Sentence examples for declining mining from inspiring English sources

Two new towns, Newton-Aycliffe and Peterlee, were established to absorb population from declining mining areas.

The school diaries have historical interest and great charm as they record, briefly and unpretentiously, a life of poverty uncomplainingly borne as the son of a drunken widowed miner working in a declining mining valley.

Nevertheless, tin reserves were declining; mining's contribution to the GDP was projected to fall 13% over the course of the Second Malaysia Plan, due to the exhaustion of tin and iron reserves.

Although production has grown exponentially, the grade of the minerals mined is steadily declining, lifting mining costs.

As the Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Welsh metal mines declined and mining in Cornwall and Devon became viable once more.

On the economic front commerce was oriented away from the declining silver mines of Peru and toward direct transatlantic trade with Europe.

But gold mining, which accounts for a large share of the value of mine exports, has declined as mines have become tapped out, and protests have stalled a major new gold-mining project, known as Conga, in the Cajamarca region.

Saint-Étienne became an important coal mining, metallurgical, and textile centre in the 19th century, but these activities have greatly declined; coal mining ended completely in the 1970s.

So, while traditional church may be in decline mine is just starting to thrive.

That is in part because of a recent increase in demand for engineers after years of declining numbers of mining programs and students, said Mr. Taylor.

Manufacturing, once the mainstay of the state, is declining, and the mining boom that led to a high Australian dollar hurt the state's manufacturing sector.