Sentence examples for legacy of mining from inspiring English sources

"This is the key to helping the region recover from this legacy of mining and transition to a non-mining future," Thomas said.

One legacy of mining operations in China is a large number of post-mining landscapes, generally situated in urban areas that thrived during the country's period of industrialization.

But rather than hoping to infiltrate the natural-diamond supply chain, many retailers, including Courbet, are laser-marking their stones to set their jewelry apart from conflict diamonds or the negative legacy of mining.

"In terms of all the work done to date in mine waste remediation, it has been insufficient to protect our communities from the harm left behind from a legacy of mining," says Olson. "What we really need now is to rethink our approach.

At the same time the physical legacy of mining has generated a number of obstacles to urban development.

The differences in handling the physical legacy of mining in the presented cases have a number of causes.

It's very funny, and ends up as a chaotic, awfully choreographed piece of music and dance, which is my little nod, shall we say, to a certain legacy of mine".

The international campaign against landmines, which first came to prominence when Diana, Princess of Wales became a figurehead for the movement, has made significant progress in clearing the legacy of mine contamination in countries as diverse as Mozambique, Angola and Cambodia.

The legacy of mines long since closed still marks the landscape, politics and cultural identity of the area.

Typical physical legacies of mining activities such as wet areas affected by subsidence or dry, wind-exposed dumps can help to mitigate the impact of UHIs if such sites are made safe, free of pollution and planted with specific forms of vegetation to create valuable habitats.

As a legacy of its mining history, Ontario has over 5000 abandoned mines according to the Abandoned Mines Information System (AMIS; Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines), which are illustrated Figure 1a.