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.

Dresden's founding and early growth is associated with the eastward expansion of Germanic peoples, mining in the nearby Ore Mountains, and the establishment of the Margraviate of Meissen.

Its principal city is Lille, which with nearby Roubaix, Tourcoing and Villeneuve d ' Ascq constitutes the center of a cluster of industrial and former mining towns totalling slightly over a million inhabitants.

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

The war also caused an increase in the mining of molybdenum at the nearby Climax mine, which at one time produced 75 percent of the world's molybdenum.

In the past, nearby steel, mining and railroad operations provided a strong source of income with Silver King Coalition Mines, Geneva Steel, Bingham Canyon Mine, and oil refineries.

The last nearby mines closed in the late 1960s, but a school founded in 1885 by the Michigan State Legislature to teach metallurgy and mining engineering, the Michigan College of Mines, continues today under the name of Michigan Technological University and is the primary employer in the city.

* From late December 1863 to 1864 the Montana Vigilantes were formed by citizens of Bannack, Virginia City and nearby Nevada City to fight lawlessness in the gold mining region of Montana.

She met Frank Berton in the nearby mining town of Granville shortly after settling in Dawson and teaching kindergarten.

Along with electricity production, Traralgon benefits from the mining for oil and natural gas in the nearby Bass Strait fields.

Archaeological excavations uncovered impressive prehistoric tombs dating to the 7th millennium BC at the western edge of Eilat, while nearby copper workings and mining operations at Timna Valley are the oldest on earth.

Cravens was also mining Nickajack Cave in nearby Marion County.

The county's first boom came in the early 20th century, when Rhyolite and Tonopah, as well as Goldfield in nearby Esmeralda County were all experiencing mining booms.

Doe Run in nearby St. Francois County continues mining and battery reclamation in the area today.

Green Coal Company was a staple mining company in Daviess County and was based nearby in Henderson, Kentucky.

The victims in rough caskets, 1913. By 1900, Red Jacket had a population of 4, 668, and Calumet Township, which contained Red Jacket and nearby mining towns, had a population of 25, 991.

Some gypsum mining still continues at nearby Marion Bay.

Established as a mining camp in the early 1900s, Fox functions as a bedroom community today and most residents work in nearby Fairbanks.

The town was originally a mining camp named Slate Creek, and around 1900 got its present name when prospectors going up the nearby Koyukuk River would get " cold feet " and turn around.

The biggest employer in Morenci ( and in nearby Clifton ) is Freeport-McMoRan, the owner of the Morenci Mine, the largest copper mining operation in North America, and one of the largest copper mines in the world.

Just before World War II, the shortage of cinnabar caused a brief but productive mining industry in the nearby mountains south of the town, a phenomenon which became known as the Quicksilver Rush.

Nevada City is twinned with Penzance, a seaside town in Cornwall, UK and the nearby tin and copper mining town of St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, UK.

Near the end of the 1850s, the nearby mining camps of Hooperville and Deadwood began to disband as a result of the dwindling stores of placer gold, epidemic illness and decimating fires.

The community was named for President Benjamin Harrison, due to a large wood mill and stop for mining boats coming off the nearby Coeur d ' Alene River.

After coal was discovered and mining began in nearby Carterville, Harrison, and his cousins Ephraim Snyder Herrin and Mrs. Williams in 1892 prospected for coal beginning at the southwest corner of Williams ' farm, identified in 1939 as the corner of Legion Boulevard and East Herrin St. ( Legion Blvd no longer appears on the maps, but the reference indicates the intersection was the North and North East public roads.

At the same time, a bypass shortened the Nordschleife to, and with an additional small pit lane, this version was used for races in 1983, e. g. the 1000km Nürburgring endurance race, while construction work was going on nearby.

Inmates worked in either the nearby gravel pit or irrigation area.

Treblinka I inmates worked in either the nearby gravel pit or irrigation area.

Some pit villages outgrew nearby towns by area and population ; for example, Rossington in South Yorkshire came to have over four times more people than the nearby town of Bawtry.

The rail line was once part of the now defunct Southern Railway and prior to that the Atlantic & Yadkin Railway and until a few years ago many older Southern marked freight gondolas could be found parked on a side track downtown and at the nearby old Pomona Clay pit.

However, the charged fragments ' high electric charge causes many inelastic collisions with nearby nuclei, and thus these fragments remain trapped inside the bomb's uranium pit and tamper until their motion is converted into x-ray heat, a process which takes about a millionth of a second ( a microsecond ).

The remains of a Neanderthal lay nearby in another stone pit, with various objects, including a bear humerus, a scraper, a core, and some flakes, which were interpreted as grave offerings.

Reuben, being the eldest, took control of the situation and didn't want his brothers to kill Joseph so he suggested that they throw him into a nearby pit.

Each camp has cleared tent sites, a pit or composting toilet, bear pole for hanging food, and a nearby water source.

A nearby village's name, Bombarral, can be translated as " good-clay pit ", revealing that the pottery tradition has been settled here since ancient times.

Tourists are drawn to the area by nearby beaches and attractions such as the Eden Project, sited in a former clay pit, and the Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Compared to Otter Creek these coal resources are easier to develop — the coal resources of Young's creek lies within five to ten miles of the railroad spur line which is used to ship coal from the nearby open pit mines being operated by Kiewit in the Decker, Montana area, and the communities of Sheridan and Ranchester already exist to serve as a base for the work force needed to develop coal mines at Youngs Creek.

Incidentally, the name " Loch Croispol " itself is of interest in that it suggests that the local gallows " croich " was situated nearby when the Chief of Mackay held the right of pit and gallows.

When the pit was closed, the water pumps in the nearby Kelly shaft, at a depth of 3, 800 feet, were turned off, and groundwater from the surrounding aquifers began to slowly fill the pit, rising at about the rate of one foot a month.

The shed was originally on the Bowes Railway, with locos used on the Tanfield branch stabled at the nearby Bowes Bridge MPD ( a sub-shed of Gateshead ) whose coaling stage and turntable pit are still visible adjacent to the track between Andrews House and Sunniside.

A new pit is dug somewhere nearby, and soil got by digging the new pit is used to cover and cap off the old pit.

Picking up their hand grenades, he then demolished the remaining portion of the strong point from the shelter of a nearby gun pit.

In 1964, rail services to the town ceased after the closure of the nearby sulfur pit and the ensuing loss of freight traffic, which made operation of the line uneconomic.

Its coal mine closed in 1968-the same year that the nearby Middleton pit closed.

Northeast of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, a borrow pit excavated for fill used to maintain nearby artificial levees, exposed three levels of rooted upright tree trunks stacked on top of each other lying completely buried beneath the surface of Point Houmas, a patch of floodplain lying within a meander loop of the current course of the Mississippi River.