Sentence examples for mining pit from inspiring English sources

Agaba has no sense of a future beyond the mercury-laced waters of the gold mining pit he calls home in Mubende, central Uganda.

But it was only as the house teetered on the edge of a mining pit, in 1896, that anyone began to pay it much attention.

Daniel Higgins, 48, and his 22-year-old son were reportedly shot and hacked to death before being buried in a mining pit by an excavator.

"We've got to play all of our cards," said Greg Stricker, president of Montana Resources, as he gazed over the company's open mining pit and a giant statue of the Virgin Mary that sits high on a mountain above it.

Here we describe the Holocene development of a sheltered fringing reef at Cockatoo Island in the Kimberley, using data from reef cross-sections subaerially exposed in an iron ore mining pit, seismic profiles across the adjacent contemporary reef, and GIS and ground truth mapping of contemporary reef habitats.

I help move the debris from the old mining pit.

Tracks were laid through the open-pit mine, with the length varying.

Despite ore's low concentration of valuable minerals, mining pits offer seamless access and a central location from which metals can be extracted.

"The mining pits in South Shields had just finished being used and we got quite a bit of scrap from them," recalls McLaughlin.

Horses and ponies began to be used in Britain's mining pits in the 18th century, to haul "tubs" of coal and ore from the working face to the lifts, in deep mines, or to the surface in shallower mines.

Do not attempt to discard it in a slag pile, bog, recycling receptacle, or mine pit.