Sentence examples for centuries of mining from inspiring English sources
Their base, Teesdale, lies in the Durham Dales, a vast and scenic mix of long open views where communities were previously involved across centuries of mining – first with lead then coal.
He visits one of Britain's biggest open-cast coal mines and sees how this spectacular landscape is being reclaimed after centuries of mining.
While today's dig continues, the Caradon Hill Area Heritage Project has organised studies of alignments between the stones and stars, and the archaeologist guides walks around bronze age features that have survived centuries of mining and quarrying.
Centuries of mining and smelting activities, mostly without any environmental protection technologies, as we know them today, led to a radical alteration of (sub-) local pedogeochemistry with anomalies that may exceed local geogenic background values by several orders of magnitude[10].
The force of this world--which we re-engineered through centuries of mining, fossil-fuel burning, over-fishing, agro-industrial growth, and so on--imposes itself upon our everyday so that we must make a constant effort to make the strange familiar and pretend that everything will be okay.
It's taken two decades to clean up most of Silver Bow Creek, polluted from a century of mining.
The threat posed by the tunnel is the latest misfortune for the town, which is grappling with the wreckage of more than a century of mining.
The flood that trapped the men was a reminder that after a century of mining, the state is honeycombed with abandoned shafts.
A century of mining in the Silver Valley dumped lead, zinc and cadmium into the soil and water in and around Kellogg, the E.P.A. says.
When he visited his brother in Norseman, a remote town in Western Australia, Shaun collected rocks, dirt and rusted gears and other half-buried industrial detritus left over from a century of mining.
Residents of the Coeur d'Alene Basin are seeking compensation from mining companies for the health costs of living in the Silver Valley, where a century of mining has contaminated the air and water.
