9 sentences with 'mining'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mining and other words derived from it.
• « More than 90% of the slaves were sent to the Caribbean or Brazil because sugar cultivation, as well as coffee cultivation and mining in Brazil, required constant replacement as slaves perished from exhaustion or injury. »
• « The first and most important industry to benefit from coal power, apart from mining itself, was the textile industry in the north of England, which harnessed steam power to drive new machines that processed cotton into finished cloth. »
• « The Industrial Revolution began with mining and textiles, but its effects were probably most dramatic in transportation. »
• « Thatcher took a hard line with the unions, closing the coal mines in the north of England rather than give in to the demands of the coal miners' union (the British mining industry simply closed as a result - it has never recovered). »
• « Since mining began 12 years ago, the Argyle in Western Australia has yielded 400 million carats (80 tonnes) of diamonds, a third of the world's annual production, which has resulted in exports of more than $400 million a year. »
• « I look around, surprised that the mining has left almost no trace. As the excavated land is filled in again and reforested, the landscape is restored to its original appearance. »
• « In 1976, a major mining company and a prospecting company teamed up to look for diamonds, and in August 1979 they found some in samples taken from the Smoke Gully. »
• « The town of Jerome was once a thriving mining camp, then a ghost town, and today it is a bustling centre for the arts. My friend's house had been built by the miners in the town's glory days. »
• « Once the permanent lunar base is set up, mining machines will take the rocks from 3-metre deep quarries and transport them by conveyor belts to processing and separation centres, where the helium-3 will be obtained, accumulated in containers cooled with liquid nitrogen. »