full pay for the first six months that miners are off sick. |
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| He said the mining centre would enable miners to add value to their stones by preparing knocking, sorting and grading their gemstones before selling them. |
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| Buses carrying miners were given a free run to Orgreave, a British Steel coking plant, whereas on previous occasions when they were going to picket the buses were stopped. |
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| In late 1854, self-employed miners and prospectors in the Victorian town of Ballarat rebelled against the government and set up an armed camp named the Eureka Stockade. |
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| Four other miners were injured and eight were rescued unharmed. |
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| More than thirty-four years after its discovery some sixty miners were employed raising the ore while above ground thousands of tons of old tailigs and ore were smelted. |
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| For lack of several hundred mine inspectors, thousands of coal miners could be idled. |
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| In the first hours, both the company and local authorities attempted to play down the extent of the tragedy, denying that many miners were in the mine at the time of the fire. |
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| Not only were many thousands of miners and millers employed, but as late as 1980 some 6000 South African workers were employed in making asbestos products, mainly cements. |
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| From the earliest days, said Shirley, Orr's Ranch was a gathering spot for freighters, cattle and horse wranglers, sheepherders, broncobusters, miners and trappers. |
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| He had his workers, out-of-work miners mostly, dynamite the rock and then smooth it with drills while seated in boatswain's chairs hung from cables. |
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| In 1993, some 73 Yanomami Indians died in clashes with Amazonian gold miners. |
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| Coal mining has historically been a key industry in Cape Breton, and with the government pullout miners will be left with few alternatives for work. |
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| The film, set in the bleak and grim coal mines of northern China, tells about two robbers' schemes to extort compensation money by murdering innocent miners. |
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| With a quiet word to his Mary, he started a night-long search, checking at the Gaming House, questioning other miners and searching the tracks and workings. |
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| As the currency has gathered momentum, miners have piled in. |
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| Cholera and typhoid were rampant and overseers used pick handles to physically force miners into the shafts. |
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| The miners themselves went on strike again and again, trying to get their wages raised. |
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| Use by major miners of artisanal produce may lead subsequently to claims of exploitation or taking advantage of low cost labour working in unsafe conditions. |
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| On April 25, 2006, the tremor triggered a rockfall inside a gold mine, and three of the 17 miners were unable to escape. |
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| As the country waited with baited breath, national media covered the mission to rescue the miners, stuck 240 feet underground. |
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| She gives attention to the working conditions of miners over time and across regions, yet the shortness of the book dictates a very abbreviated labour history. |
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| A group of bolivian miners must have received the shock of their lives when they uncovered a slab with 5,055 gigantic footprints. |
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| Rescue teams continued to drill toward six trapped miners Thursday evening and were hopeful of reaching the men with lifelines, mine officials said. |
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| Brown observed to Poole that the miners could typically make the same or slightly more money and produce more coal per day, saved as they were the labor of riddling. |
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| Judge Irene Berger asked Hughart who had ordered him to give miners advance word of inspectors. |
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| Aphids, cabbage loopers, flea beetles, leafhoppers and leaf miners are some of the insects that attack lettuce, but slug are the most notorious for loving lettuce. |
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| Interviews with miners and mine executives established that many companies took the test equipment and placed it in equipment rooms or near air intake ducts. |
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| He earned the money to do so by teaching at a night school for miners. |
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| By 20 January the cabinet was so desperate to crush the miners it considered sending in troops to move the coal which had been blacked by other workers. |
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| Many miners named their lodes for places from which they had emigrated. |
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| As supplies ran short the Nigerian miners found a new source of tourmaline in brownish-red to red colors, some of which is considered to be rubellite. |
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| In his efforts to humanize his infamous subject, Zuckoff even goes so far as to dredge up a tale from Ponzi's days as a nurse to injured miners. |
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| The first signs of the strike starting to crumble came in December as miners began to succumb to inducements from pit bosses. |
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| In metal and nonmetal mining, 23 miners died in FY 2015, six fewer than during the previous fiscal year. |
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| Putin was addressing miners in Novokuznetsk, a Siberian town, when he made the comments. |
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| Emergency workers were looking for three miners still missing in the mine in Novokuznetsk, 1,850 miles east of Moscow, she said. |
