Other claimants included the United States, whose American Guano Mining Company claimed it under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 ; Mexico also claimed Clipperton due to activities undertaken there as early as 1848 – 1849.

Mining accidents continue worldwide, including accidents causing dozens of fatalities at a time, such as the 2007 Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster in Russia, the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in the United States, and the 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion in China.

* December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia, United States.

* 2007-Freeman United Coal Mining Co. sold to Springfield Coal Co. for an undisclosed amount

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In April 2009 the United Nations named the Korea Mining and Development Trading Corporation ( aka KOMID ) as North Korea's primary arms dealer and main exporter of equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons.

Mining, along with the development of logging and United States Forest Service activities contribute to the area's interesting history.

-" Midvale, with its American Smelting and Refining Company ( ASARCO ) the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company ( USSRM ), attracted numerous Slavs.

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.

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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.

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See, e. g., Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Association, 452 U. S. 264, 276 – 280 ( 1981 ); Perez v. United States, 402 U. S. 146, 155 – 156 ( 1971 ); Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U. S. 241, 252 – 253 ( 1964 ).

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In the most renowned legal fight of farmers against miners, the farmers sued the hydraulic mining operations and the landmark case of Edwards Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company made its way to the United States District Court in San Francisco where Judge Lorenzo Sawyer decided in favor of the farmers in 1884, declaring that hydraulic mining was “ a public and private nuisance ” and enjoining its operation in areas tributary to navigable streams and rivers.

The United States Bureau of Reclamation ( USBR ), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service ( not to be confused with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ), is a federal agency under the U. S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.

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From 1906 to 1947 the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company was the primary producer here, with output reaching its peak in the 1930s.

In the Senate, Wilson served as chairman of the Committee of Mines and Mining ( in the Forty-eighth Congress ) Committee on Expenditures of Public Money ( in the Forty-eighth Congress ), Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States ( in the Forty-ninth through Fifty-second Congresses ), and the Committee on Education and Labor ( in the Fifty-second Congress ).

Mining was a siege method used in ancient China from at least the Warring States ( 481 – 221 BC ) period forward.

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In 1905 officials of the Agrico subsidiary Peace River Mining Company, along with engineers from the United States Army Corps of Engineers and 60 laborers, landed on Gasparilla Island and surveying and construction of the railroad began.

Though at first the Court had accepted some of the New Deal legislation over the objections of the four conservative justices, in the 1935 term, the Four Horsemen, together with Roberts and Hughes, voided the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 ( United States v. Butler, 297 U. S. 1 ( 1936 )), along with the Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act, the Railroad Act, and the Coal Mining Act.

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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.

Hoover was a director of Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation ( CEMC ) when it became a supplier of coolie labor for South African mines.

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

Quincy Adams Shaw and his brother-in-law Henry Higginson became major investors in the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, and Shaw was the first president of the company and retained that position until 1871, when Agassiz's son Alexander Agassiz took over.

Desloge Missouri and the regional Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District became one of the principal lead mining centers in the US.

Mining and smelting iron became a more successful activity until the deposits diminished.

The railroad, combined with a rapidly expanding mining industry ( the town is the namesake of the famous Spruce Pine Mining District ) made Spruce Pine the largest town in the Toe River Valley, as it became the hub of commerce and culture for the area.

Incorporated as a city in 1892, Eureka became the financial center for the Tintic Mining District, a wealthy gold and silver mining area in Utah and Juab counties.

Abraham Gottlob Werner was the inspector of mines and professor of mining and mineralogy at the Mining Academy in Freiberg ( Saxony ) which became dominant in late eighteenth-century geology.

Caphouse Colliery, just to the south of Thornhill, closed after the miners strike of 1985 and became the National Coal Mining Museum.

In October 1886, the syndicate became the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company, with D ' Arcy a director and the largest shareholder.

Mining and iron production became important industries inte the 5th century and the iron works of Hofors and Sandviken still employ about 6 500 people, producing specialized steel and other special metals.

In 1821 Casimir Perier became chairman of the board of directors of the Anzin Mining Company ; and in that same year he succeeded his brother Scipion as a director of the Bank of France.

Eventually the Tanana Mining District became a huge gold producer, and the metal attracted Americans and Europeans alike.

The Satemo Mining Company of Tangier, Nova Scotia ( named by Clark after a Japanese word which, according to his translation, meant " all right ") became a subsidiary of Clark & Bothwell in the summer of 1881.

After being succeeded by William Haley, he became Chairman of the Mining Association.

Dawkins became involved with the Manchester Geological and Mining Society and was its President on three occasions: 1874 – 75, 1876 – 77 and 1886 – 87.

In later years he became a businessman and was chairman of the Equitable Loan Bank, director of the Arigna Iron and Coal Company, the Palladium Insurance Company and the Peruvian Mining Company.

McDonald pegged several claims in the name of the Rosebery Prospecting Association, which later became the Rosebery Gold Mining Company.

In 1896, the Rosebery Gold Mining Company was reconstructed as the Tasmanian Copper Company, and the South Rosebery Mining Company became the Primrose Mining Company.

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