Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 as the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and was created to train mining engineers to operate the local copper mines.

The last nearby mines closed in the late 1960s, but a school founded in 1885 by the Michigan State Legislature to teach metallurgy and mining engineering, the Michigan College of Mines, continues today under the name of Michigan Technological University and is the primary employer in the city.

École Centrale de Lille was founded as École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille in 1854, the same year when Louis Pasteur became the dean of Faculté des sciences de Lille and pioneered applied research with industry cooperations, with support of scientists such as Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann.

The island was colonized at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines ; they founded a temple to the god Melqart, whom the Greeks identified as " Tyrian Heracles ", and whose cult was merged with Heracles in the course of the island's Hellenization.

Incorporated in 1902, by 1910 its population swelled to 9, 019 and it sported a constellation of suburbs, including Warren, Lowell, and San Jose, some of which had been founded on their own ( ultimately less successful ) mines.

William K Reed & Thomas McCarty founded the Union Copper Mine ( and later the Keystone & Empire mines ).

Legend has it that his donkey wandered off during the morning of September 4, 1885 ; Kellogg found the animal at a large outcropping of galena, which became the site of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mines ; those mines led to the founding of Kellogg, a city where a local sign reads " This is the town founded by a jackass and inhabited by his descendants.

A relic of the city's coal mining days was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, founded in 1885, and one of the oldest continuously running coal companies in the United States ( even though its headquarters moved several years ago to Denver, Colorado after the Kansas mines closed ).

Alta was founded about 1865 to house miners from the Emma mine, the Flagstaff mine, and other silver mines in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

The town was founded in 1900, with most of its residents then employed by the Mammoth and Morning lead-zinc mines.

Potosí was added in reference to the fabulously rich mines of Potosí, Bolivia, discovered some forty years before the city was founded, as the exploitation of silver and gold mines in Cerro de San Pedro near San Luis was the main reason for the founding of the city in 1592.

It was one of the colonies that the Thassians founded in the coastline, in order to take advantage of the rich gold and silver mines of the territory, especially the ones that were located to the nearby Pangaion mountain ( which were eventually exploited by Phillip the Second of Macedonia ).

Michigan Tech was founded in response to the needs of the copper mines.

During the 19th century, a number of higher education Grandes écoles were established so as to support industry and commerce, including École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne in 1816, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris ( today ESCP Europe, founded in 1819 ), École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures ( École centrale de Paris ) in 1829, École des arts industriels et des mines ( École centrale de Lille ) in 1854 and École centrale lyonnaise pour l ' Industrie et le Commerce ( École centrale de Lyon ) in 1857.

** the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris ( MINES ParisTech ) – founded in 1783 ;

One of his predecessors, Anthony Gell, founded the local grammar school, and one of his successors, Phillip Gell, opened the curiously named Via Gellia ( possibly named in allusion to the Roman Via Appia ), a road from the family's lead mines around Wirksworth to the smelter in Cromford.

In the past they ruled the world in an empire, founded off the weapons forged from materials of the Cathurigian mines.

The city was founded in 1869 by a Welsh businessman, John Hughes, who constructed a steel plant and several coal mines in the region ; the town was thus named Yuzovka ( Юзовка ) in recognition of his role in its founding (" Yuz " being a Russian or Ukrainian approximation of Hughes ).

Donetsk was founded in 1869 when the Welsh businessman John Hughes built a steel plant and several coal mines in the southern part of the Russian Empire at Aleksandrovka ().

After discovering gold in the Santana's mines, they founded the new village called " Matosinho do Mandu ", Pouso Alegre's first name.

The company was founded as the Freeport Sulphur Company in 1912, and the company founded Freeport, Texas that same year, near its new sulphur mines, then the largest in the world.

Crichton calls Congo a Lost World novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, featuring the mines of that work's title.

A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

U.S. coal is cheap, despite high wages, because of widespread mechanization of mines, wide coal seams, attactive rates on ocean freight.

Within a few years of nationalisation, a number of progressive measures had been carried out which did much to improve conditions in the mines, including better pay, a five-day workweek, a national safety scheme ( with proper standards at all the collieries ), a ban on boys under the age of 16 going underground, the introduction of training for newcomers before going down to the coalface, and the making of pithead baths into a standard facility.

Since the 1990s the region has experienced an exceptionally tumultuous period in its regional economy with the collapse of large portions of the ground fishery throughout Atlantic Canada, the closing of coal mines and a steel mill on Cape Breton Island, and the closure of military bases in all three provinces.

Hundreds of thousands Tainos living on the island were enslaved to work in gold mines.

The demand for the product came mainly from the country's vast gold mines, centered on the Witwatersrand.

A 50-foot containment wall surrounds the island, and mines have been placed on all bridges and patrolled waterways.

During World War II, he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey, and Nevill Mott ; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against German minesweepers.

No human casualties from mines or UXO have been reported in the Falkland Islands since 1984, and no civilian mine casualties have ever occurred on the islands.

On 9 May 2008, the Falkland Islands Government asserted that the minefields which represent 0. 1 % of the available farmland on the islands " present no long term social or economic difficulties for the Falklands " and that the impact of clearing the mines would cause more problems than containing them.

At Wigan, he visited many homes to see how people lived, took detailed notes of housing conditions and wages earned, went down a coal mine, and used the local public library to consult public health records and reports on working conditions in mines.

A facility on this principle was built on the Montreal River at Ragged Shutes near Cobalt, Ontario in 1910 and supplied 5, 000 horsepower to nearby mines.

In 2008 some Zimbabwean lawyers and opposition politicians from Mutare claimed that Shiri was the prime mover behind the military assaults on illegal diggers in the diamond mines in the east of Zimbabwe.

The armor on most up-armored HMMWVs holds up well against lateral attacks, when the blast is distributed in all different directions, but offers little protection from a mine blast below the truck, such as buried improvised explosive devices ( IEDs ) and land mines.

A number of Newcomen engines were successfully put to use in Britain for draining hitherto unworkable deep mines, with the engine on the surface ; these were large machines, requiring a lot of capital to build, and produced about.

Gunpowder was needed for the tin mines and granite quarries then in operation on the moor.

Many other small, rural centres are served by private fields on sugar estates or bauxite mines.

" His father hoped that the lead mines on the property could be commercially developed, as lead was an essential component of bullets.

The Widow Krupp greatly expanded the family's holdings over the decades, acquiring a fulling mill, shares in four coal mines, and ( in 1800 ) an iron forge located on a stream near Essen.

Zeppelins would sometimes land on the sea surface next to a minesweeper, bring aboard an officer and show him the lay of the mines.

The Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) text of the Wubei Zhi ( Treatise on Armament Technology ), written by Mao Yuanyi in 1628, outlined the use of land mines that were triggered by the heat of a slow-burning incandescent material in an underground bowl placed directly above the train of fuses leading to the mines buried 3 ft beneath.