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| Seventy-seven miners were inspecting mine 7, in the Kuzbass coal basin, owned by the Siberian Coal Energy Company, when the blast occurred. |
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| Some 180 miners were safely brought to the surface after the explosion in the mine in Novokuznetsk, 1,850 miles east of Moscow. |
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| More than 150 miners were safely brought to the surface soon after the explosion in the mine in Novokuznetsk, 1,850 miles east of Moscow. |
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| Its target pests are American boll-worms, ants, locusts, leaf hoppers, leaf miners, mites, scales, termites, thrips, and white flies. |
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| The conveyer belt, on which the miners were going down in the mine, broke down, deputy governor Andrei Malakhov told Itar-Tass on Thursday. |
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| Rudd was also unable to win support for a controversial mining tax, which had angered miners. |
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| The safety lamp, which detected toxic methane gas in mines, was crucial in warning miners of impending danger. |
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| In a recent article in an industrial hygiene trade publication, Sandman suggests trying to develop intrinsic motivation in your miners. |
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| Local artisanal miners have been recovering gold from gold-bearing saprolitic soils and weathered bedrock using pans, monitors and sluices. |
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| Nick has a passion for hops and is constantly coming up with new flavours that keep the miners and young scenesters thirsty for more. |
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| It is commonly believed that football was introduced in Mexico by Cornish miners at the end of the 19th century. |
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| At the time, a small settlement, Perkatkun, had been established nearby to house the miners, but later on it was completely destroyed. |
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| Mining is also affected by various regulations regarding the health and safety of miners, as well as the environmental impact of mining. |
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| The Cornish miners were used to hard rock and did not modify their methods for soft clay and quicksand. |
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| As the miners worked at one end of the cell, so the bricklayers formed at the other the top, sides and bottom. |
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| Coal miners described two types of gases, one called the choke damp and the other fire damp. |
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| Over one hundred years later in 1733, Sir James Lowther had some of his miners working on a water pit for his mine. |
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| They lived in isolated villages where the miners comprised the great majority of workers. |
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| At its peak in 1949 25,000 miners dug 17 million metric tons of coal from Nova Scotian mines. |
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| Westray Mine near Stellarton closed in 1992 after an explosion killed 26 miners. |
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| Nevertheless, strikes remained very common, and coal miners took the lead in political organization. |
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| The miners split into several unions, with an affiliation to a political party. |
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| At Hartley there was no explosion, but the miners entombed when the single shaft was blocked by a broken cast iron beam from the haulage engine. |
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| The Benxihu Colliery accident in China on April 26, 1942, killed 1,549 miners. |
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| Less energy is required to transport miners and heavy equipment into and out of the mine. |
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| By drift mining, miners were able to recover much of the gold buried under the permafrost. |
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| Around 1900 the population of Nome was more than twenty thousand, many of them drift miners. |
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| Nome's gold fields, appearing untouched from the surface, are honeycombed with tunnels left by the gold rush drift miners. |
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| By digging soughs, miners found they could lower the water table and allow mines to be worked deeper. |
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| Until the development of effective electric lamps in the early 1900s miners used flame lamps to provide illumination. |
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| Before the invention of safety lamps, miners used candles with open flames. |
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| These mills were troublesome to use and were often worked by a boy, whose only task was to provide light for a group of miners. |
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| Indeed, the lamp burns brighter in dangerous atmospheres thus acting as a warning to miners of rising firedamp levels. |
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| The poor light provided yet another reason for miners to try to circumvent the locks. |
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| Accompanied by his wife, they set off on 26 May 1818 to stay in Flanders where Davy was invited to by the coal miners. |
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| The coal miners of Spain were active in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. |
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| This colliery was developed in 1805, and its miners bought it out at the end of the 20th century, to prevent it from being closed. |
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| The connection with radon gas was first recognized among miners in the Ore Mountains near Schneeberg, Saxony. |
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| Limburg miners at the Zwartberg mine rioted in 1966 to protest its closure. |
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| Two miners were killed by police and ten were injured, while nineteen policemen were hurt. |
