The closing of the Climax mine in the 1980s was a major blow to the town's economy.

This paleontological heritage was uncovered also by significant mining works, such as underground mines and open cast mines, such works permitting the three dimensional studies of the continental deposits, a unique opportunity in Europe and in the world, until the unfortunate closing of the last major mine in 2006.

Mulroney in 1983 successfully negotiated the closing of the Schefferville mine, winning a generous settlement for the affected workers.

At the time of its closing Billy Creek was the last operating deep shaft mine in Missouri. Rombauer Coal Mine, one of the multitude operating in the Novinger area at the turn of the 20th century.

The closing of the Calumet mine during the Great Depression caused enormous hardship in an era when unemployment compensation and welfare payments were nonexistent.

It is the site of the Homestake Mine, the largest, deepest () and most productive gold mine in the Western Hemisphere before closing in January 2002.

* 1972 – With the closing of the Nishiki coal mine, all coal mines in Saga are closed.

Arao was once a large coal mining town, but it has since lost a great deal of its population, due to the closing of the mine 11 years ago.

Into the 20th century, manufacturing grew and extractive industries declined with the last coal mine closing in 1919.

After closing the sulfur mine " Siarkopol " in Machów and Jeziórko a stagnation of Tarnobrzeg followed.

In most environments, not a particularly environmentally sound practice, it has seen significant utilisation in the past, leading to such spectacular environmental damage as done by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in Tasmania to the King River, or the poisoning from the Panguna mine on Bougainville Island, which led to large-scale civil unrest on the island, and the eventual permanent closing of the mine.

The Queen River, King River and Macquarie Harbour were all polluted by mine waste from the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company until its closing in 1994.

The population boomed, reaching a high of 10, 000 by 1878, but shrank as decreasing mine production and changing market conditions led to the closing of mines.

Perry wrote that " the real basis of your calculation is your assumption that the solid earth cannot alter its shape ... even in 1000 million years, under the action of forces constantly tending to alter its shape, and yet we see the gradual closing up of passages in a mine, and we know that wrinkling and faults and other changes of shape are always going on in the earth under the action of long-continued forces.

Production at the mine began in the early 1960s, and was intended to replace production of the company's Potrerillos mine, which would be closing.

Rhyolite began to decline before the final closing of the mine.

Moreover the city recovers the stadium from the closing mine industry.

The Montour Railroad was down to just 23 miles of track between Montour Junction and Gilmore Junction when operations ceased in 1984 with the closing of the Westland Coal mine, the Montour ’ s last remaining major customer.

After the explosion, the mine re-opened, and produced 18 million tons of coal before permanently closing in 1938.

Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine in 1974, and today it is empty and bare, which is why it is called Ghost Island.

This ming phase however was short lived, with Mercator going into administration in October 2008 and closing the mine.

The Esh mine opened in 1866, closing for economic reasons between 1930 and 1942 ; it then reopened in 1942 before finally closing in June 1968.

The shafts and stopes of the Quincy Mine have slowly filled with groundwater since the closing of the mine.

The screen closing off the east entrance has a three-bay cusped arcade on the ground floor and three ogee arches on the shafts above.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

Conflicts with Rhodesia resulted in the closing of Zambia's borders with that country and severe problems with international transport and power supply.

Timing of the monsoon strengthening of the Indian Monsoon of around 5 million years ago was suggested due to an interval of closing of the Indonesian Seaway to cold thermocline waters passage from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean which is believed to have resulted in an increased sea surface temperature in the Indian Ocean, which increased gyral circulation and then caused an increased intensity of the monsoon.

Laurel Hill's economic fortunes went into a decline after World War I, a waning intensified by the Florida land speculation collapse of the 1920s which resulted in the closing of Laurel Hill's only bank.

Jungle Habitat wanted to expand and become a huge amusement park, but residents concerned with excessive traffic voted this proposal down in 1976, which resulted in an abrupt closing and exit.

The closing of the plant resulted in the loss of 600 seasonal jobs.

The downturn in the Oil Industry resulted in the corporation closing seven years later.

Brookneal has suffered an economic downturn due largely to the dissolution of the Virginia Tobacco Co-Op, which made tobacco warehouses defunct, and the late-20th century decline of the American textile industry, which resulted in the closing of the Dan River mill in Brookneal.

In 1944-1945 a labor dispute resulted in Humble closing the plant and put it up for salvage sale.

The lessening of hostilities with the Indian tribes of the Great Plains resulted in the closing of many frontier forts.

If the shutter was slow in closing, overexposure resulted where the part-fields joined and the " shutter bar " took the form of a white line.

This resulted in closing of a gardening store Viherpeukku and 200 home searches through the customer register.

A decline in the second half of the 20th century resulted in the closing of Evesham's Smithfield Market while the Central Market stopped being used for produce auctions.

However, the time lost where the sponsorships were removed resulted in the closing credit tune very seldom being played in full.

The May Laws ( Maigesetze ), or Falk Laws, of 1873 gave responsibility for the training and appointment of clergy to the state, which resulted in the closing of nearly half of the seminaries in Prussia by 1878.

In May 2008, the exchange also implemented a closing auction session to run from 4: 00 pm to 4: 10 pm, with a similar pricing mechanism as the opening auction ; however, this resulted in significant fluctuations in the closing prices of stocks and suspicions of market manipulation.

The closing of the SSC had adverse consequences for the southern part of the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex, and resulted in a mild recession, most evident in those parts of Dallas which lay south of the Trinity River.

The mountain range formed at the northern edges of the Cimmerian Plate during its collision, in the Late Triassic, with Siberia, which resulted in the closing of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean.

A renewed secession movement emerged in 1988 and resulted in a violent military campaign on the island, the closing of the Bougainville Copper Mine with serious financial consequences for the central government, the destruction or running-down of most infrastructure on the island and, ultimately, the total quarantining of the province for a decade.

A reduction in audiences in 1968 resulted in the cinema closing and the building became a bingo hall until 1970 when the entire building was closed.

A man of populistic nature, rugged, eccentric and outspoken, Jahn often came into collision with the authorities, and this conflict resulted in the closing of the Turnplatz in 1819 and Jahn's arrest.

However, her unchecked ability to read minds resulted in Anna closing her heart off and developing a hatred of humanity, which manifested as powerful demons.

This resulted in a premature closing of their Day & Age tour and cancellation of dates in Asia.

* March 5, 2004 – A Philadelphia Flyers – Ottawa Senators game resulted in five consecutive brawls in the closing minutes of the game, including fights between many players who are not known as enforcers and a fight between Flyers goalie Robert Esche and Senators goalie Patrick Lalime.