Sentence examples for iron workings from inspiring English sources

Adjacent to his native Balbirnie, the Balgonie estate included coal mines which worked seams described as "inexhaustible" and iron workings.

But first we had to pick our narrow way beside the stream, bending back overhanging branches, clambering up and down steep inclines, passing the overgrown ruins of iron workings and stepping over fragments of tram tracks.

There is also evidence of iron workings in the Romano-British period, at Dunkeswell, which radiocarbon dating has placed in the 2nd century.

Had Google just not ironed out the multitouch workings enough to support it in this first device, or had Apple's patent stranglehold scared them away?

Iron oxide from old mine workings near the source at Irwell Springs had polluted the water since 1969 and in 1997 a Coal Authority survey identified the stretch as having the fourth worst case of minewater pollution in the country.

As Dave Green, the property manager, explains, there's more to the story than the ring – an iron-age site with ancient mine workings known as "the Dwarf's Hill", a curse on the thief who stole the ring, and a strong link to Tolkien himself.

Most of the pyrite oxidation and subsequent iron hydrolysis to iron hydroxide occurred in the underground workings.

Rainfall, primarily occurring early in the year, introduces a relatively small amount of oxygen that is rapidly consumed by reaction with pyrite within the mine workings and by microorganisms that couple its reduction to oxidation of ferrous iron.

The internal workings of a blast furnace used to be something of a mystery, but iron-making chemistry is now well established.

The workings of the mind are mysterious.

It's an iron rule that the more you drink in a pub, the more time you're going to spend in pub toilets (unless your internal workings have more in common with a camel).