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At the end of each shift in the minefields, the deminers detonate the mines they've found in situ.
It spread west into Dakota territory, however, where other Sioux deplored gold seekers crossing their territory to mines in western Montana.
The mansions still stand, but the mines have closed and the town has declined.
Producing nuclear bombs, land mines and missile defense systems are not reducing threats from abroad.
The insurgents place the mines on a road surface or shoulder or even in sewer lines.
It is a gangue mineral in ores from the Star, Hobo, and Princess mines at Central, Grant County.
Within two years the affected mines had recovered sufficiently to have doubled and, in some cases, trebled their profits.
Heavy, bulky freight for the mines still had to be hauled by teams of pack animals over the old, primitive zigzag trails to the mines.
In rehearsals, somehow, he digs deep and mines the heart of each scene, but not for a display of demonstrative emotion.
As we move to the future we must get used to replacing conventional hand-emplaced mines with scatterable mines.
The subterranean mines excavated beneath a fortress often had several galleries each with a terminal chamber holding large amounts of gunpowder.
There is radon gas in uranium mines because the disintegration of uranium leads to radium, which then forms radon as shown in the equation above.
Thousands of Zimbabwean mineworkers from mines owned by Rio Tinto have gone on strike to demand a 150 percent salary increment.
What has never been established is whether X5 had accomplished her mission and fixed limpet mines to Tirpitz's hull.
Mine operators deferred new mines in recent years because future reserves tend to be in deeper, thinner seams.
By contrast it's Fiorentino who mines the heroic in Eroica whilst Hatto exploits little agogics in the score to hint at the wit within.
The Dover Barrage was a combination of nets, mines and searchlights, patrolled by light craft.
Factors such as the infrastructure committed to transporting millions of tonnes of coal from mines to washeries and then to power stations.
Modern land mines may be an encased charge of explosive or may contain a chemical agent or incendiary device.
Young girls of eight or nine worked down the mines hauling coal just so the families could exist.
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A highlight will also be a visit to Badakhshan's long lost balas ruby mines and a side trip to the Russian emerald mines.
The OPFOR was duped and forced to deplete quantities of air scatterable mines to cover what was thought to be two separate attacks.
Control on the mines was exercised by white compound managers and supervisors through African indunas and isibonda.
There is going to be a very definite detection of mines and some bombs that have not been detonated off the coast of Hawaii.
When she walked through the mines and penitentiaries the prisoners there often appeared surprised at her hopelessness.
Their subject is the narrow gauge railway that for 70 years connected the coal mines at Cliff Top with the coke ovens at Sewell.
Those islanders were forced to work under horrific conditions in the guano mines of Peru.
I talk myself out of imagining world war-styled bombing blitzes or trench warfare, and replaced them with images of land mines and machine guns.
With no new mines anticipated for the northern section of the coalfield the port's commodity hinterland had effectively vanished.
State officials retained considerable economic control and allowed uneconomic factories and mines to continue operating.
While in the Senior Service Mr Allingham serviced aircraft and acted as a spotter for submarines and mines during the Battle of Jutland.
Cornish production supplied most of the needs of Britain and Europe until the mid-19th cent. when many mines were worked out.
The danger from mines was at the forefront of everybody's mind when the squadron deployed.
Sulphur emissions from the gold and copper mines have denuded the hills of growth.
After a spell on the road gangs, some thirty more were sent for several years to the coal mines at Newcastle, reopened for them.
The wells are better than strip mines for the coal itself, but the governors suggest camouflaging the wells.
I recommend claymore mines and Blackhawk helicopters to make sure you get him.
The reef mines sank far underground, and used expensive machinery and complex metallurgical processes to separate the gold from the waste rock.
The rails that trains run on underground in coal mines are stacked on bogeys in a pyramid shape.
Both diamond and gold mines housed black workers in single-sex compounds, issuing contracts of limited duration.
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Among other things, he detonated mines and bombs left behind from the Vietnam War.
One record-breaking day in 1864 saw the company haul three tons of silver bullion from the mines of Virginia City, Nevada alone.
There were many nostalgic reunions of men who worked in the mines together, several of whom had not met since those hardworking days.
It's a really interesting area, topographically even, with all the wild mines and huge manmade mountains.
