It is significant as the centre of Victoria's Energy industry – specifically the mining and burning of Lignite ( brown coal ) to produce electricity.

* Neyveli Lignite Corporation, a lignite mining and power generating company in India

Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited ( NLC ) is a government-owned lignite mining and power generating company in India.

Lignite is a city in Burke County, North Dakota in the United States.

Columbus, North Dakota newspaper reports claimed that Risberg played part of the 1927 season with a traveling team called Dellage's Cubans based in Lignite, North Dakota.

* Lignite, North Dakota $ 15, 346

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Lignite is brownish-black in color and has a carbon content of around 25-35 %, a high inherent moisture content sometimes as high as 66 %, and an ash content ranging from 6 % to 19 % compared with 6 % to 12 % for bituminous coal.

Lignite has a high content of volatile matter which makes it easier to convert into gas and liquid petroleum products than higher ranking coals.

Lignite was founded in 1907 and was named for the quantities of lignite, a low-grade coal, present in the area.

Lignite is located at ( 48. 876908 ,-102. 562603 ).

Lignite is in the center of farming country.

Sirius Minerals drilled an exploratory potash well near Lignite in November, 2010.

In the southern part of the district are big open pit Lignite ( brown coal ) mines.

Lignite processing began in the eastern half of the city in 1847.

* The Neyveli Lignite Corporation-a public sector company in Neyveli.

Lignite mine of Ptolemaida.

Some other minerals found in the district are Antimony, Arsenic, Lignite or Brown Marble, Mica and silver.

Similar facilities and amenities exist at the other Sanghi township at Sanghipuram, Gujarat where the group operates a large Lignite based cement plant under Sanghi Industries Ltd.

* Lignite, a variety of coal, " brown coal.

The Center was founded in 1951 as the Robertson Lignite Research Laboratory, a federal facility under the U. S. Bureau of Mines.

Lignite is mined in the north, around Ptolemaida.

Western paramilitaries and mercenaries, often hired by mining companies to protect their interests, also began to pour into the country.

" He served as a geologist and mining engineer while searching the Western Australian goldfields for investments.

Western cities such as Denver and Sacramento originated as mining towns.

The primary mining of tantalum is in Australia, where the largest producer, Global Advanced Metals, formerly known as Talison Minerals, operates two mines in Western Australia, Greenbushes in the Southwest and Wodgina in the Pilbara region.

The vast mineral riches of the land were unknown until the discovery of copper in the Keweenaw Peninsula and iron in the Western Upper Peninsula ; this discovery led to a mining boom that lasted long into the 20th century.

Today Western Australia's economy mainly relies on mining, agriculture, and tourism, with the state supplying 46 % of Australia's exports.

The union local in the Leadville mining district was the Cloud City Miners ' Union ( CCMU ), Local 33 of the Western Federation of Miners.

The major Northumbrian dialects are Geordie ( Tyneside ), Northern ( north of the River Coquet ), Western ( from Allendale through Hexham up to Kielder ), Southern or Pitmatic ( the mining towns such as Ashington and much of Durham ), Mackem ( Wearside ), Smoggie ( Teesside ) and Tyke ( Yorkshire ).

All of these companies are involved in the mining of iron ore, predominantly from the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

He spent most of his early childhood in the mining town of Tom Price in north Western Australia.

Peabody Western Coal Company is one of the largest coal operations on Hopi land, with long-time permits for continued mining.

From 1871 to 1873 Capron bent his efforts to expounding Western agriculture and mining with mixed results.

The Tombstone Western Film Festival and Symposium founded in 2001 is held in July in Tombstone, Arizona, a historic western mining town ( and later ghost town ) in the USA celebrated in western films as the site of the legendary Gunfight at the O. K.

The Transwa Prospector DEMU capable of up to 200 km / h provides a passenger service between Perth, Western Australia and the mining town of Kalgoorlie

In the 1960s, larger sections of swamps and bogs in Western Russia were drained for agricultural use and to generate peat fields for mining.

Newberry developed as a mining town after phosphate was discovered in the western part of Alachua County in 1889 ; and, the town was located along the route of the Savannah, Florida, and Western Railway, that in 1893 was extended southward from High Springs.

Bibbulmun track where it crosses the upper reaches of the Canning River ( Western Australia ) | Canning River The route has been changed twice, partly due to it passing through a significant section of forest that was at risk to change from either forestry, bauxite mining or dieback.

Both railroads were planned and built by the team of mining manager and civil engineer William Nelson Page and industrialist and financier Henry Huttleston Rogers, and added a third Hampton Roads coal exporting railhead to the existing Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( with coal piers at Newport News ) and the Norfolk and Western Railway's similar facilities at Norfolk's Lambert's Point.

Home On the Range became Jeffrey City when those who came to mine uranium sought to honor Dr. C. W. Jeffrey, a wealthy doctor from Rawlins, Wyoming, who initially financed the costs for prospector and businessman Bob Adams to start the Western Nuclear Corporation mining firm and open a Uranium mine near the area in 1957, during the cold war and the height of uranium demand.

Thousands of people looking for high-paying mining jobs streamed into Jeffrey City, and Western Nuclear designed and financed a company town for the workers and their families.

After graduation he worked as a mining engineer in Canada, Mexico, and the Western United States before arriving in Alaska in 1907 as part of an engineering team tasked with making evaluations for a group of investors.

While the majority of news reports echoed these official declarations, there were others which opined that Western critics should " suspend judgment for a time ," and despite its generally critical stance on South Africa's policies, Time magazine wrote that Bophuthatswana had " considerable economic potential " with an expected $ 30 million a year coming from mining revenues.

A recent development for the company has seen the purchase of shares by Western Australian mining company Hancock Prospecting which presently controls just below 15 % of the shares of The Age parent company Fairfax Media.

Western mining interests and others who wanted silver in circulation years later labeled this measure the " Crime of ' 73 ".