Sentence examples for exploitation of iron from inspiring English sources

In the Sahara region, however, a modern export economy is developing, based on the exploitation of iron ore and copper resources and of the rich fishing waters off the continental shelf.

The exploitation of iron ore at the Zouérate mines from the mid-20th century and the development of the port at Nouâdhibou have transformed this region of Mauritania into a major focus of the country's economy.

A traditional trade centre of the Marampa Masimera chiefdom for rice and palm oil and kernels, it developed after 1933 with the exploitation of iron ore, mined at Marampa, 4 miles (6 km) east.

Steel production was originally based on exploitation of the iron ore deposits extending from Lorraine into the southwestern corner of the grand duchy.

Conakry became industrialized in the 1950s with the development of iron mining on the Kaloum Peninsula and the exploitation of bauxite on the nearby Los Islands.

In the 1950s exploitation of the extensive iron-ore deposits, known as the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, was begun near Zhelezogorsk and developed very rapidly; much is mined by open-pit methods.

Though it creates a powerful picture of exploitation and inequality, "Iron Crows" is less a piece of advocacy than an unsettling hybrid of art and witness.

The economic growth of early Minnesota was related closely to the exploitation of its primary natural resources soils, iron ore, and timber which in turn stimulated the growth of such ancillary activities as railroad building, natural resource processing, and agricultural implement manufacturing.

Harvesting of the gastropods Hexaplex trunculus and Bolinus brandaris is an example of the successive exploitation of marine resources from the Iron Age until the thirteenth century in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The city is also a mining centre owing to the exploitation of one of the world's largest deposits of iron ore at Mercado Hill, just to the north.

Cambodia's small quantities of iron and coal have not justified commercial exploitation.