Numerous government officials either have stakes in the mines or are bribed to overlook regulation breaches.
Atomic bombs, depleted uranium, napalm, defoliant agents, nerve gas, and land mines have been used in recent years.
In 1570, the Spanish decreed that the natives would be forced to work in the rich silver mines on the altiplano.
The new generation of windmills is going up on former rangeland, exhausted oil fields, reclaimed coal mines and old farms.
As I stepped out of our vehicle, I detonated one of the mines with my right heel.
They demanded the nationalisation of the mines and the expropriation of the landlords.
But what 30 years of strip mines haven't destroyed, they've closed off and guarded.
The locations of the mines were then confirmed using underwater navigation and communications technology.
The nature reserve is covered with quarry pits, grooves, and mines resulting from Roman and later workings.
They could come out and put mines in the water, meaning the clearance effort would be for nothing.
Efforts to shut down dangerous coal mines have been complicated by the country's demands for power to feed its booming economy.
Rich diamond mines and oilfields in the country mean that a wide range of corporations and countries have an interest in the outcome of the war.
The family also owned lucrative coal mines in the area and run-off from these added to the pollution.
The diamond mines of Golconda were legendary, but gradually rich deposits were discovered in many other countries.
One managed to negotiate the harbour's torpedo nets and attach a warhead to the cruiser's hull, and attach magnetic mines to other ships.
He underwent additional training and spent five months clearing mines in the desert.
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Stratoni lead and zinc mines were condemned recently after a nearby gold mine was closed on environmental grounds.
As in other mining camps, ethnic groups settled in their own neighborhoods but worked together in the mines and drank together in the saloons.
In some cases, peat excavated from mines or reserve pits has been stockpiled.
Once the plastic wrap and sticky labels and claymore mines are all safely removed, I'll take my treasure to the family room downstairs.
The main mission is the clearance of mines in the entrance to ports, naval bases and coastal sea lanes.
Reestablishment of scrub vegetation on phosphate mines has been attempted with varying success.
In the area where I live, there were generous redundancy payments when the coal mines closed.
Approaches were obstructed by anti-tank and anti-personnel mines and barbed wire, and covered by anti-tank guns and machine-guns.
Some of the mines move using rocket thrusters, others use a hopping mechanism and hold enough fuel to make 100 leaps.
While methane in coal mines is responsible for unintentional explosions, it can be a substitute for natural gas.
American Gilsonite Company mines and processes the mineral known as asphaltum, uintaite or uintahite under the brand name Gilsonite.
The Spanish seized Mayan lands and enslaved their populations, sending many to labor in the mines of northern Mexico.
Eruptions of natural gas were observed from very early times and the dangers of firedamp in mines were soon realized.
So, on the night of 3 November, 1940, magnetic and acoustic mines parachuted down from the Heinkels into the sea close to Milford Haven.
He was born in Ostrava, an industrial city six hours east of Prague, and grew up in the midst of its coal mines in a family of six children.
Using canoes they penetrated the enemy's shipping lines in the approaches to Singapore and placed limpet mines destroying three vessels.
It's like watching two kids in a sandpit, armed with claymore mines and chewing on detonator caps.
Most, if not all, of these mines have likely produced specimen-quality hematite, goethite, and perhaps other minerals.
He was also born a slave, worked in mines and as a houseboy after Emancipation, and arrived at the new Hampton black college broke and dirty.
The acoustic imaging sensors help detect mines and other potentially hazardous objects.
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The antipersonnel mines are activated by tripwires that will explode by the presence of a civilian or combatant.
As mines and quarries opened in Lancashire in the 18th and 19th centuries a few Cornishmen came North, bringing with them mining expertise.
Over the next 40 years, many companies worked mines along the difficult Mokau River.
Men who were expert in underground siege methods laboured to outwit each other in subterranean passages known as mines and countermines.
The last issue covers agriculture, forestry, pastoralism, mines and Industry.
It is by far the most common method of working in European coal mines where the shallower seams have been depleted.
For ground vehicles, mines are dispensed 25 to 60 meters from the vehicle at ground speeds of 5 to 55 mph.
Conditions in mines and quarries, brickfields, and warehouses were regulated separately.