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| The trapped miners heard the rescuers, the rescuers heard the trapped miners. |
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| All of the 74 miners in Goffin's part survived and were brought to the surface. |
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| In the 1880s, miners in Hainaut were recruited by the Dominion Coal Company in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. |
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| He initially preached to and lived among the coal miners, later suffering a breakdown and deciding to become an artist. |
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| In subsequent adventures in the series, the children change roles and become explorers or miners. |
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| It was a tearful and heartfelt reunion as the trapped miners finally saw their dear loved ones again. |
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| The wages amounted to a few pence more than given in Poor Law relief and miners worked to keep out of the workhouse. |
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| Long strikes were unsustainable as the miners had no organisation or finances to back them up. |
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| On 18 December 2015, miners at Kellingley worked their final shift, marking the end of Great Britain's deep coal mining industry. |
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| There has been conflict between the mine owners and the miners for more than 200 years. |
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| A strike by miners in 1792 for higher wages at the Duke of Norfolk's collieries near Sheffield is an early example. |
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| Many relics from the mining operations were discovered there still in situ as the miners left them. |
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| The garments were sold by local merchants to, among other places, the coal miners of the North East of England. |
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| Other ideas about Grimspound include supposed uses as an Iron Age fort, an encampment for tin miners and even a Phoenician settlement. |
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| The next question is where the winfall is going. Partly to profits at various levels, e.g. higher wages for the miners, partly to sloppery. |
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| The miners hurriedly prepared for winter as the termination dust settled on the slopes above them. |
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| The subtext, unworded but looming, was that, like coal miners, poets have to make a living, and Shapiro had children. |
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| The gold miners and the borax miners and the railroad workers. |
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| A deadly mudslide in the mountainous province of Benguet buried gold miners in three work camps. |
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| The following year, it wound up docked in Sacramento, converted into a roofed storeship selling goods to miners. |
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| Beatings and long hours were common, with some child coal miners and hurriers working from 4 am until 5 pm. |
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| Many current towns and villages across the region were originally settlements set up for the coal miners. |
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| Davy declined to take out a patent on his lamp design effectively giving it to the nation and of course the world's coal miners. |
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| The mine is commemorated by a large sculpture of a miners lamp at the entrance to the stadium complex. |
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| As late as the 1970s, the number of miners working in the area was still in six figures. |
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| In 1854, Chartist demands were put forward by the miners at the Eureka Stockade on the gold fields at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. |
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| In 1910, a number of coal miners in the Rhondda Valley began what has come to be known as the Tonypandy Riot. |
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| In July 1925, a Commission of Inquiry reported generally favouring the miners position rather than that of the mine owners. |
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| The latter incident, in 1828, killed the two most senior miners, and Brunel himself narrowly escaped death. |
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| The Witwatersrand Gold Rush of 1886 encouraged large numbers of Cornish miners to migrate to the South African Republic. |
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| It has a tradition of carols stemming from the Cornish who settled the area as gold miners in the 19th century. |
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| Going to the neighbouring village of Kingswood, in February 1739, Whitefield preached in the open air to a company of miners. |
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| As tin mining in Cornwall began to decline, miners took their expertise and traditions to new mining regions around the world. |
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| To encourage the good will of the knockers, miners would leave a small part of the pasty within the mine for them to eat. |
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| On the flight the flame was carried inside 4 miners lamps supplied by Protector Lamp of Eccles, Greater Manchester. |
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| The miners maintained resistance for a few months before being forced, by their own economic needs, to return to the mines. |
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| The images of crowds of militant miners attempting to prevent other miners from working proved a shock even to some supporters of the strikes. |
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| The NUM never held a strike vote, which allowed many miners to keep working and prevented other unions from supporting the strike. |
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| From 15,000 miners in 1947, Rhondda had just a single pit within the valleys producing coal in 1984, located at Maerdy. |
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| In 1926, British miners went on strike over their appalling working conditions. |
