Ajo, an old copper mining town, has about 2,500 residents.
Much of the old mining town has been preserved.
Genk, a mining town, has large immigrant community of Turks and Italians.
The avian avatar that lets young Billy fly away from his mining town has an ancient symbolic plumage.
The former mining town has four fur shops and more than 100 other businesses that sell furs.
Now the former mining town has almost disappeared from view, as sand from the encroaching Kalahari Desert slowly swallows its roads and buildings.
PAGE B13 BUSINESS RIDING THE HIGHS AND LOWS Of the Copper Market Morenci, Ariz., a mining town, has ridden the roller coaster ride of copper prices, including the dizzying climb that began in 2003.
MITROVICA, Kosovo — For three months, this gritty mining town has been a hot spot of Balkan ethnic tension ominous enough to prompt new deployments of armed NATO peacekeepers and action by the European Union to slow Serbia's long-sought bid for membership.
Growing up in the rough surroundings of a West Virginia mining town had toughened him up, and he did not mind Cleveland coach Paul Brown's overbearing perfectionism.
Located about 100 miles North of Reno, the mining town has apparently been wiped off the the face of the map, according to the Daily Mail.
