Mining accidents below ground were common and in 1896 fifty-seven men and boys were killed in a gas explosion at the Tylorstown Colliery.

Mining accidents can have a variety of causes, including leaks of poisonous gases such as hydrogen sulfide or explosive natural gases, especially firedamp or methane, dust explosions, collapsing of mine stopes, mining-induced seismicity, flooding, or general mechanical errors from improperly used or malfunctioning mining equipment ( such as safety lamps or electrical equipment ).

Middelbult colliery was and is still one of the underground collieries of Sasol Mining situated near the town of Secunda in the Mpumalanga province List of accidents and disasters by death toll.

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Sterling Mining has plans to continue exploration and development of the mine, exercising an option the company purchased in 2003.

In 2010, the government of Western Australia issued environmental approval for the joint owners, Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining, to expand the mine site and continue operating until 2021.

The Cripple Creek Mining District was under occupation by the Colorado National Guard, the Citizens ' Alliance was active in the district, and historians continue to debate who was responsible for each incident of violence.

Songs from the tradition continue to be recorded, as in the Grammy nominated Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields ( 2007 ), a two CD compilation and booklet of mining songs.

The Office of Surface Mining approved Peabody's permit request to continue operations at the mine on 22 December 2008.

Mining in Peru: Peru ranks fifth worldwide in gold production ( first in Latin America ), second in copper, and is among the top 5 producers of lead and zinc.

A decade later, Newmont Mining Corporation and Newmont Gold Company combined assets to form a unified worldwide gold company.

Mining in Europe has a very long history, examples including the silver mines of Laurium, which helped support the Greek city state of Athens.

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As the 19th century progressed and the nation's land base expanded further west, Congress encouraged the settlement of the land by enacting a wide variety of laws, including the Homestead Act and the Mining Law of 1872.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data from October 2008, the largest sectors of non-agricultural employment were: Government, 24. 3 %; Trade, Transportation, and Utilities, 17. 3 % ( including 11. 0 % in retail trade ); Professional and Business Services, 11. 9 %; Manufacturing, 10. 9 %; Education and Health Services, 10. 0 % ( including 8. 5 % in Health Care & Social Assistance ); Leisure and Hospitality, 9. 2 %; Financial Activities, 6. 0 %, Natural Resources, Mining and Construction, 5. 1 %; Information, 1. 4 %; and Other services 4. 0 %.

Mining and its associated activities ( including relative lawlessness ) rapidly boomed in that area.

Mining was an important industry here ; there were several coal mines in the area, including the Kelly mines numbers 1 through 4, and mines operated by the Bunsen, Peabody, and Dering coal companies.

The business community has worked to bring in more visitors through annual festivals including the Manly Man Festival in June, the Pioneer Days Picnic, and a Coal Mining Festival associated with Coal Mining History Week each August.

In March 1948 classes commenced operation with its first cohort of 46 students pursuing programs including Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering and Electronic Engineering.

Of his 227 books, only a handful survive, including On Plants and On Stones, but On Mining is lost.

He was noted for resolution of several major labor disputes, including a long-running strike at Miike Mine of Mitsui Mining Company ( the resolution of this strike was in fact the first act of the Ikeda cabinet.

In South Africa " the Department of Public Enterprises is the shareholder representative of the South African Government with oversight responsibility for state-owned enterprises in key sectors, including: Defence, Energy, Forestry, ICT, Mining and Transport ".

The economy of Flin Flon is primarily based on copper and zinc mining, chiefly Hudbay Minerals Co. Ltd / Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting's 777 Mine ( including Callinan lenses ) and Trout Lake Mine ( slated for shutdown in 2012 ).

By 1964, Zapata Off-Shore had a number of subsidiaries, including: Seacat-Zapata Offshore Company ( Persian Gulf ), Zapata de Mexico, Zapata International Corporation, Zapata Mining Corporation, Zavala Oil Company, Zapata Overseas Corporation, and a 41 % share of Amata Gas Corporation.

In 1862, the Hudson's Bay Company sold their coalfields, including Newcastle Island, to the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company right before a series of strikes took place over the poor working conditions of the Nanaimo and Newcastle Island mines.

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Since retirement Sittler has also been serving as a director to a number of mineral exploration companies, including Royal Nickel and Wallbridge Mining.

