Sentence examples for pit site from inspiring English sources

Ever since the 13th century, when Edward I encouraged forest folk to extract coal and iron ore, any male, 21 or over, born in the Hundred of St Briavels who has worked in a mine for a year and a day can apply for a "gale" (pit site).

The official moniker for the fossil Darwinius masillae honours Charles Darwin's 200th anniversary year, plus the word "masilla" which was the name used by a local monastery in the 9th century for the Messel pit site where the fossil was found.

"I don't think the minister should expect any social responsibility from the man that controls Sports Direct in my constituency at the warehouse in Shirebrook on a pit site," Mr Skinner told Conservative MP Nick Boles, who was responding to an urgent question about working conditions at the company.

Plans to turn a former pit site in Doncaster into a solar farm have been approved by councillors.

The North Wales Miners Association Trust said the site has the most original remains still intact from a former pit site in the region.

There appears to be little dependence of the homogeneous pit site density or the kinetic coefficient on temperature as is illustrated by near constant y-intercept for the contribution of homogeneous nucleation of pits to diopside dissolution (Table 3).

A classification index system was developed to group deserted pit sites into different rehabilitation planning categories based on their characteristics.

Some scattered pit sites were observed at the nitrided surfaces, which may be attributed to the irregularly scattered surface texture peaks.

These results suggest the possibility of local Cu enrichment at incipient pit sites by metastable pitting, which can contribute to an ennoblement of the critical pitting potential under certain circumstances.

TRUTH: Chevron/Texaco only pretended to remediate a small portion of the waste pit sites, pushing dirt over top of them, planting some trees and leaving them there while they continued to poison local communities.

Mr. Raabe's company manages an old open-pit site in Hobson where Chevron began mining uranium in the 1970s.