Sentence examples for mining settlements are from inspiring English sources
Lumber towns and small mining settlements are found along the upland margins of the Columbia basin.
Mining settlements are always skimped and ugly.
The interior, despite scattered ranching and mining settlements, is largely home to Indians.
Tremain's description of the Wallaby, the schooner rounding Cape Farewell, taking prospectors over the treacherous sandbar strewn with wrecks to the grim, storm-lashed gold-mining settlement, is awe-inspiring.
Most of the island's few settlements are mining communities on the west coast.
Most of the state's settlements are small agricultural or mining towns.
Settlements are complicated.
Permanent settlements are generally coastal.
Most operators are based in Longyearbyen, a former mining settlement which is the inspiration for the fictional town of Fortitude, Sky Atlantic's new crime blockbuster.
The first of these immigrant settlements were mining camps, established primarily by Chinese around tin fields in the west.
The earliest settlements were mining communities in the upper Conchos drainage in 1563, intermediate was the colonization of the upper Rio Grande area in New Mexico in 1598, and the last colonization began in 1749 along the lower Rio Grande.
