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.

But since railroading and mining are not the highest paid arts, Mantle and Maris concentrate on baseball.

The Bolivian Andes produce principally tin although historically silver mining had a huge impact on the economy of 17th century Europe.

Botswana's impressive economic record has been built on a foundation of diamond mining, prudent fiscal policies, international financial and technical assistance, and a cautious foreign policy.

On his return to England he speculated on the stock exchange on various South American mining companies.

Armand Bombardier therefore decided to diversify his business, first by producing tracked snowplows sized specifically for use on municipal sidewalks ( replacing horse-drawn vehicles ), then by making all-terrain vehicles for the mining, oil, and forestry industries.

The British Pacific Island Company acquired the rights to Clipperton's guano deposits in 1906, and built a mining settlement on the island in conjunction with the Mexican government.

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 northern New Brunswick communities of Edmundston, Campbellton, Dalhousie, Bathurst, and Miramichi are focused on the pulp and paper industry and some mining activity.

Carson City's development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center.

The economy of the second largest country in Africa relies heavily on mining.

The economy of the second largest country in Africa relies heavily on mining.

In 2002, tin was discovered in the east of the country, but, to date, mining has been on a small scale.

This led to a weakening of the domestic economy after Columbus ' discovery of America, as the economy became dependent on colonial activities ( plundering, mining, cattle, plantations, trade, etc.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

Gabon ’ s industry is centered on petroleum, manganese mining, and timber processing.

The busiest ports are Port-Gentil, the center for exports of petroleum products and imports of mining equipment, and Owendo, a new port that opened in 1974 on the Ogooué estuary, 10 km north of Libreville.

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Geotechnical engineering is important in civil engineering, but is also used by military, mining, petroleum, or any other engineering concerned with construction on or in the ground.

The work is a complete and systematic treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy, illustrated with many fine and interesting woodcuts which illustrate every conceivable process to extract ores from the ground and metal from the ore, and more besides.

Until that time, Pliny's work Historia Naturalis was the main source of information on metals and mining techniques, and Agricola made numerous references to the Roman encyclopedia.

The foreign mining companies employed a small work force, provided little or no government revenue, and relied mostly on imported mining equipment.

In the late 19th Century there were British claims on the island, as well as attempts at setting up mining.

Wagonways for moving coal in the mining areas had started in the 17th century and were often associated with canal or river systems for the further movement of coal.

In 2000 it was estimated that 3, 500 tailings impoundments existed, and that every year, 2 to 5 major failures and 35 minor failures occurred ; for example, in the Marcopper mining disaster at least 2 million tons of tailings were released into a local river.

With the decline in the coal mining industry, the quality of the river improved in the 1960s and 1970s so that some salmon and sea-trout started to return to the river to spawn.

A week later, the third spill occurred at the same mining site at Baia Borsa, staining the river black, possibly including heavy metals.

By the start of the American Civil War in 1861 there were several small river mill settlements, some mining camps and about nine or ten towns ( seven platted ) in Jasper County, Missouri.

The Bergische industry ordered more and more coal from the new coal mining area along the Ruhr river.

The Russians however did not engage in any significant mining activities and it wasn't until after the purchase of Alaska in 1867 that the American prospectors began seriously investigating the potential for prospecting along the Kuskokwim river.

The river might have been named for Theodore Fox, a local mining magnate.

Marshall's previous name, changed in 1984, from Fortuna Ledge, was a mining village in the 1800s and early 1900s, with mining operations in Wilson Creek, just down river from the Ledge.

The town of Rowe grew around mills on the river, but also had other industries, including sulfur, talc and soapstone mining.

By 1861 there were several small river mill settlements, some mining camps and about nine or ten towns ( seven platted ) in Jasper County, Missouri.

The small river city is noted for having a rich cultural history related to both its coal mining and Italian-American heritages.

The municipality of Charleroi straddles both banks of the river Sambre in an area marked by industrial activities ( coal mining and steel industry ), which has been nicknamed the Pays Noir (" Black Country "), part of the larger sillon industriel.

Due to the open-pit mining of lignite in the Hambacher Loch, the flow of the river had to be changed.

From the upper reaches which contain antiquities and mining remains the river flows roughly southwest and enters the sea near ( and gives its name ) to the city of Plymouth, where the settlement was historically known as Sutton.

Jihlava is a centre of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava river ( German Igel ) on the ancient frontier between Moravia and Bohemia, and is the oldest mining town in the Czech Republic, ca.

Two major problems threaten the environment of the Cordillera: dam projects flood river valleys and remove habitat and also cause people to flee their houses and seek refuge in other areas ; mining project destroy forest areas and also don't create wealth and resources for the upkeep of the tribal lands.

By the 1950s, the course of the river near its mouth had been affected by subsidence from coal mining, and the lowering of the channel resulted in much of the surrounding land being regularly flooded.

The situation had not improved by the 1960s, when the Yorkshire Ouse River Board noted that industrial waste from the mining, paper making, brewing and textile industries was being dumping into the river without any treatment.

Today, the river is used commercially by tourboats and sand and gravel mining barges.

Principal sources of this element are located in river sands of the Ural Mountains, in North and South America and also in the copper-nickel sulfide mining area of the Sudbury Basin region.

In the old riverbed of the Deûle / Souchez river ( long-since drained by the creation of the Lens canal ) and on the former mining area, the local authorities have created a landscape whose objective is to supplement the wastewater treatment leaving the sewage treatment plant at Fouquières by biological methods to eliminate pathogens and phosphates.

The upper reaches of the river became an area of widespread logging, as well as gold mining near the head of Ogle Creek.