Sentence examples for mining dates from inspiring English sources

Zinc mining dates from ancient times.

Much of the tin used by the early Mediterranean peoples apparently came from the Scilly Isles and Cornwall in the British Isles, where tin mining dates to at least 300 200 bce.

There is evidence of mining dating back to the late Bronze Age, when there were technological changes in metal-working indicating the use of lead.

The southwest of England provides a well-defined example, with a rich history of metal mining dating to the Bronze Age.

The town developed around an old copper mine (dating from the late 13th century) and became the headquarters of the Stora Kopparberg Mining Company, probably the oldest industrial corporation in the world, chartered in 1347.

His team tested the scanners in Cerro de Pasco, Peru, a town in the high Andes with mines dating back 1,400 years.

Countless Afghans lost limbs by stepping on land mines dating from the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan, from 1979 to 1989.

The state is still trying to get money from five corporations that were involved in the mine, dating to the middle of the last century.

Friends of mine dated him, and for that, they were heroes.

A friend of mine dated the guy from this band for a while, and we all got drunk in Philadelphia once.

Local people have worked the ores for many centuries, but commercial mining essentially dates back to the 1920s.