While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

At any cost, he must leave the dreary Pennsylvania mining town where his father was a pharmacist.

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

After this, the iron industry was represented only by a small tinplate works, but by this stage the economy of the town was dominated by the coal mining industry.

For many decades the textiles industry, the engineering industry and coal mining were the central activities of the town.

The town changed very little over the years, until 1968 when the large scale mining of kaolin, bauxitic kaolin, and bauxite was begun by Mulcoa, Mullite Company of America, which turned of scrub oak wilderness into a massive mining and refining operation.

He returned to Zwickau in 1527, and was chosen as town physician at Joachimsthal, a centre of mining and smelting works, his object being partly " to fill in the gaps in the art of healing ", and partly to test what had been written about mineralogy by careful observation of ores and the methods of their treatment.

After a brief stay in Chicago, visiting relatives, they moved to the coal mining town of Windber, Pennsylvania.

For many years, Kinglassie was a weaving village but in the 19th and 20th centuries it developed as a mining town.

In 2004, French officials decided to build a satellite museum on the site of an abandoned coal pit in the former mining town of Lens to relieve the crowded Paris Louvre, increase total museum visits, and improve the industrial north's economy.

In 1762, the world's first mining academy was established in the same town.

* 1908 – A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.

In 1905, the first Socialist mayor in the Austro-Hungarian Empire was elected in the Slovene mining town of Idrija on the list of the Yugoslav Social Democratic Party.

Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys and the movie October Sky tell the story of how a coal miner's son, inspired by Sputnik, started building rockets in the mining town where he lived.

* Potosí, in modern day Bolivia, is founded by the Spanish as a mining town.

Her father, Richard, was a cabinetmaker who supplemented his income by mining the coastal cliff-side fossil beds near the town, and selling his finds to tourists.

The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains.

By the mid-1990s, Telluride had shed both its mining personality and drug image to establish itself as a premier resort town balancing modern culture with fascinating western history.

Originally a mining town, Telluride now is known for its ski resort, Telluride Ski Resort.

Ghost towns are common in mining or old mill town areas: Arizona, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington in the western United States and West Virginia in the eastern USA.

Another former mining town, Real de Catorce in Mexico, has been used as a backdrop for Hollywood movies such as The Mexican, Bandidas, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

On hearing word of gold on the south slope of Pike's Peak he made his big strike on July 4, 1891, near the present town of Victor, Colorado, in the Cripple Creek mining district.

His sister Cecilia and her husband Elfed took him into their Presbyterian mining family in nearby Port Talbot ( an English-speaking steel town ).

This ceremony combined a psychedelic experience with traditional Native American spiritual values ; these people went on to sponsor a unique genre of musical expression and performance at the Red Dog Saloon in the isolated, old-time mining town of Virginia City, Nevada.

Briceville played an important role in three major late-19th and early-20th century incidents related to the region's coal mining activities: the Coal Creek War in 1891, the Fraterville Mine disaster of 1902, and the Cross Mountain Mine disaster of 1911.

Merrell, a French-born Knights of Labor activist, had been chased out of mining towns in Indiana before settling in Briceville, where he was blacklisted for Union activities in 1889, and made his living operating a mercantile store.

The D & RG built west from Leadville over Tennessee Pass in an attempt to reach the mining areas around Aspen, Colorado before its rival railroad in the area, the Colorado Midland, could build a line reaching there.

Most saltpeter mining in Middle Tennessee occurred during the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

Little mining in this area is likely to have occurred during the Civil War, because this part of Tennessee fell under Federal control very early in the war.

Most saltpeter mining in Middle Tennessee occurred during the War of 1812 and the Civil War, but the exact date of this operation is unclear.

It is possible that any or all of these caves may have also been mined during the War of 1812, when saltpeter mining was widespread in both Kentucky and Tennessee.

In the late 1880s, an abundance of financial capital, the popularity of social theories regarding planned cities, and a thriving coal mining industry in East Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau region led to the establishment of a number of company towns throughout the Upper Tennessee Valley, most of which were funded by investors from the northeast or Knoxville.

* SOCM, or Statewide Organization for Community Empowerment ( formerly known as Save Our Cumberland Mountains ), a grassroots group trying to ban mountain top removal mining and bring green Jobs to Tennessee, had its offices in Lake City for several years.