He has served the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in many roles including as Chair of the Alloy Design Committee ( 1991-92 ), Chair of the Metal Science Committee ( 1992-93 ), member of Materials Strategy Commission ( 1997-99 ) and Light Metals Division ( 2000-2002 );

Previously, during his terms as prime minister, he worked to uncover and eliminate several corruption scandals including his handling of the Erdenet Mining Corporation ’ s tax scandal.

Mining included gypsum ( several locations including Windsor and Cheverie ), iron ( Londonderry ), barite ( near Walton and the Eureka Mine at Five Islands ), manganese ( several locations including Cheverie and Tennycape ), and copper ( the Colonial Copper Company at Cap D ' Or ).

Several emblematic buildings have remained as testimony to such events, including the Mining building, popularly known as the Velázquez Palace ( 1884 ) by architect Ricardo Velázquez Bosco, and the Palacio de Cristal (" Crystal Palace "), a glass pavilion inspired by The Crystal Palace in London, undoubtedly the gardens ' most extraordinary building.

Mining and Drilling can require large amounts of land development, directly causing deforestation.

In 1914, the United States House Committee on Mines and Mining reported that " Colorado has good mining laws and such that ought to afford protection to the miners as to safety in the mine if they were enforced, yet in this State the percentage of fatalities is larger than any other, showing there is undoubtedly something wrong in reference to the management of its coal mines.

* Mining ( MSHA Report 1988 ): 38 confined space incidents from 1980 to 1986 with 44 fatalities.

Mining fatalities dropped sharply under the Mine Act from 272 in 1977 to 22 year to date ( July 17, 2007 ).

The association said it would post 24 hour guards at Gladden's home and at those of James Mining and Eugene Shiflett.

Mining of coal previously occurred at Qullissat but has been suspended.

His lectures at Columbia and Stanford universities were published in 1909 as Principles of Mining, which became a standard textbook.

The major sources of toxic waste in the water supply are the mercury mining combine at Haidarkan ; the antimony mine at Kadamzai ; the Kadzyi Sai uranium mine, which ceased extraction in 1967 but which continues to leach toxic materials into nearby Ysyk Köl ; the Kara-Balta Uranium Recovery Plant ; the Min Kush deposit of mine tailings ; and the Kyrgyz Mining and Metallurgy Plant at Orlovka.

Turquoise dated at 700 A. D. was mined in pre-Columbian America ; in the Cerillos Mining District in New Mexico, estimates are that " about 15, 000 tons of rock had been removed from Mt Chalchihuitl using stone tools before 1700.

Cart for carrying ore from a mine on display at the Historic Archive and Museum of Mining in Pachuca, Mexico.

Instead, Joachim Åkerman, the head of the School of Mining in Falun and a former professor of chemistry at KTH, took over.

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Mining the vein of the small-scale historical genre piece, in 1815 he painted Aretino and the Envoy of Charles V as well as Aretino and Tintoretto, an anecdotal painting whose subject, a painter brandishing a pistol at his critic, may have been especially satisfying to the embattled Ingres.

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* Idaho Springs Photos and Information at Western Mining History

Mining corporation Rio Tinto Group started production at its Fort Dauphin mine in January 2009, following several years of infrastructure preparation.

On 28 December 2005, the Emperor Gold Mining Company Limited, Fiji's largest private employer, announced that it would be laying off 374 workers at Vatukoula the following day.

Mining companies, meanwhile, had extracted vast quantities of silver from western mines ; the resulting oversupply drove down the price of their product, often to below the point at which the silver could be profitably extracted.

In 1998 Ross Mining of Australia began producing gold at Gold Ridge on Guadalcanal.

The production of X-rays by a bolt of lightning was theoretically predicted as early as 1925 but no evidence was found until 2001 / 2002, when researchers at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology detected X-ray emissions from an induced lightning strike along a wire trailed behind a rocket shot into a storm cloud.

Many aspects of the area's mining history are depicted in exhibits at two local museums: the Mariposa History Museum, located in the town of Mariposa ; and the California Mining and Mineral Museum, located at the Mariposa Fairgrounds ( 2 miles east of Mariposa on Highway 49 ).

Mining at Privas saw the exploitation of local iron ore, which was quickly depleted.

Mining operations developed by Dolch at Dolchburg and by the Olmos Coal, Coke, and Oil Company at Olmos were the largest coal producers in Texas around the turn of the 19th to 20th century.