Glace Bay is the second largest urban community in population and was the island's main coal mining centre until its last mine ceased operation in the 1980s.

Mining companies nowadays will create a temporary community to service a mine site, building all the accommodation shops and services, and then remove it as the resource is worked out.

In some cases, multiple factors may remove the economic basis for a community ; some former mining towns on U. S. Route 66 suffered both mine closures when the resources were depleted and loss of highway traffic as US 66 was diverted away from places like Oatman, Arizona onto a more direct path.

GEMCO, a BHP Billiton subsidiary, operates a large manganese mine near the community of Angurugu.

* September 6, 1869: A mine fire killed 110 people in Avondale, an unincorporated community in Plymouth Township.

In that community someone opened a mine on Tom's Creek which may have been a Mica mine.

The mine and its impact on the community are referenced in the John Prine song Paradise.

A mine also went into operation in the Dolomite community which is today mostly within the City of Hueytown.

Kearny was built by the Kennecott Mining Company in 1958 as a planned community to accommodate the populations of nearby Ray, Sonora and Barcelona, which were about to be swallowed by Kennecott's expanding open-pit copper mine.

Until 2003, when it closed, Mammoth served as a bedroom community for the nearby San Manuel mine.

The community was later named after its first mine, and thus, indirectly, after a ship.

The community is named for Harrison Yarnell, a later prospector, who discovered the Yarnell mine in 1873.

Today, the town serves mainly as a bedroom community for those wishing to live near either Edwards Air Force Base or the U. S. Borax mine in Boron.

At one time it was the dream of a group of citizens in the area to sink a coal mine, bringing industry, employment, and fuel to the community.

Whiteash began as a coal mining community around the Chicago and Marion Coal Company's mine organized by Charles A. Gent of nearby Marion, Illinois.

A short time previously, on the opening of the new mine at Alum Cave, the new town laid out there was called New Pittsburg, while the Hymera community in distinction was referred to as Old Pittsburg.

The community owns the Chauncey-Dover Community Park, formerly strip mine lands acquired by the United States Forest Service and ceded to the village.

A through-line of the Norfolk Southern Railway line passes through the community, and also provides services to the nearby Buckingham Coal Company mine.

On September 6, 1869, a mine fire killed 110 people in Avondale, an unincorporated community in Plymouth Township.

The coke works closed in the 1920s, and the mine closed in the early 1930s during the Great Depression, causing enormous hardship for the community ’ s workers.

The Mascot community was formed in the early 20th century as a company town centered on the mine.

The community was named for General Charles W. Scofield, a timber contractor and local mine official.

Responsibilities transferred since then include fisheries, mine safety, intra-territorial roads, hospitals and community health care, oil and gas and, most recently, natural resources.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

When the Willem Sophia mine was opened around 1900, the town grew even more rapidly, absorbing old villages like Chèvremont.

The city grew out of the formation of a taconite mine built by the Armco and Republic Steel starting in 1944.

Born in the village of Nitshill near Glasgow, a former coal mining village whose mine had closed before Purdon grew up.

A number of the old communities of Washington grew up around the pits ( e. g. the modern area of Usworth partly grew up around the Usworth mine and the area was known as Usworth Colliery ( and still is to some of the older generation ).

His fame in Texas grew following his failed expedition to find the lost San Saba mine, during which his small party repelled an attack by a large Indian raiding party.

With the opening of the mine in 1875, a community grew up around it.

Into the 20th century, manufacturing grew and extractive industries declined with the last coal mine closing in 1919.

Born in Toronto, the son of Peter and Andrée ( née Charpagnol ) Greene, Joe Greene grew up in Toronto before finding work in northern Ontario as a mine worker.

Originally a small industrial village to the nearby shale mine and works, it now adjoins the new town of Livingston, which was constructed alongside Pumpherston in the late 1960s and quickly grew much larger than its neighbours.

It grew rapidly in the 18th century near what was then the world's biggest copper mine at the nearby Parys Mountain.

Spoil from the mine workings was piled on the hills close to the village which grew nearby.

As Sierra Nevada gold mine output came to a trickle by the early 1850s, followed by local financial panic caused by the discovery of gold in Australia, anger towards hard-working and labor-cheap Chinese grew from economically pressured miners, who desperately sought alternative work in California's cities and ports.

Settlement in the region predates the American Revolution, the discovery of the anthracite coal for which it is named occurred in 1762, and the first mine was established in 1775 near Pittston, PA. Population rapidly grew in the period following the American Civil War, with the expansion of the mining and railroad industries.

Though the Confidence Reef bore little gold and their mine was unprofitable, the ramshackle town that grew around it became the Roodepoort municipality in 1904.

The population grew significantly due to coal mining at nearby Houghall, Old Durham and Shincliffe Colliery ( now High Shincliffe ) but declined following mine closures in the late 19th century.

Fewer than 100 people lived in the village of Murton before 1830 but, following the sinking of the mine in 1838, the population grew to 1, 387 by 1851.

The town which grew around the mine still bears names derived from Scott's book.

It grew out of the informal settlements inhabited by mine labourers on the outskirts of the original mining town of Krugersdorp.

The village of Drongan ( originally known as Taiglum ) grew up near the early coal mine and by 1900 consisted of 65 houses and a few shops.

Malécot grew up in L ' Horme, a small village near St. Étienne in the Loire département, the son of a mine engineer.

Wabana grew to become the island's largest community and the mine became one of the largest producers of iron ore in northeastern North America.

The town of Boliden quickly grew up around the mine.