Methane is already captured from coal mines and landfills in the United States and used to generate electricity.
The snivel, therefore, from our mines to to jack up its delivery services is not only opportune but one which should be taken seriously.
The group said it will begin tests in May using land mines without gunpowder.
In that case British warships were damaged by mines in Albanian territorial waters.
When the mines had detonated the machine gunners and everybody else opened fire.
In Socratic style he mines the best of each perspective for the gold nugget of truth.
Again a number of devices were found, divers descended attaching lines and bringing the mines aboard.
The company's mines supply ironsand to the Glenbrook mill, as well as to customers in North Asia.
Impeding their progress are land mines studding the landscape and threatening every turn of the wheels.
The temporary lay-off of over 650 workers at the mines will begin on November 17 and 50 workers will be kept on for essential maintenance.
The original planning consent for the Selby mines would have seen the land restored to agricultural use.
Often the mines have been laid in agricultural land, making it unusable and so a jungle grows up, making the mines even more difficult to find.
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It is thought that up to five mines and several thousand jobs could have been lost without the subsidy.
A 1907 attempt by labor organizers to unionize the Ashio copper mines was only put down by thousands of army troops.
The American environmental architect has been hired to transform exhausted mines into landscape features.
There are an estimated 1,000 square miles of the country which are still littered with mines or unexploded bombs.
Two of those mines are located on lands in which they have the mineral rights.
In medieval times, stages of wood and canvas were set up in churches and market squares for the performance of mines and miracle plays.
An April 2002 cease-fire put a stop to the 25-year civil war, though millions of undetonated mines are still believed to litter the countryside.
The removal of rubble has become industrial in scale, with huge lorries with six-foot wheels normally used in strip mines carting it away.
Jerusalem's Temple is destroyed, and it's back to the salt mines of oppression for those people who insist on calling themselves God's elect.
The total production to 1926 was about 5,000,000 tonnes of argentiferous galena from around 300 mines and prospects.
Originally these mines had TNT-filling, but Finnish manuals list only mines with amatol filling.
The trail once led from the cinnabar or quicksilver mines of Mount St Helena to the port of San Pablo.
For protection against mines the vehicle is fitted with a floor spall liner and 18 mm armour plate in the floor.
Although over 25,000 are killed or maimed each year, we have begun to remove mines worldwide.
There have been a series of summer transfer stories which have had the fans working long and hard in the salt mines that are the football forums.
It was found in gossan from a dump of one of the small mines on the southeastern side of the mountain on the World's Fair claim group.
The name Blue John very likely was made up by John Kirk and Joseph Hall who worked the mines in the 18th Century.
Factories were henceforth sited near coal mines and large towns grew up to house the factory workers.
This is particularly relevant in the West Gower section where there are no modern mines or opencast sites.
Among the refinements currently under discussion is a redesignation of antipersonnel mines as unlawful.
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Most in-patients, according to him, are not even remotely connected with the mines and the union.
There has been a concerted effort to match supply to demand, with plants being mothballed and mines on temporary shutdown.
The crew of both remaining cockleshells placed limpet mines on the merchant ships they found in the harbour.
Interesting thin plates of silver coating rhodonite and diopside in massive galena are reported from the mines at Garpenberg, Sweden.
Crick was working on magnetic mines for the Admiralty while Jim was a very young student at the University of Chicago.
His work mines similar territory to the psychogeographic fictions of Iain Sinclair.
But I'd hate to live next to one of the huge strip mines in Tennessee or the pit mines in Wyoming or the iron mines in Minnesota.
Starting in the mid-fifteenth century, the decorative stone serpentine was quarried in many small mines in Zoblitz, near Marienberg in Saxony.
Much of the knowledge of the fauna of the Beringian Corridor has been the result of finds at mines all over the region.
The start of a three week blockage of the Suez Canal by the Germans placing magnetic and acoustic mines there.
The western reclaimed strip mines may support the largest Henslow's Sparrow populations in the Northeast.
It also governs landscape features that delve down into the earth such as mines and quarries, wells, caves, holes or obscure valleys.
There are homing rockets, underwater torpedoes, water mines and cannon shells plus a few others to hunt down enemy boats.
