10 sentences with 'deposits'
Example sentences and phrases with the word deposits and other words derived from it.
• « There were few deposits of minerals or other natural resources that could be used or traded with other lands. »
• « In fact, there are deposits of iron in Greece, but its use was not yet known to the Mycenaeans. »
• « Once the Spanish discovered the vast silver deposits of South and Central America in the early 16th century, gigantic quantities of silver bullion flowed from Europe to the Ottoman and Safavid economies, most of it en route to India and points further east. »
• « Potosi had the most enormous silver deposits in the world at the time, producing thousands of tons of silver for the crown. It also represented a horrible place of slave labour for the natives of the whole area. »
• « Moreover, Britain had abundant coal deposits concentrated in the north of England. In a very fortunate coincidence for British industry, the north of England in the 18th century was the heart of the existing British textile industry, which became the key commercial force in the early period of industrialisation. »
• « The coal deposits of northern England form part of an underground band of coal reaching into Belgium, eastern France and western Germany. This stretch of land would become the industrial heartland of Europe - you can draw a line on a map of Western Europe from England stretching across the English Channel towards the Alps and trace most of the industrial centres of Europe in the first half of the 19th century. »
• « That region, immediately a close ally of Britain, had usable waterways, coal deposits and a skilled artisan workforce. »
• « In the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, the raw materials needed for production had been in Europe itself: deposits of coal and iron ore. »
• « There were deposits of Canadian nickel for steel alloys, Chilean nitrates, Australian copper and gold, and Malaysian tin, to name but a few mineral resources coveted by Europeans. »