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 suspended since 2009, when U. S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar temporarily withdrew from the permitting process, pending assessment of the environmental impact of mining.

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.

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 ).

* Michigan Technological University ( originally Michigan Mining School ) opens its doors for the first time in what is now the Houghton County Fire Hall.

At the beginning of the century, there was a phrase " database mining "™, trademarked by HNC, a San Diego-based company ( now merged into FICO ), to pitch their Data Mining Workstation ; researchers consequently turned to " data mining ".

The historical provinces now included in Nord-Pas-de-Calais are Artois, Boulonnais, Calaisis, Cambraisis, French Flanders, French Hainaut and portions of northern Picardy, and the regional nickname Bassin Minier or Meiners-Bassen ( Miners ' or Mining Basin in the region's two languages ) derived from historically large mining deposits.

Development of magnetic tape recorders in the late 1940s and early 1950s is associated with Ampex ; the equally important development of magnetic tape media itself was led by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ( now known as 3M ).

* Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark, now the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum.

The New Mexico School of Mines ( now the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ) was founded in Socorro in 1889.

Several trucking companies hauled ore from mines in the Four-Corners Mining District west of Green River, the San Rafael Swell, the Henry Mountains, and the area that is now Lake Powell.

This vigorous industry created a need for educated mining professionals and directly led in 1885 to the founding of the Michigan Mining School ( now Michigan Technological University ) in Houghton.

In 1949 the University of Miskolc was founded ( as a successor of the Academy of Mining, formerly in Selmecbánya, which is now Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia ).

The M is a monogram for the former Wisconsin Mining School ( now the University of Wisconsin – Platteville ).

The Mining Exchange building is now used as a housing advice centre ( it was built in 1880 as accommodation for share brokers ).

Smaller mining companies have been running smaller matches to channel aggression, but now the Liandri Mining Corporation established a professional league, which quickly proves to be an extremely lucrative way of public entertainment.

# Summitville Consolidated Mining Corp., Inc. ( SCMCI ), now bankrupt, EPA Site COD983778432, in Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado ;

The Detention Centre, which is situated on the beach front and was formerly single-men's quarters for Mount Newman Mining ( now BHP Billiton ).

In 1911 the National Bank formed joint venture with the New Zealand Mining Trust and the bank purchased a section with a frontage by deep in Arthur Street ( now Willoughby Street ) for 200 pounds.

In Krige's 1951 paper published in the Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa he covered the statistical explanation of the conditional biases in ore block valuations and stimulated the use by several gold mines of regression corrections for routine ore reserve valuations, a technique which, in effect, was the first use on an elementary basis of what is now known as kriging.

The New Amphidrome was renamed the James R. " Dee " Ice Stadium in 1943 when the Michigan College of Mining and Technology ( now Michigan Technological University ) purchased it for their hockey team.

In 1853, he was one of the members of the celebrated Randolph Hill Mining Company in the town of Rough and Ready ( now a town west of Grass Valley in Nevada County ).

In 1873, while still director of Freiberg Mining Academy, Zeuner also took on the post of director at the Royal Saxon Polytechnicum in Dresden ( now Technische Universität Dresden ).

In 1873, the multinational Rio Tinto Company was formed to operate the mines ; by the end of the 20th century it had become one of the world's largest mining companies, although it no longer controls the Rio Tinto mines ; these are now owned by EMED Mining plc.

Newmont sold the mine in late 2007 ; it is now owned by Conquest Mining.

Private Limited ( now Sesa Resources Limited ) along with its fully owned subsidiary Dempo Mining Corporation ( now Sesa Mining Corporation Limited ) and 50 % equity in Goa Maritime Private Limited.