* Edward Ormerod, mining engineer and inventor of the Ormerod safety link for use in coal mines

The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.

In Philadelphia, Beaux's aunt Emily married mining engineer William Foster Biddle, whom Beaux would later describe as " after my grandmother, the strongest and most beneficent influence in my life.

The translation was made by Herbert Hoover, then an American mining engineer ( better known to history for his later term as a President of the United States ), and his wife Lou Henry Hoover.

Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.

Anthony Francis Lucas, an experienced mining engineer and salt driller, drilled a well to find oil at Spindletop Hill.

Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author.

" He served as a geologist and mining engineer while searching the Western Australian goldfields for investments.

In February 1681, Johann Wilhelm Vogel, a Dutch mining engineer at Salida, Sumatra ( near Padang ), on his way to Batavia ( modern Jakarta ) passed through the Sunda Strait.

Finally they prospected the Tarua River south past the tributary which flows to Waipai, once more without success and on the advice of mining engineer Seale, it was decided there was nothing to justify further exploration.

After leading the first expedition, Sam Freeman did not return and Reg Beazley became party leader of the second expedition, with Pontey Seale mining engineer, Bill MacGregor and Beazley prospectors and recruiters, and Ernie Shepherd in charge of transport and supplies, prospecting when opportunity arose.

The only exception was the mining engineers, which called themselves bergsingenjör (" mountain engineer ").

Three notable figures from the early days of engineering were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth with considerable locomotive design experience and John Kennedy, a Manchester cotton spinner and a major proponent of the railway.

The word " turbine " was coined in 1822 by the French mining engineer Claude Burdin from the Latin turbo, or vortex, in a memoir, " Des turbines hydrauliques ou machines rotatoires à grande vitesse ", which he submitted to the Académie royale des sciences in Paris.

** Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician ( b. 1839 )

* December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician ( b. 1854 )

The German Franz Xaver von Baader ( 1765 – 1841 ) was a mining engineer at that time and, in a mining journal, he advocated a conical-shaped space at the forward end of a blasting charge to increase the explosive's effect and thereby save powder.

Later, the manager of the Chrysolite mine fooled an outside mining engineer into overestimating the ore reserves of that mine.

* Harvey Seeley Mudd, famous mining engineer and founder of Cyprus Mines Corporation.

Pleasants, a mining engineer from Pennsylvania in civilian life, proposed digging a long mine shaft underneath the Confederate lines and planting explosive charges directly underneath a fort ( Elliott's Salient ) in the middle of the Confederate First Corps line.

In 1903, mining engineer and businessman Daniel M. Barringer suggested that the crater had been produced by the impact of a large iron-metallic meteorite.

* Richard Smith ( mining engineer ) ( 1783 – 1868 ), English-born mining engineer and politician in Nova Scotia

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

It is almost certain that some of these, usually a trifle smaller than the honeybees, are andrenas or mining bees.

Germany is Armenia ’ s largest trading partner among EU member states, accounting for 7. 2 percent of trade ; this is due largely to mining exports.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

Other than agriculture and tourism, the main economic activity in this vast and sparsely settled area is mining.

Because of its size, the value of grazing and mining is considerable.

The Pilbara region's economy is dominated by mining and petroleum industries.

The land is predominantly flat to gently undulating tableland, although there is some hilly country, where mining is carried out.

Another example is using naturally present bacteria by the mining industry in bioleaching.

The mining sector in Chile is one of the pillars of Chilean economy.

Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.

William Davis Miners ' Memorial Day is celebrated in coal mining towns to commemorate the deaths of miners at the hands of the coal companies.

Glace Bay is the second largest urban community in population and was the island's main coal mining centre until its last mine ceased operation in the 1980s.

It is later revealed that Tiberium was introduced to Earth by the Scrin, an extremely advanced race of Tiberium-based aliens bent on mining the planet after the Tiberium deposits have reached maturity.

The main source of the data is cleaned, transformed, cataloged and made available for use by managers and other business professionals for data mining, online analytical processing, market research and decision support ( Marakas & O ' Brien 2009 ).

poaching threatens wildlife populations ( for example, the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus is now considered extinct in the Congo due to human overpopulation and poaching ); water pollution ; deforestation ( chiefly due to land conversion to agriculture by indigenous farmers ); refugees responsible for significant deforestation, soil erosion, and wildlife poaching ; mining of minerals ( coltan — a mineral used in creating capacitors, diamonds, and gold ) causing environmental damage

Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans ( due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones ), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place ( behind mining ) in terms of export earnings.

Dynamite is mainly used in the mining, quarrying, construction, and demolition industries, and it has had some historical usage in warfare.

* 1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.

Although many of the mining methods are now redundant, such as hushing and fire-setting, it is Pliny who recorded them for posterity, thereby helping us understand their importance in a modern context.