The phrase "a mining center" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a location or area that is primarily involved in mining activities or operations.
Example: "The region has developed into a significant mining center, attracting workers and investors from around the world."
Alternatives: "a mining hub" or "a mining site".
It would also turn Afghanistan into a mining center.
San Luis Potosi dates from the 1500's, when it was a mining center.
As far back as ancient times, it was a mining center where silver, lead, iron and copper were dug from the hills that stand sentinel above the gulf.
By today, most of the marchers were returning to their homes in Oruro department, a mining center 150 miles from La Paz.
That would effectively turn Lubumbashi, a mining center and the country's second-largest city, into a de facto rival capital of Kinshasa.
Bob Clarke, who owns a drugstore in Thompson, a mining center in the province's thinly settled north, estimated that pharmacists' wages had soared by about 50percentt since mid-2002.
Paul Desmarais, who transformed a bankrupt bus line in a Canadian mining center into an international conglomerate with $527 billion in assets and, in the process, became one of his country's most powerful businessmen, died on Tuesday at his country estate in the Charlevoix region of Quebec.
The Canadian city of Nanaimo, in British Columbia, has been a scrappy outpost of the Hudson's Bay Company, a coal mining center and a timber town.
The City of Gold originated as a dusty mining center; though it might not have the natural majesty of coastal Cape Town in its court, beneath Johannesburg's grit there's a kinetic urban energy: Big-money deals are made in the metropolis's financial hubs and creative collaborations are unveiled in quirky arts-centric enclaves.
Brauer et al. [3] also estimated that the population-weighted annual average levels of PM2.5 had increased from 44 to 55 µg/m between 1990 and 2005 in East Asia; the highest annual average concentration of PM2.5 measured in 2005 was 58 µg/m in Beijing, and the highest derived PM2.5 concentration (estimated from PM10 measurements) was 121 µg/m in Datong, a coal mining center in Shanxi Province.
Joachimsthal was an important mining center of the time, in particular for silver mining.
