Typical subjects include mining, raising and droving cattle, sheep shearing, wanderings, war stories, the 1891 Australian shearers ' strike, class conflicts between the landless working class and the squatters ( landowners ), and outlaws such as Ned Kelly, as well as love interests and more modern fare such as trucking.

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.

Gunpowder is no longer used in modern explosive military warheads, nor is it used as main explosive in mining operations due to its cost relative to that of newer alternatives such as ammonium nitrate / fuel oil ( ANFO ).

They were extremely inefficient by modern standards, but when located where coal was cheap at pit heads, opened up a great expansion in coal mining by allowing mines to go deeper.

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.

Recent films such as Clash of the Titans, Immortals or Thor continue the trend of mining traditional mythology in order to directly create a plot for modern consumption.

The presence of heavy equipment in confined spaces also poses a risk to miners, and despite modern improvements to safety practices, mining remains dangerous throughout the world.

They also established a relatively balanced economy, transforming what was once a primary producer dependent on backwoods farming into an industrial giant which spawned a strong manufacturing sector, iron and steel industries, and modern mining ventures.

Although siege warfare had moved out from an urban setting because city walls had become ineffective against modern weapons, trench warfare was nonetheless able to use many of the techniques of siege warfare in its prosecution ( sapping, mining, barrage and, of course, attrition ) but on a much larger scale and on a greatly extended front.

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

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.

The modern petrological term basalt describing a particular composition of lava-derived rock originates from its use by Georgius Agricola in 1556 in his famous work of mining and minerology De re metallica, libri XII.

The modern history of Wales starts in the 19th century when South Wales became heavily industrialised with ironworks ; this, along with the spread of coal mining to the Cynon and Rhondda valleys from the 1840s, led to a increase in population.

In modern times, coal mining is important in Shanxi's economy, but severe critics have complained of deplorable mine conditions.

The company will use modern strip mining techniques to extract chromite, zircon, and garnet from local sands.

* Simon Moores, the mining industry's writer, author and modern day thinker who made his name in Industrial Minerals magazine.

The eastern portion of the county is located in the highest peaks of the San Juan Mountains, around the old mining and modern tourist town of Rico, and except for cattle grazing in the San Juan National Forest, has virtually no agriculture, in part because its elevations range from 9, 000 to 14, 000 +.

Clarkdale was built to be one of the most modern mining towns in the world, including telephone, telegraph, electrical, sewer and spring water services, and was an early example of a planned community.

Firmin V. Desloge, II became acquainted with mining through his father and acquired many claims in the area of what is modern day Desloge and Bonne Terre.

In the 9th century BC, development and expansion of mining in both the Negev and Edom ( modern Jordan ) coincided with the rise of the Assyrian Empire.

In 1881 the railroad linking Hermosillo with Guaymas and Nogales was finished, allowing for economic expansion in the area by bringing in mining equipment and modern agricultural equipment.

Jakob leased the copper mines in Neusohl ( modern Banská Bystrica, Slovakia ) in 1495, eventually making them up into the greatest mining centre of the time.

The area played an important role as the setting of the earliest stages of the early modern transformation of mining and metallurgy from a craft to a large-scale industry, a process that preceded and enabled the later industrial revolution.

The development of modern modes of extracting minerals made gold mining an exclusively foreign-run enterprise.

Steiner is considered one of the founders of the modern organic farming movement.

The agricultural sector is hampered by the absence of modern farming equipment and techniques, erratic rainfall, exhausted soils, and lack of financial services and investment.

He also founded a system of organic agriculture, now known as Biodynamic agriculture, which was one of the very first forms of, and has contributed significantly to the development of, modern organic farming.

In modern days, Great Barrier Islanders are generally occupied in tourism, farming or service-related industries, when not working off-island in other jobs.

After the consolidation of the town itself and its adjacent communities in 1964, Molde became a modern city, encompassing most branches of employment, from farming and fisheries, through industrial production, to banking, higher education, tourism, commerce, health care, and civil administration.

It promoted modern farming practices, as well as elementary education.

The ' Cherokee triumvirate ' of James Vann and his protégés The Ridge and Charles R. Hicks advocated acculturation, formal education, and modern methods of farming.

But, there is ample evidence that the Cherokee were adapting modern farming techniques.

The use of mules for farming and transportation of agricultural products largely gave way to modern tractors and trucks.

Although the useful information was more likely to concern unexploded land mines and opium addiction than the latest modern farming techniques, the inspiration and model of Naway Kor, Naway Jwand was The Archers, and the initial workshopping with Afghan writers included an Archers scriptwriter.

In modern Levantine Arabic, the word serves as an adjective describing farming that relies only on rainwater as a source of irrigation.

In 1801, the civil parishes that form the modern borough had a total population of 6, 404 ; and the area was characterised by farming and woodland — with settlement principally around the Great North Road.

In 1801, the civil parishes that form the modern borough had a total population of 1, 937 ; and the area was characterised by farming, woodland and the fishing fleet at Barking.

Most modern historians believe that this famine was caused by the sudden disruption of production brought on by collective farming policies and mass seizure of property ( the proceeds of which were used, according to Aleksandr Bushkov, to accelerate industrial development ).

As the river declined through the effects of abstraction, dredging and modern farming methods these fish largely died out.

Since the advent of modern drainage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Fens have been radically transformed, so that today arable farming has almost entirely replaced pastoral and the economy of the Fens is heavily invested in the production of crops such as grains, vegetables and some cash crops such as rapeseed or canola.

Pre modern intensive farming techniques and structures include terracing, rice paddies, and various forms of aquaculture.

Unfortunately, yields of any specific crop often diminish and the change can present new challenges to farmers relying on modern farming equipment which is best suited to monoculture.

** Intensive pig farming, modern large-scale farming of domestic pigs

Examples: training of skilled workers, the development of labor hire systems that provide continuity of work in industries with strong seasonal peaks, modern communication tools, investigating market opportunities, researching customer requirements, business planning including financial management, researching the latest farming techniques, risk management skills )

With modern machinery and fertilizing techniques it has become possible to use some previously uncultivated downland for arable farming, and the decline of extensive grazing has meant that many areas of downland, whilst not cultivated, when ungrazed revert to scrub or other less rare habitat, essentially destroying the delicate calcareous grassland.

The salmon represents fishing in various forms: as a traditional way of living and source of income, as modern fish farming, and as a recreational activity.