The munitions include light and heavy weapons, mines and other types of weaponry.
The mines were found by his ship's company concealed below decks in a barge.
The now privatised Zambian mines have recently been recapitalised by the new owners Anglo-American Corporation.
Two reclaimed strip coal mines in Somerset County are now dotted with windmills that produce pollution-free power.
Weiler's survey found that the use of land mines to kill tigers, deer, wild cattle and other animals was widespread.
Their sleek build enabled them to sail under large vessels so that frogmen could plant limpet mines on their hulls.
The railway and road construction works require the removal of land mines strewn across the demilitarized zone.
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The ones who were still working the mines by choice were paid at the end of the week, I found out.
One day the Norwegian mine clearers bring up a huge metal mechanised flail, beat the mines out of the earth and lay out a football pitch.
It can play a part in locating old mines by detecting voids and fractures and profiling old workings within the seam.
This bug took him to Bosnia, where a local film crew playfully scooped up live mines and waved them around for fun.
He explained that Ongopolo mines and processes base metal, mainly copper, but also associated precious metals such as gold and silver.
Land mines continue to exact a terrible toll on civilian populations around the world.
Control over these smaller mines remains in many cases, almost non-existent due to local corruption and paybacks from officials.
In 1945, Germany had mined much coal but had no way of moving it from the mines to where it was needed.
This work has helped to increase the efficiency and profitability of Yukon placer mines in spite of rising production costs and low gold prices.
This non-partisan, volunteer-run site mines parliamentary data to hold them to account.
Soldiers will examine the data to identify suspected mines and minefield locations.
All these rabbits lived in this space, because they could jump around the minefields without making the mines explode.
Scottish Coal employs more than 1,000 at opencast mines in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Fife, supplying 4.3 million tons of coal a year to the power industry.
When daylight comes, 20 teams of sappers patrol the city's streets as they do every morning, clearing mines laid by rebel fighters the night before.
Inside these are drums for the mine tether cables that would have been attached to mines resting in the bowl-shaped indentation on the upper side of the trolley.
These grubs create straight, narrow mines as they tunnel into the leaves, followed by larger, brown or yellow blisters as they grow and feed inside the foliage.
Labor conditions in the mines were so harsh that many sickened and died, especially from silicosis, or black lung disease, within months of their arrival.
The mines were intended as anti-personnel devices, jury-rigged claymores.
Austria produces some petroleum and natural gas to meet its own needs, and it also mines coal, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, antimony, and graphite, used in industry.
He grew up in Chisholm, Minn., among the iron mines near where his mother worked in a factory.
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A lot of men went into the mines where some mine companies actually actively promote drinking for the mineworkers in their off-hours to keep them a little bit complacent.
Undetonated mines still lurk around the designated military sites and visitors should consequently side step any scrap metal objects at all costs.
The vast space enclosed by the ramparts have allowed the occupants to farm the area, with lynchets spreading across the camp and encroaching on the flint mines to the west.
The coal mines and hot metal furnaces that transformed the region into Europe's industrial engine a century ago have long since shut down, destroying 500,000 jobs.
Parasitoids overwinter as pupae in mines within fallen leaves.
Closures of schools, hospitals, and mines and factories like the ones in Sardinia are the direct results of the austerity cuts.
He opens a window onto England's coal-fueled economy at the turn of the century, with vivid descriptions of the mines and the canals that were constructed to barge the coal.
However, new gold mines are becoming conflict-free as a result of the reform efforts.
Very little remains of the old silver mines at Glen Osmond, apart from some of the old shafts, adits and the chimney, the oldest mine building in Australia.
Dave mines the vernacular of popular culture and traditional imagery, filtering it through his contemporaneity as an artist of the South Asian diaspora.
When the mines closed, decades of labor and planning were destroyed after half a life of ruinous work.
When the Second World War broke out, Crick was put to work for the British Navy developing magnetic and acoustic mines for use against German submarines and ships.
Underground mining for coal is poised to make a comeback in Scotland with plans for two drift mines into the vast Canonbie reserves in Dumfries and Galloway.
Of course when we found the mines on board, that vindicated our concerns.
Some wire silver from the White Raven and Black Jack mines of the Ward district, Boulder County, were coated with acicular crystals of primary acanthite.
