Thasos, a member of the League, saw her interests in the mines of Mt.

He also records that he owned gold mines at Scapte Hyle ( literally: " Dug Woodland "), a coastal area in Thrace, opposite the island of Thasos.

Herodotus, who visited Thasos, says that the best mines on the island were those opened by the Phoenicians on the east side of the island facing Samothrace.

Besides its gold mines, the wine, nuts and marble of Thasos were well known in antiquity.

Mardonius first attacked Thasos, a Greek island which possessed gold mines.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

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 ''.

The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area, where American troops found 75 kilos of gold coins stored in a single mine, were used to store looted art, jewels, and currency ; vast quantities of looted art were found and returned to the owners.

Potosí in present-day Bolivia and Cerro de Pasco in Peru were one of the principal mines of the Spanish Empire in the New World.

A group of camps was established, and prisoners were forced to work in the coal mines.

In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.

For the first time, armored cars or limousines were put into service for safer transport, with modern versions virtually invulnerable to small arms fire, smaller bombs and mines.

Cambodia is also recovering from the land mines which were used heavily by the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese ; it will take approximately a decade to remove most of the land mines from Cambodia.

The mines were in a neglected state, caused by careless operations dating back at least to the time of the final fall of Louisbourg.

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

They were soon to be used in mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping.

These were used in cranes and aboard ships in Ancient Greece, as well as in mines, water pumps and siege engines in Ancient Rome.

2nd Armoured Brigade sent forward two regiments to help but they were halted by mines and anti-tank fire.

Lower Silesia, which contained coal mines, and Stettin, a prominent natural port, were lost to Poland.

The most important mines were located in the mountains near the capital of Tegucigalpa and were owned by the New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company ( NYHRMC ).

The Muslim rulers were keen to invade India, which was a rich region, with a flourishing international trade and the only known diamond mines in the world.

In the 17th and 18th there was some production of iron in Kalmar County, totalling about 10 mines ; of those 2 were located to the municipality of Hultsfred.

For instance, electors were granted a monopoly over all mines of gold, silver, and other metals within their territories, to tax Jews, to collect tolls, and to mint money ; these powers belonged to the Emperor in the other territories, and princes who wrongly assumed them could be deprived of their status.

These were developments that had begun before the Industrial Revolution, but the adoption of James Watt's more efficient steam engine from the 1770s reduced the fuel costs of engines, making mines more profitable.

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.

Most of Australia's iron ore is also mined in the Pilbara and it also has one of the world's major manganese mines,

That same year Disraeli's financial activities brought him into contact with the publisher John Murray who was also involved in the South American mines.

Settlers can also alter terrain, build improvements such as mines and irrigation, build roads to connect cities, and later in the game they can construct railroads which offer unlimited movement.

They also had the superintendence of all the other revenues of the state, the vectigalia, such as the tithes paid for the public lands, the salt works, the mines, the customs, etc.

Tuberculosis ( spread in congested dwellings ), lung diseases from the mines, cholera from polluted water and typhoid were also common.

Vehicles must also protect crew against anti-personnel mines and against anti-tank mines.

He also invested in fluidized hotbed technologies ( notably the Bessemer process ) and acquired many mines in Germany and France.

These had turbines, twelve 10. 5 cm guns as main armament, but were also equipped to carry and lay 100 mines.

However, the Huolongjing also describes land mines that were set off by enemy movement, called the ' ground-thunder explosive camp ', one of the ' self-trespassing ' ( zifan ) types, as the text says:

Nuclear mines have also been developed, both land and naval varieties.

Anti-personnel mines commonly use the pressure of a person's foot as a trigger, but tripwires are also frequently employed.

Some types of anti-personnel mines can also damage the tracks or wheels of armored vehicles.

Animals like rats and dogs can also differentiate between other metal objects and land mines because they can be trained to detect the explosive agent itself.

In Saskatchewan, Canada, there also are ancient quartz mines near Waddy Lake and surrounding regions.

Watering down in coal mines also helps to keep dust levels down: by spraying the machine with water and filtering the dust-laden water with a scrubber fan, miners can successfully trap the dust.

There also are copper mines in northeastern Nicaragua.

In regards to laying mines, "... the laying of mines in the waters of another State without any warning or notification is not only an unlawful act but also a breach of the principles of humanitarian law underlying the Hague Convention No. VIII of 1907.

Several other technologies have also been investigated, such as flywheels, which can store kinetic energy, and compressed air storage that can be pumped into underground caverns and abandoned mines.

The mines also served as a tool for political influence, creating a faction in Carthage's magistrate that was called the Barcino.