While in Congress, she served on the House Committee on Government Operations and advocated for a balanced federal budget, coal mining interests, TVA, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission programs in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and cost of living increases in Social Security pensions.

He was born in the Windrock coal mining camp overlooking the town of Oliver Springs, Tennessee, and became a British skiffle star in 1957 with the hit record " Last Train to San Fernando ",

Category: Coal mining disasters in Tennessee

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad constructed a narrow gauge railroad over Tennessee Pass in 1881 as part of their extension to the Aspen area to beat the Colorado Midland Standard Gauge route to the rich mining area.

This method of coal mining has created some of the worst environmental disasters in the Mississippi area in regards to the poisoning of waterways, the flooding of local communities, and the destruction of the biodiversity of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

The most commercially successful Appalachian mining song is Merle Travis ' " Sixteen Tons ," which has been recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford, Johnny Cash, and dozens of other artists.

* One day after the mining disaster in Kentucky, thirteen coal miners were killed in an explosion at Tennessee Conolidation Coal Company Mine No. 21 in Whitwell, Tennessee.

The paper was a failure, in part because the mining " bubble " burst in late 1825, which ruined Powles and Disraeli.

The moor gave its name ( Foweymore ) to one of the medieval districts called stannaries which administered tin mining: the boundaries of these were never defined precisely.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 33, 171 of which 24, 848 or ( 74. 9 %) were in manufacturing, 10 were in mining and 7, 313 ( 22. 0 %) were in construction.

Despite a general selling of state property and contrary to neoliberal prescriptions, the regime retained the lucrative state owned mining company CODELCO which stands for about 30 % of government income.

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.

In 2000, mining accounted for 2 % of GDP, which grew by 7. 8 %.

His family was one of the wealthiest families in Mexico: his grandfather had founded the Compañía Industrial de Parras, which was initially involved in vineyards, cotton, and textiles, and later expanded into mining, cotton mills, ranching, banking, coal, rubber, and foundries in the later part of the nineteenth century.

In 2004, Guyana's road network was approximately long, 24 percent or 940 kilometers of which comprised primary roads in the coastal and riverine areas serving the agricultural sector, while the road to Linden serves the mining and forestry sectors.

Gold also dissolves in alkaline solutions of cyanide, which have been used in mining.

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.

He described many mining methods which are now redundant, such as fire-setting, which involved building fires against hard rock faces.

Estimates for the value of the gold which might be extracted through open-pit mining are as high as $ 20 billion.

Agriculture prospered, as did all sectors except for coal mining, which was operating mines near exhaustion.

As the impact between steel hammer heads and the objects being hit can, and does, create sparks, which in some industries such as underground coal mining with methane gas, or in other hazardous environments containing flammable gases and vapours, can be dangerous and risk igniting the gases.

In the 1870s, deriving from uses in the California mining industry, Lester Allan Pelton developed the high efficiency Pelton wheel impulse turbine, which utilized hydropower from the high head streams characteristic of the mountainous California interior.

The most obvious evidence of mining to the casual visitor to Dartmoor are the remains of the old engine-house at Wheal Betsy which is alongside the A386 road between Tavistock and Okehampton.

The Convention also established a body called the Enterprise which is to serve as the Authority ’ s own mining operator, but no concrete steps have been taken to bring this into being.

Increasing business and income taxes, Nehru envisaged a mixed economy in which the government would manage strategic industries such as mining, electricity and heavy industries, serving public interest and a check to private enterprise.

The major sources of toxic waste in the water supply are the mercury mining combine at Haidarkan ; the antimony mine at Kadamzai ; the Kadzyi Sai uranium mine, which ceased extraction in 1967 but which continues to leach toxic materials into nearby Ysyk Köl ; the Kara-Balta Uranium Recovery Plant ; the Min Kush deposit of mine tailings ; and the Kyrgyz Mining and Metallurgy Plant at Orlovka.

These facilitated information retrieval and data mining efforts, which have in recent years begun to relate to knowledge representation.

The eastern part of the province is a rich mining region, which supplies cobalt, copper, tin, radium, uranium, and diamonds.