Sentence examples for mining which has from inspiring English sources

Significant erosion is also caused by indiscriminate sand mining, which has resulted in the disappearance of some beaches.

The Obama administration's decision last year to revoke a permit for a huge mine in West Virginia inspired hope that mountaintop mining, which has caused immense environmental damage across Appalachia, would soon be coming to an end.

Another variant of the bitcoin-like peer-to-peer currency principle, peercoin promises increased efficiency of mining, improved security and safeguards to avoid abuse by group mining, which has recently been highlighted as a potential flaw with bitcoin.

Although ArcelorMittal is bidding on a steel plant being sold to the German steel maker ThyssenKrupp in Alabama, the company is mainly focusing on its new investments in mining, which has been more profitable than steel making of late, recording $1.2 billion in operating profit and a 22 percent operating margin last year.

Alan Wolff, a former senior United States trade official and now the chairman of the international trade practice at the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, said the crackdown against illegal mining, which has included numerous raids by Provincial police in northern Guangdong Province, could buttress its defense against W.T.O.

Judge Haden's initial ruling had been denounced by the state's mining and political leaders as the probable death knell for coal mining, which has been increasingly mechanized with 20-story-tall removal machines that have systematically leveled hilltops in Appalachian states rich in low-sulfur coal.

After World War II new industries in the southeast replaced heavy industry and coal mining, which had ceased by the end of the 20th century.

Coal mining, which had begun in the days of coal stoves and steam locomotives, increased dramatically in the 1970s but declined in economic importance over the next two decades.

The conflicts which have done so much damage to the affected countries have also attracted a range of activities – both legal and illicit – including logging and extractive industries like bauxite mining, which have deforested large swathes of the region.

Yeo dismissed fears about tremors and earthquakes, saying those experienced in pilot areas were weaker than the tremors commonly cause by coal mining which had been going on directly underneath people's houses for decades.

"Our current privacy laws," Mr. Feingold said, "are inadequate to deal with new techniques of data mining, which have the ability to access extensive files containing both public and private government records on each and every American.