He organizes his charges to defuse land mines in order to earn their keep.
The collapsible grapnel is a hand-thrown grapnel hook that is used for climbing, removing mines and other objects, and pulling concertina and barbed wire obstacles.
Here are the cotton mills and factories, the coal mines and back-to-back cottages from which he drew inspiration as he walked the streets of Pendlebury and Salford.
Themed tour routes, which include tours of Joburg's mines and Soweto's historical Vilakazi Street, were being explored as packages to market to tour operators.
After these goldrushes, and the return of experienced, but mostly unsuccessful diggers, gold, copper, and silver mines were in production within a short time.
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My grandfather worked in coal mines in Ireland and England for seven years, 10 hours a day, until he left his family forever and came to Minneapolis.
Highly inflammable methane gas, pumped out harmlessly when mines were open, is building up in abandoned shafts and posing a potential threat to people living on the surface.
An employer now requires approval from the Director of Inspection with responsibility for mines only when the gross weight of such a machine is over 32,000 kilograms.
Most of the coal trains are serving mines around Gillette, WY, but some of them originate north of Dutch and join the mainline at West Dutch via a wye.
It was Kuna territory in 1600 when the Spaniards built a small fort at El Real to protect the river route to the gold mines in the Rio Tuira headwaters.
In the '80s, working-class males were perceived as being emasculated by the way all their old jobs had shifted, the mines and steelworks and all that being shut down.
Every product purchased and scanned goes into some retailer's database, which then mines the data to see what, how much, when and where people are buying.
The ubiety between runoff and deposit is the primary factor that brings on the particularity of hydrogeology characteristics about mines along river.
Since mines don't emit sounds, produce heat, make transient sounds or poke periscopes through the surface of the water to attack their prey, minemen have to look for shapes.
Following thousands of emigrants pouring into the United States and Canada, they settled in western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh's coal mines and steel mills.
Many mines have zones of high-grade ore that are very profitable to mine.
Here, Cattrall casts off every remnant of glamour and determinedly mines her ugly side.
I had an aunt in Vietnam who planted limpet mines in Haiphong harbor.
Stout's team of up to 20 soldiers spent their days and nights clearing roads of bombs and mines so that supply trucks could safely travel throughout the region.
They also use homemade blast mines and grenades with trip wires.
How an old political feud that sprouted 17 years ago amid the deep coal mines of Appalachia was settled this Spring in a Kentucky state Senate primary.
But as new coal mines are developed, prices will ease somewhat.
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.
He supervises the kids as they dig up and dismantle these mines in order to sell them on the underground arms market for food and other necessaries.
It carried passengers in new stagecoaches and freight from the mines using twelve-mule teams and prairie schooners pulled by sixteen oxen plus six spare animals.
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Fifty school principals and mukhtars from the newly liberated area were lectured on how to educate students and residents about the dangers of land mines on Sunday.
Senior officers say the 21st-Century threat goes far beyond the limpet mines and similar devices ships' divers were expected to cope with four decades ago.
It is clear from excavations that there was also intensive exploitation of mines and metalworking activity, to produce both weaponry and toreutic works.
Additional mines were used to destroy the palisades of the covered passage and the supporting walls of the counterscarp or scarp, thus facilitating entry into the fortress.
Once this had been introduced, the Germans began to use acoustic mines which were detonated by the sound of a ship's propeller acting on a diaphragm within them.
In particular, the logic of the gold mines seemed to rule supreme.
Click here to see a photo of Galbraith and Fairchild posing in front of barbed wire that marked off mines in the zone.
However, de-miners crawling on their bellies to identify, excavate, and destroy mines remain the default modus operandi.
Carpenters also build tunnel bracing, or brattices, in underground passageways and mines to control the circulation of air through the passageways and to worksites.
Plus, more and bigger mines in the DRC are coming on tap as certified conflict-free.
Xinhua said on Wednesday that China plans to close down another 30 per cent of its small coal mines this year, and reduce coal mine deaths by 10 per cent.
They were primarily used to attach limpet mines to moored ships, bridges, and so on and also for clearing underwater obstacles with plastic explosives.
