Sentence examples for mining states from inspiring English sources

Prior to the most recent boom in 2010, the largest share of national construction occurred in the non-mining states; now, about $5bn more construction each quarter is in the mining states.

Eager to encourage coal mining, states gave tax breaks as well.

Pennsylvania might keep its coal, the Northwest its timber, the mining States their minerals.

Debates will heat up about the danger that the mining states' successes will come at the expense of manufacturing and other industries elsewhere.

The second was a western brand of working-class radicalism forged by a decade of industrial war in the western mining states.

Other more prominent mining states, like West Virginia and Kentucky, continue to oversee their mines, while the federal agency ensures they abide by federal law.

California is a mining state, and mines offer the most striking temptations to people in a hurry to get rich.

Late polls in the booming mining state of Western Australia suggest Mr Howard may actually win seats there.

In November, a tailings dam in the Brazilian mining state of Minas Gerais burst causing a huge and devastating mudflow.

Unemployment reached 6.4% in Western Australia in July – the highest rate in the mining state in 13 years.

FOR all its Old West mythology, Wyoming is and always will be a mining state, more roughneck than cowboy.