Sentence examples for mined gold from inspiring English sources

The Elandsrand mine, about 40 miles southwest of Johannesburg, is like many old mines on South Africa's Witwatersrand, the biggest and most heavily mined gold deposit on earth.

Female zeks worked in timber-cutting camps and on road-building details, and even mined gold.

The Bechtlers of Rutherfordton, N.C., coined locally mined gold long before the government built a mint in Charlotte.

During the later 18th century, slave-owning Goans and Portuguese mined gold and hunted elephants among the southern Chewa.

The government's precious minerals and marketing commission (PMMC), which buys gold produced in Ghana, told the Guardian it did not buy illegally mined gold.

They said they were told the refiners refused to source directly from the Great Lakes region of Africa and refused scrap gold with impurities associated with mined gold.

Model Karlie Kloss failed to impress with a lace Valentino dress that called out for a curtain rod, but her ethically sourced, Chopard Green Carpet Collection pear, round and marquise-shaped white diamond chandelier earrings set in fair-mined gold were a dazzling distraction.

First mined for gold and later silver, the area achieved most of its wealth through its copper.

At other times, Kibrom said, he had been asked to hunt members of the Rashaida tribe, who he said illegally mined for gold near his military camp.

In this way, bitcoins are mined like gold used to be, in quantities that are small relative to the total supply, so that the supply grows slowly.

In its place is a sort of dirt-factory operation, and the land is not so much cultivated as it is mined for gold.