After sweeping for almost a year, in May 1946, the Navy abandoned the effort with 13,000 mines still unswept.
As the mines became deeper and ventilation become more difficult to control the risk increased.
Commercially, the once important Cardiganshire lead mines exported from this location.
During a period of five months from June 1918 almost 70,000 mines were laid spanning the North Sea's northern exits.
He bought shares in eight Cornish copper mines and met Thomas Williams, the 'Copper King' of the Parys Mountain mines in Anglesey.
They often shared routes to allow access to coal mines and ironworks through rugged country, which presented great engineering challenges.
During World War II the National Gallery stored its treasures in one of the mines in the town to protect them from damage or destruction.
Zinc mines are scattered throughout the world, with the main areas being China, Australia, and Peru.
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In 1988, frogmen planted limpet mines on a Greek ferry, the Solphrini, which sank in Limassol harbor in the Greekcontrolled sector of Cyprus.
This tunnel was originally constructed to drain metal mines in Halkyn Mountain.
A hole measuring 6ft by 8ft was found in the boat and divers recovered remnants of limpet mines unavailable in New Zealand.
His technique resembled that used at Zawar zinc mines in Rajasthan, but no evidence suggests he visited the Orient.
As part of this interest he bought shares in eight of the mines to help provide capital.
A number of militaries have employed dolphins for various purposes from finding mines to rescuing lost or trapped humans.
The intention was to attach limpet mines to the ships thereby disrupting trade and destroying materiel and ships.
Cornish engines were used in mines and for water supply until the late 19th century.
By 1921 the coal mines were employing 250,000 men, but this was the peak and in subsequent decades the overseas market began to shrink.
They have also been trained by militaries to locate sea mines or detect and mark enemy divers.
As more and more coal mines were sunk the population grew to fill the jobs needed to extract the coal.
As the mines and other industries rapidly expanded throughout the coalfield, nearby towns also expanded to meet the demand for labour.
Large diameter vertical wheels of Roman vintage, for raising water, have been excavated from the Rio Tinto mines in Southwestern Spain.
Soon the invaders were laying siege to the Congolese diamond mines at Mbuji-Mayi.
Naval civilian research facilities for demagnetization and mines center in Institute 710, in Yichang.
The extensive Late Neolithic shaft mines in north Jutland and Scania testify to the demand for top-quality Senonian flint.
Training was tough, with mines and booby-traps, demolitions, bridge-building, all in wet and dry, and fieldcraft.
At the height of coal production, there were over 160 drift mines and over 30 shafts working the nine seams in the Blaenavon locality.
We are also marking minefields, removing mines and educating people about the threat.
Large mines were also present across the Red Sea in what is now Saudi Arabia.
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Some of them were discovered in 2004, remarkably preserved, in the Hallstatt salt mines near Salzburg, Austria.
He was one of the Scottish tunnellers who was recruited from the mines of Scotland to the Western Front.
It was used primarily in the North-east, and is now thought to be superior to the Davy Lamp used in mines in the rest of the country?
He won the George Medal for his work as a frogman specialising in removing German limpet mines from merchant ships.
Supplies of potassium acetate, the main raw material in most popular de-icer, are short owing to a long strike at potash mines in Canada.
Russian mines sank one Bulgarian torpedo boat and damaged one more during the war.
Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel.
Following the miners' strike, only two deep mines remained working in Wales.
The aircraft can carry a wide array of weapons such as harpoons, torpedoes, depth charges, mines and rockets.
But though there are caves there are no mines in Faroe, in which happy state we hope these mineless isles will remain so far as we are concerned.
Other show caves and mines include the Heights of Abraham, reached by cable car, at Matlock Bath, and Poole's Cavern in Buxton.
David's acquisition of the mines at Alston on the South Tyne enabled him to begin minting the Kingdom of Scotland's first silver coinage.
The revenue of his English earldom and the proceeds of the silver mines at Alston allowed David to produce Scotland's first coinage.
Several other small mines still exist, including the Blaentillery drift mine near to the Big Pit National Coal Museum.
Siphnos kept the treasury abundant with a yearly tithing of revenues and distributed gold and silver from the mines to its islanders.
Although not encouraged by official policy, the use of mines and incendiaries, for tactical expediency, came close to indiscriminate bombing.
Until the 1950s, Herzogenrath's economy was dominated by coal mines and a nearby coking plant.
The country also has substantial reserves of coal, with several coal mines operating in northwestern Bangladesh.
The lead and silver mines at Charterhouse in the Mendip Hills were run by the military.
A number of the major diamond mines located around the world are hosted by Type II kimberlite.
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Coal from the eastern mines was used in lead smelting, and coal from the western mines for lime burning.
Convicts provided much of the labour in the mines or quarries, where conditions were notoriously brutal.
However, a few small licensed mines continue to work seams, mostly from outcrop, on the hillsides.
Other elements of the Industrial Landscape are the mines and quarries from which coal, iron ore, fire clay and limestone were extracted.
The larvae were found between the upper and lower leaf epidermis, feeding on mesophyll tissues and causing mines or blotches on leaves.
The rapid influx of precious metals from the new mines had an inflationary effect on the specie based economy.
It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester.
As the canal passes through Worsley, iron oxide from the mines has, for many years, stained the water bright orange.
Coal from the inland mines in southern County Durham was taken away on packhorses, and then horse and carts as the roads were improved.
It was the reason for opening numerous salt mines in northern Europe and sea saltworks in the south which improved technique of its extraction.
Frontinus extended Roman rule to all of South Wales, and initiated exploitation of the mineral resources, such as the gold mines at Dolaucothi.
His role when not doing work like defusing bombs and mines was to man a machine gun in a half-track.
Gunpowder was needed for the tin mines and granite quarries then in operation on the moor.
Skilled mineworkers were recruited from other regions to the Ruhr's mines and steel mills and unskilled people started to move in.
This was due partly to the relative sparsity of mines and the amount of effort needed for extraction compared to the profit gained.
No deep coal mines are left in the valleys since the closure in 2008 of Tower Colliery in the Cynon Valley.
John Gilbert had the innovative idea to use water pumped out of his coal mines to fill a canal from the Duke's Worsley mines to Manchester.
As mines grew larger the volume of coal extracted increased beyond the pulling capabilities of children.
The large number of gold mines in France is thought to be a major reason why Caesar invaded.
Children as young as four were employed in production factories and mines working long hours in dangerous, often fatal, working conditions.
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When this occurs, the exhausted mines are sometimes converted to landfills for disposal of solid wastes.
In 1984 and 1985, after the government announced plans to close many mines across the UK, mineworkers went on strike.
On 28 February, multiple mines blew up the five docks, the canal, and three locks.
The early rail network in Scotland and important mines in Spain were also areas of interest.
The most significant freight is coal from West Coast mines to the port of Lyttelton for export.
The proxy mines detonate when anyone comes near them and are absolutely wonderful for laying traps.
The Bridgewater Canal, Britain's first wholly artificial waterway, was opened in 1761, bringing coal from mines at Worsley to central Manchester.
In fact, Spanish American mines were the world's cheapest sources of silver during this time period.
One of the main uses for llamas at the time of the Spanish conquest was to bring down ore from the mines in the mountains.
By the early 1540s, he owned 20 silver mines in Sultepec, 12 in Taxco, and 3 in Zacualpan.
The community at Hallstatt was untypical of the wider, mainly agricultural, culture, as its booming economy exploited the salt mines in the area.
New coal mines were sunk nearby to feed the furnaces and in time produced coal for export.
As a child he would watch steam engines pump water from the deep tin and copper mines in Cornwall.
The mines were in a neglected state, caused by careless operations dating back at least to the time of the final fall of Louisbourg.
Typical applications include dredging, cleaning of settling ponds, coal and ore slurries, quarries, mines and many other industries.
Electra mines chalky geyserite, kaolin, copper and gold.Apple Bay covers accessible silica, alumina and geyserite.
A certain percentage of the mines are equipped with an antihandling device to hinder manual breaching.
As a tactic of war, Houthi fighters are accused of placing land mines indiscriminately throughout the area.
Following several weeks of bombardment, the explosives in 19 of these mines were detonated, resulting in the deaths of 10,000 Germans.
Maybe the Tories did intend to close 75 mines but these mines were massively uneconomic and in a war you don't show all your hand.

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