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| The miners tried to continue alone, but without TUC support had eventually to give in. |
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| In February Kosovar Albanians demonstrated in large numbers against the proposal, emboldened by striking miners. |
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| He was popular with the miners because of the respect they had for his father. |
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| William Davis Miners' Memorial Day is celebrated in coal mining towns to commemorate the deaths of miners at the hands of the coal companies. |
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| The Men of the Deeps are a male choral group of current and former miners from the industrial Cape Breton area. |
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| The miners had rejected the owners' demands for longer hours and reduced pay in the face of falling prices. |
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| Soon afterwards, a massive influx in immigration into the area resulted, as prospectors and miners arrived by the thousands. |
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| Enlistment resulted in a decline of efficiency, since the remaining miners were less skilled, older or in poor physical condition. |
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| Before long, Hardie was looked to by other miners as a logical chairman for their meetings and spokesman for their grievances. |
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| Three weeks later, Hardie was chosen by the miners as their delegate to a National Conference of Miners to be held in Glasgow. |
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| The young couple moved to the town of Cumnock, where Keir set to work organising a union of local miners, a process which occupied nearly a year. |
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| Despite extensive efforts to rescue the remaining miners, on 16 September South Wales Police confirmed that all four had died. |
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| The miners and miners' representative shall be paid for their time during all inspections and investigations. |
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| Its aim was to ensure both a good return for the Cornish miners and a stable price for the users of copper. |
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| Y Darian, as it was known, strongly supported the trade union movements among the miners and ironworkers of the valleys. |
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| The miners disagreed and stayed on strike for a further seven months until they were starved into surrendering. |
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| The Rhondda miners were also active in socialist activities outside the valleys. |
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| In the 1920s, a major unemployment relief programme for out of work miners was created to build mountain roads connecting communities together. |
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| Also, Yorkshire was more enthusiastic about the strike than Nottinghamshire where many miners refused to strike. |
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| At the beginning of the war the Government, underestimating the value of strong younger coal miners, conscripted them into the armed forces. |
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| This caused a deal of upset, as many young men wanted to join the fighting forces and felt that as miners they would not be valued. |
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| The bodies of only 11 of the miners underground at the time of the explosion were recovered. |
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| In 1845, whilst visiting Carclew in Cornwall, he met several Cornish miners who were going to Australia. |
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| A coroner's court found that the explosion had been caused by a naked light held by one of the miners. |
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| The water flowing down the tunnel towards the cages is real, apart from the fact it now flows down a channel rather than over the miners feet. |
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| Striking coal miners in the Hanley and Longton area ignited the nationwide 1842 General Strike and its associated Pottery Riots. |
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| Devon's tin miners enjoyed a substantial degree of independence through Devon's Stannary Parliament, which dates back to the 12th century. |
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| Many miners from the district have emigrated over the last century in order to find mining jobs abroad. |
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| One result was escalating social tensions in Britain, led by the militant coal miners. |
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| The peaceful demonstrations degenerated into violence, prompting the intervention of coal miners summoned by Iliescu. |
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| Archaeologists around the world use drones to speed up survey work and protect sites from squatters, builders and miners. |
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| The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste. |
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| Many of the sappers were miners of Serbian origin sent from Novo Brdo by the Serbian despot. |
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| In 2013, there was a mass deportation of illegal miners, more than 4,000 of whom were Chinese nationals. |
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| Among their ancestors were merchants and miners trading gold into the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds from medieval times. |
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| Occupational studies show stone workers and miners have more rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, MS and scleroderma. |
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| Plants which are heavy nectar-bearers and fruit bearers may encourage territorial birds such as noisy miners and pied currawongs. |
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| Artisanal or illegal miners work through local caudillos, mayors, and even some legislators, as we have seen in Peru. |
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| In Haines, artists, craftsmen, wilderness guides, and telecommuters mix on Main Street with fishers, gyppo loggers, evangelists, and miners. |
