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 of coal previously occurred at Qullissat but has been suspended.

Mining of stone and metal has been done since pre-historic times.

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

Mining has been a key industry in this area with Madison County recorded as having the oldest lead mine west of the Mississippi River.

Mining has an obvious impact on the landscape, but only one operational uranium mine ( Ranger ) remains.

In 2007, in what has been noted as the world's biggest-ever mining takeover, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold bought Phelps Dodge Mining and has begun some preliminary work in the area.

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

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.

Mining has continued until recently through the Pacific Coast Coal Company, formerly of San Francisco.

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.

Mining, landmining or undermining is a siege method which has been used since antiquity against a walled city, fortress, castle or other strongly held and fortified military position.

The volcano has been observed to be continuously active since 1972 and is the site of the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory run by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

Cliffs Natural Resources owns and operates Northshore Mining, which has mining operations in Babbitt and crushing, concentrating ( grinding ) and pelletizing operations in Silver Bay, along with United Taconite which has mining operations in Eveleth and crushing, concentrating and pelletizing operations in Forbes.

Gumboot Dance performed by Mining | mine workers in South AfricaIn South Africa, the sound of people dancing in gumboots has been incorporated into a form of semi-traditional popular music, sometimes known as " gumboot music " or " gumboot zydeco " in Africa, or Welly boot dance by people from Britain.

Mining of stone and metal has been done since pre-historic times.

Mining has been focused on iron ore for centuries but other ores has been mined as well.

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.

Its historic town centre has been placed under heritage conservation and is a chosen site for the proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Ore Mountain Mining Region.

Mining has not been profitable and Store Norske relies on state subsidies to retain production.

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.

There have been some efforts to define standards for the data mining process, for example the 1999 European Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining ( CRISP-DM 1. 0 ) and the 2004 Java Data Mining standard ( JDM 1. 0 ).

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.

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.

However, efforts to privatise the two state-owned bauxite mining companies, Berbice Mining Company and Linden Mining Company have so far been unsuccessful.

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

( In 1900, the value of gold was fixed at $ 20. 67 per ounce, so that $ 16 million in gold would have been roughly 800, 000 ounces -- worth today $ 1, 600 an ounce about $ 1. 28 Billion ) Mining remained the dominant sector of the area ’ s economy, with increasing lode-ore production annually, until October 1942 when the U. S. War Labor Board made gold mining illegal by Executive Order, Public Law L-208.

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 was suspended for a short period in 1987.

Mining operations were suspended in May 2009 due to a decline in diamond demand caused by the late-2000s financial crisis.

Mining operations were suspended in May 2009 due to a decline in diamond demand caused by the late-2000s financial crisis.

The area, located within the Mining district of Central Sweden ( Bergslagen ) was a mining district since the 14th century, mostly for iron, but copper was also mined for.

Mining has been central to Librazhd District since Roman times, in particular the mining of nickel, chromium, platinum, copper, bauxite and gold.

Mining has taken place at Avoca since at least the Bronze Age ( c. 2, 500-600 BCE ).

Mining production has declined since the closure of the mine at Mount Todd ( 50 kilometres to the north ) in 2000.

Mining automation teams at QCAT, a CSIRO division ; have been developing the automation technology since 1994.

Coal Mining has been carried on in the surround area since Roman times.

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* Golden Grove Mine: Owned by Normandy Mining Limited since 1991, Golden Grove was acquired by Newmont Australia Ltd in February 2002 when Newmont took over Normandy.

The Parys Mining company, led by Michael Hughes, arranged to lease land from John Mackay on land close to the newly constructed Sankey Canal at Ravenhead ( where Ravenhead Colliery had since been established ).

Koongarra and Jabiluka were retained by the companies that found them: Noranda Australia and Pancontinental Mining respectively, although since sold to other parties.

Mining has been common since 1901 and the quartz sand and Kaolin is also used for the production of porcelain and paper.

The mine has since been opened up again by a group of local entrepreneurs (" Ongopolo Mining ").

There is also a recent dispute ( July 2009 ) currently in the courts between Orange City Council and Newcrest Mining to the current rights to the towns treated Effluent water that the mine has received for free since beginning its operations in the late 1990s.

Baja Mining, a Canadian firm, has been intermittently exploring and attempting to reopen the Boleo Mine since 2004.

The New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company closed in 1972 and the town has since become a ghost town.

Mont Wright is a mountain in Fermont, Quebec, a site of major iron ore mining operations since the 1970s by Québec Cartier Mining Company.

On 1 February 2001 it became incorporated into the National Museum Wales, and was initially known as the National Mining Museum of Wales, it has since been renamed to become Big Pit: National Coal Museum.

In the United States, mining companies have not been allowed to leave behind abandoned piles since the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act was passed in 1977.

The Grade II building which has housed the RIC since 1919 was built in 1845 as the Truro Savings Bank, and subsequently became Henderson ’ s Mining School.