Nearly every week, there are news reports of mining blasts, deaths, rescue efforts and teams of miners trapped in horrific circumstances.
In 1850 a retired Irish soldier who had fought in the army of the East India Company during its campaigns to seize the princedom of Mysore investigated reports of mines in the region.
On May 11 , 2012 reports of mining contracts were unearthed in the press.
By making her political base the northern ex-mining town of Hénin-Beaumont, she has remodelled herself as the workers' champion (see this report of mine).
If someone understands this undisclosed and precise report of mine, that someone is.
In the nearby community of Reefton, patrons of the Blackball Working Men's Club were following the reports of the mine explosion on television.
I don't think they ever looked at a report card of mine.
Dispatches they sent to acquaintances sounded hellish and exciting, in that young-man-meets-failed-state sort of way, with reports of land mines, military checkpoints, handguns, machine guns, coup attempts, cratered streets, opiates and amputee teen prostitutes.
The first reports of new mine-laying on the Lebanon border by Syrian forces emerged in November 2011.
In recent days, the state media have provided a grim sampling of China's environmental woes, including a pipeline explosion that dumped thousands of gallons of oil into the Yellow Sea, reports of a copper mine whose toxic effluent killed tons of fish in Fujian Province, and revelations that dozens of children were poisoned by lead from illegal gold production in Yunnan Province.
