Sentence examples for years of mining from inspiring English sources

And hundreds of years of mining tapped out reserves.

"Ten years of mining has turned Yueyang into a 'cancer village'.

Despite years of mining and billions in profits, Guinea remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in Africa.

South Africa's platinum belt, which holds 80 per cent of the world's known stocks of the metal, has been disfigured by 40 years of mining.

Some wells and springs are still contaminated with uranium and other toxic heavy metals, a legacy of 40 years of mining.

They say that after 467 years of mining, the Rich Mountain is like Swiss cheese, pockmarked throughout and in danger of a catastrophic collapse.

Many in the country have been exposed to years of mine awareness campaigns, but a combination of economic desperation and habit keep them coming back.

The divestment must begin during the sixth year of mining production.

Talks have been held about building a treatment plant for the water released into the river, but Balkan Mineral & Mining is reserving this only as a backup, in case the water quality deteriorates in the first year of mining.

In a year of mining disasters and climate change set backs, she challenged activists to redouble their efforts.

By 2006, after 90 years of major mining in Estonia, the total amount of mined oil shale reached one billion tonnes.