Sentence examples for forced miners from inspiring English sources

Dr. Hein said dwindling supplies of terrestrial copper — a key ingredient of industrialization used in everything from wires and switches to pipes and roofs — have forced miners on land to go after increasingly low grades of ore and have raised interest in seabed resources.

The ban is intended to force miners to process minerals in the country before shipping them out.

And, armies control the extraction of minerals by forcing miners to work in deadly conditions for low wages.

Namibia and Zimbabwe have plans for the "indigenisation" of mining assets—ie, forcing miners to sell or hand them over to locals.

Ugandan soldiers used to come here, I was told, to force miners to buy beer and cigarettes.

The slowdown in China has deflated prices for Australia's main resource exports while forcing miners to scale back on their most ambitious expansion plans.

For the past two years, Zimbabwe government forces have literally been hacking their way through the Marange fields, forcing miners there to yield their treasure to Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party.

Forcing miners to solve puzzles in order to add to the ledger provides protection: to double-spend a bitcoin, digital bank-robbers would need to rewrite the blockchain, and to do that they would have to control more than half of the network's puzzle-solving capacity.

And on the supply side, much of the "low-hanging fruit" in the resources world has long been plucked, forcing miners and energy companies to seek out ever more remote supplies, such as oil contained in tar sands, under deep water, or around the Arctic.

Developers of Bitcoin ABC included a so-called checkpoint that forces miners to include the first Bitcoin Cash ABC block in any chain, without it the chain is considered invalid by the software client.

It's a miserable disease that forces miners to live out their last days coughing and gasping for air.