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| This story of coal miners who become coal-owners and rivals for the affections of La Dietrich is the purest and oldest ackamarackus. |
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| As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore. |
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| The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool. |
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| It gained popularity in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and amongst tin miners in Cornwall. |
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| It gained popularity in the old mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, also amongst tin miners in Cornwall. |
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| The more pay dirt the miners process, the more gold they potentially find. |
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| By the late 1800s, lumbermen, settlers and miners began to pass through to take up homesteads, search for gold and to access the abundant timber resources. |
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| The removal of such taxes would encourage small-scale miners and traders to sell their gold to the BSP rather than on the black market according to Reps. |
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| Jackson, and fifteen other investors, the firm set out to provide garments suitable for western farmers, ranchers, lumbermen, coal miners, and other workers. |
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| Two miners, Jonas Isang, 24, and Eddie Latigo, 50, were confirmed dead. |
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| In August 1941 WAAC commissioned Moore to draw miners working underground at the Wheldale Colliery in Yorkshire, where his father had worked at the start of the century. |
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| Coat miners seeking union rights were fired by their employers and kicked out of company towns that gouged them by forcing them to use company scrip. |
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| My mother would spend hours orting through cheques and donaons, the postman came with sacks f mail that indicated the level of suport there was for the miners. |
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| At the same time an appeal is being diplomatically made to relatives of miners who have died from pneumoconiosis to allow scientists to examine their lungs. |
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| Rasmussen's work with coal miners led to research that helped recognize pneumoconiosis, more commonly known as black lung disease, as an occupational health illness. |
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| The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries... and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax. |
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| Once widely practised by many miners across the moor, by the early 1900s only a few tinners remained, and mining had almost completely ceased twenty years later. |
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| The discovery of extensive tin deposits in Malaya in the later 19th century had a major impact on the Dartmoor industry, and many miners emigrated. |
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| In August 1886, Hardie's ongoing efforts to build a powerful union of Scottish miners were rewarded when there was formed the Ayrshire Miners Union. |
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| The third worst mining disaster in the country was at Hulton Colliery Company's Pretoria Pit in 1910 when a faulty lamp caused an explosion killing 344 miners. |
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| The library was essential in facilitating a level of educational achievement that allowed some miners and their children to escape the toil of mine work. |
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| By refusing to accept the terms miners were locked out of the pits. |
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| Walloon miners from Charleroi also emigrated to Alberta, Canada. |
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| In the US alone, more than 100,000 coal miners were killed in accidents in the twentieth century, 90 percent of the fatalities occurring in the first half of the century. |
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| Early Derbyshire lead mines were fairly shallow, since methods to remove water were inefficient and miners had to stop when they reached the water table. |
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| In late November, a mine collapse in the northwestern department of Chinandega took the lives of four artisanal miners, known locally as guiriseros. |
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| A shaft is sunk to reach the mineral which is excavated by miners, transported to the surface by a winch, and removed by means of a bucket, much like a well. |
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| We have learned that on Thursday, October 18, a group of men armed with machetes brutally killed six Afro-Colombian gold miners as they worked in the Department of Choco. |
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| An announced reorganisation of the Belgian coal mines in 1965 resulted in strikes and a revolt which led to the death of two coal miners in 1966 at the Zwartberg mine. |
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| Because of exhausted seams, high prices and cheap imports, the mining industry disappeared almost completely, despite the militant protests of some miners. |
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| Coal miners were highly militant and had defeated Prime Minister Heath. |
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| People whose health is affected by the environment they live in can be dubbed a climate canary, after the canaries which used to warn miners of poison gas. |
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| In South Wales, the miners showed a high degree of solidarity. |
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| Each frame contained three compartments, one above the other, each big enough for one man to excavate the tunnel face, and the whole frame accommodated 36 miners. |
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| Arthurdale and Eleanor, West Virginia, federally funded New Deal communities, were Eleanor Roosevelt's projects to ease the burden of the depression on coal miners. |
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