Mining, construction works ( roads, railways, canals, dams, and factories ), logging, and other functions of the labor camps were part of the Soviet planned economy, and the NKVD had its own production plans.

Mining took place on the Alberni Inlet and, as with many fish camps and outports, depended on Port Alberni as a base.

Mining camps soon thrived in the vicinity, which became bustling centers of fabulous wealth.

He persuaded them, along with a group of friends, to purchase a controlling interest in the mines, which later became known as the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company based in Calumet, Michigan.

Katanga Mining Limited, a London-based company, owns the Luilu Metallurgical Plant, which has a capacity of 175, 000 tonnes of copper and 8, 000 tonnes of cobalt per year, making it the largest cobalt refinery in the world.

Mining was particularly important, and the new policies coincided with the growing of banana exporting, which began in the Bay Islands in the 1870s and was pursued on the mainland by small and middling farmers in the 1880s.

Mining activities pollute the Lake Yojoa, which is the country's largest source of fresh water, as well as some rivers and streams with heavy metals.

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

Founded the De Beers Mining Company and owned the British South Africa Company, which established Rhodesia for itself.

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.

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an orebody, lode, vein, ( coal ) seam or reef, which forms the mineralized horizon and package of economic interest to the miner.

To gain access to the mineralised package within the lease area ( aka Mining Rights Lease ) it is often necessary to mine through ( to create access, shafts, addits, ramps ) or remove to the side waste material which is not of immediate interest to the miner.

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

This was followed up by the Global Mining Initiative which was initiated by nine of the largest metals and mining companies, and led to the formation of the International Council on Mining and Metals to " act as a catalyst " for social and environmental performance improvement in the mining and metals industry internationally.

These and other movements such as the Philippines 1995 Mining Act led the World Bank to publish a third report ( Assistance for Minerals Sector Development and Reform in Member Countries ) which endorsed mandatory environment impact assessments and attention to the locals.

Mining contributed 12. 4 % to GDP in 2007, of which diamond mining activities represented 5 %.

On October 9, 1867, the College's trustees reluctantly agreed to merge with the state college to their mutual advantage, but under one condition — that there not be simply a " Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College ", but " a complete university ", within which the College of California would become the College of Letters ( now the College of Letters and Science ).

It exists, however, in many variations on this theme, such as the Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining ( CRISP-DM ) which defines six phases:

For exchanging the extracted models – in particular for use in predictive analytics – the key standard is the Predictive Model Markup Language ( PMML ), which is an XML-based language developed by the Data Mining Group ( DMG ) and supported as exchange format by many data mining applications.

Mining families were replaced by what locals referred to as " hippies ", young people with a 1960s worldview which frequently clashed with the values of Telluride's old-timers.

In 1853, the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Mining Company was chartered, which eventually constructed the canals which would be used to generate electricity.

With the exception of the Mining Law of 1872 and the Desert Land Act of 1877 ( which was amended ), all have since been repealed or superseded by other statutes.

On the other hand, homesteading schemes were generally pointless for land containing " locatable minerals ," such as gold and silver, which could be controlled through mining claims under the Mining Act of 1872, for which the federal government did not charge royalties.

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.

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.

The advisory opinion was issued in response to a formal request made by the International Seabed Authority following two prior applications the Authority's Legal and Technical Commission had received from the Republics of Nauru and Tonga regarding proposed activities ( a plan of work to explore for polymetallic nodules ) to be undertaken in the Area by two State-sponsored contractors ( Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. ( sponsored by the Republic of Nauru ) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. ( sponsored by the Kingdom of Tonga ).

This name lasted through World War I until 1925, but by this time the school had begun offering a wider variety of degrees and once again decided to change its name to the Michigan College of Mining and Technology.

Chafetz was arrested when he returned to Cairo in February 1984 for " smuggling an airplane into Egypt ," even though he had the written permission of the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority to bring the aircraft into the country.

It was operated by the Milton Mining Company from a building on this site that had been erected about 1853.

In order to feed the giant sawmill it had established in Carter County, which required logs from 70 acres of land each day to keep it running, the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company laid down miles of narrow gage railroads that radiated outward beyond Carter County and into neighboring Reynolds, Wayne, Butler, Ripley and Shannon counties.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

" Cole had been president of the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of US Steel, which financed the building of the town.

In 1889 William Crommer and Bob Evans began operating a sawmill at Ellsinore, buying up most of the timber in the area that had not already been bought up by the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company.

Mining in Mine Hill dates back to the early 18th century, and the township had some of the richest sources of iron ore in the country.

In August 1879, The Engineering and Mining Journal wrote, " the Gaylord Coal Co. is building a new breaker in place of the one burned down last summer, and which is to prepare the coal from the old slope workings, with its tunnel to the seven foot seam, as well as the coal from its new shaft which was sunk by the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., when it had it, to the Bennett seam.

Mining resumed in 1866, and continued until 1878, when the mines had exhausted the shallow high-grade copper ores.

Foddershock has self-produced and released 8 albums and have had songs in movies and on the compilation cd " Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields " which was nominated for a Grammy in 2007.

Montreal was named for the Montreal Mining Company, which had several copper and iron ore mines in the area during the late 1800s.

The steam locomotives on the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company had separate cylinders driving the pinion wheel as do the ' X ' Class locomotives on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway.