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| x Honister Slate Mine |
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The Honister Slate Mine is a group of slate mines and quarries located at the top of the Honister Pass in the Lake District in England. The earliest reference to quarrying at this location is from 1728.
In 1870 very substantial underground workings...
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| x Bardh open-cast coal mine |
Bardh open-cast coal mine is lignite based coal mine in Kosovo operatied by Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK).
The open-cast coal mines of Bardh and Mirash cover a working surface area of 10 km2 and if all the external dump sites from 1956-1991 are...
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| x Mirash open-cast coal mine |
The Mirash and Bardh open-cast coal mines are lignite coal mines in Kosovo operatied by the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK).
The two mines cover a working surface area of 10 km and, if all the external dump sites from 1956-1991 are included, the...
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| x Grimes Graves Flint Mines | ||
| x Borrowdale Wad Mines | ||
| x Murrayshall & Craigend Limeworks | ||
| x Burn Naze salt works | ||
| x Preesall Salt Mines | ||
| x Mining |
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Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone,...
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| x Mining engineering |
Mining engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the practice, the theory, the science, the technology, and application of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. Mining engineering also includes...
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| x Coal mining |
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Coal mining is the extraction or removal of coal from the earth by mining. When coal is used for fuel in power generation it is referred to as steaming or thermal coal. Coal that is used to create coke for steel manufacturing is referred to as...
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| x History of coal mining |
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Due to its abundance, coal has been mined in various parts of the world throughout history and continues to be an important economic activity today. Compared to wood fuels, coal yields a higher amount of energy per mass and could be obtained in...
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| x Gold mining |
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Gold mining consists of the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground. There are several techniques by which gold may be extracted from the Earth.
Gold panning is a mostly manual technique of sorting gold. Wide,...
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| x Gold mining in the United States |
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Gold mining in the United States has taken place since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799.
US gold production greatly increased during the 1980s, due to high gold prices and the use of heap leaching to recover gold from...
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| x Copper mining in the United States |
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Copper mining in the United States has been a major industry since the rise of the northern Michigan copper district in the 1840s. In 2007 the United States produced 1.19 million metric tonnes of copper, worth $8.8 billion, making it the world's...
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| x Silver mining in the United States |
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Silver mining in the United States began on a major scale with the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1858. The industry suffered greatly from the demonetization of silver in 1873 by the "Crime of 73," but silver mining continues today.
The...
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| x Silver mining |
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Silver mining refers to the resource extraction of the precious metal element silver by mining.
Silver has been known since ancient times. It is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, and slag heaps found in Asia Minor and on the islands of the Aegean...
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| x Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining | ||
| x Lignite |
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Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad, is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat. It is considered the lowest rank of coal; it is mined in Russia, the...
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| x Slate |
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Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may...
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| x Flint |
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Chipped stone tools were made by stone age peoples worldwide. Paleolithic tools were relatively simple, repeated small flakes being struck or pressed from a cobble or nucleus until the required shape was achieved. This is called knapping.
Freshly...
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| x Lime |
Lime is a general term for calcium-containing inorganic materials, in which carbonates, oxides and hydroxides predominate. Strictly speaking, lime is calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide. It is also the name for a single mineral (native lime) of the...
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| x Open-pit mining |
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Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast mining, open-cut mining, and strip mining, refers to a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.
The term is used to differentiate this form of mining...
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| x Surface mining |
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Surface mining is a type of mining where soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit are removed. It is the opposite of underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place, and the mineral removed through shafts or tunnels.
Surface...
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| x Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 |
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The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for...
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| x Hamersley Iron |
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Pilbara Iron is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Rio Tinto Group, that manages assests for Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and Robe River Iron Associates, an unincorporated joint venture between Rio (53%...
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| x Bethlehem Steel |
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The Bethlehem Steel Corporation (1857–2003), based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was once the second-largest steel producer in the United States, after Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel. After a decline in the U.S. steel industry and...
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| x BHP Billiton Ltd. |
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BHP Billiton is the world's largest mining company. It was created in 2001 by the merger of Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) and the UK's Billiton, which had a Dutch and South African background. The result is a dual-listed company...
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| x Chevron Corporation |
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Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is an energy company. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, USA, and active in more than 180 countries, it is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production; refining,...
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| x Phelps Dodge |
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Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps and William E. Dodge. On March 19, 2007, it was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan and now operates under the name Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
Initially...
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| x Inco |
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Vale Inco (formerly CVRD Inco) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale. It is Vale's nickel mining and metals division and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It produces nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum,...
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| x Freeport-McMoRan |
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Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., (FMCG, NYSE: FCX) often called simply Freeport, is the world's lowest-cost copper producer and one of the world's largest producers of gold. It was formerly based in New Orleans, Louisiana but recently moved its...
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| x Weyland-Yutani |
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Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation in the motion picture Alien and its sequels, often referred to simply as "The Company". It is one of the corporations that runs the human colonies outside the solar system through the Extrasolar Colonization...
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| x Barrick Gold |
Barrick Gold Corporation (TSX: ABX, NYSE: ABX) is the largest pure gold mining company in the world, with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and four regional business units (RBU's) located in Australia, Africa, North America and South...
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| x Aber Diamond |
Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (TSX: HW, NYSE: HWD) formerly known as Aber is a Toronto, Canada specialist diamond mining and retail company.
The company holds a 40% stake in the Diavik Diamonds Project. Production at the Diavik Diamond Mine,...
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| x Agnico-Eagle Mines |
Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) is a Toronto based gold mining company, with current gold production located at the LaRonde and Goldex mines in Quebec and the Kittilä mine in Finland. The company has further projects located in...
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| x Aur Resources |
Aur Resources Inc. was a Toronto, Ontario, Canada, based, international mining company active in the acquisition, exploration, development and mining of mineral properties. Aur has three producing mining operations and derives approximately 95% of...
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| x Bema Gold |
Bema Gold Corporation was a Vancouver, British Columbia based intermediate gold producer with operating mines and development projects in Russia, South Africa, Chile and Canada. Bema operated the Julietta Mine in Russia, the Petrex Mines in South...
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| x Canico Resource |
Canico Resource Corp. is a Vancouver, British Columbia based junior resource company focused on the development of the Onça-Puma nickel laterite project located in Para State, Brazil. This is a large high grade, open- pittable deposit which is one...
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| x Eldorado Gold |
Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX: ELD) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based company involved in the mining, exploration and development of gold properties in China, Brazil, Greece and Turkey.
Eldorado gold is also the first North American company to...
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| x First Quantum Minerals |
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX: FM) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based mining and metals company whose principal activities include mineral exploration, development and mining.
First Quantum's common shares are listed for trading on the...
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| x FNX Mining |
FNX Mining Company Inc. (TSX: FNX) is a Toronto, Ontario based company that produces and explores for nickel, copper, platinum, palladium, gold and cobalt in the Sudbury Basin, Ontario, Canada.
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| x Bougainville Copper |
Bougainville Copper Ltd is an Australian copper, gold, and silver mining company that operates the Panguna open cut mine on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was one of the world's largest open-pit mines. The Panguna mine...
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| x Martin Marietta Materials |
Martin Marietta Materials (NYSE: MLM) is in the aggregate, chemical, and composite material business. It is the second largest producer of crushed stone, sand, and gravel in the United States. It is a leading U.S. producer of magnesia-based chemical...
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| x Codelco |
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CODELCO (Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile or, in English, the National Copper Corporation of Chile) is the Chilean State owned copper mining company formed in 1976 from the foreign owned copper companies that were nationalised in 1971. The...
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| x Aluminerie Alouette |
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Aluminerie Alouette is an aluminum manufacturing company based in Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada, on the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
With the successful start-up of a major expansion in 2005, the Alouette Aluminum Smelter, at 550,000 metric...
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| x Rio Tinto Group |
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The Rio Tinto Group is a diversified, multinational mining and resources group with headquarters in London, England and Melbourne, Australia. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on...
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| x Peter Kiewit Sons' |
Kiewit Corporation, a private company, is a Fortune 500 contractor based in Omaha, Nebraska. It is one of the largest contractors in the world. Recent projects have included several bridge retrofittings in the San Francisco Bay Area, Interstate H-3...
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| x Newmont Mining |
Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM), based in Denver, Colorado, USA, is one of the world's largest producers of gold, with active mines in, Nevada, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, and Peru. Some smaller operations include Bolivia,...
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| x Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co. |
Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., a company started in California in the 1850s and headed by George Hearst, grew to be the largest private firm of mine-owners in the United States. Hearst himself acquired the reputation of being the most expert...
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| x LKAB |
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LKAB ( Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag) is a Swedish mining company. The company is mining iron ore in mines at Kiruna and at Malmberget in northern Sweden. The company was established in 1890, and it is 100% state-owned since the 1950:s. The...
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| x Sesa Goa |
Sesa Goa is an iron ore mining company located in Goa, India, which now has been overtaken by Vedanta Resources. The company is India's largest privately-owned exporter of ore products. The MetCoke division produces 280,000 tonnes of metallurgical...
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| x Downer EDi |
Downer EDI (ASX: DOW)is an Australian Top-100 company that provides comprehensive engineering and infrastructure management services to the public and private transport, energy, infrastructure, communications and resources sectors, across Australia,...
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| x WMC Resources |
WMC Resources Limited was an Australian diversified mining and fertilizer company formerly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. WMC was an acronym for Western Mining Corporation. It was delisted on 29 June 2005 following a successful takeover by...
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| x Alumina Limited |
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Alumina Limited ASX:AWC NYSE: AWC is a public company listed on the Australian and New York Stock Exchanges. It was formed in 2003 in a demerger from Western Mining Corporation, and is one of the largest companies on the ASX.
Alumina's only business...
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| x Anglo American |
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Anglo American PLC (LSE: AAL, JSE: ANGLO), (Pink Sheets (OTC)|AAUKY) is a multi-national mining company, founded in South Africa as a mining enterprise but now extending into other areas. Natural resources remains the focus of its operations. Its...
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| x Lonmin |
Lonmin plc (LSE: LMI, JSE: LOLMI), formerly Lonrho plc, is a producer of platinum group metals operating in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
The Company was...
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| x Kennecott Utah Copper |
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Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC), a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in Magna, Utah, USA. Kennecott operates one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the...
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| x Comalco |
Rio Tinto Aluminium (Formerly known as Comalco) is now known as Rio Tinto Alcan after Rio's takeover of Alcan. It was the world's eighth largest aluminium company. It mines and manufactures bauxite, alumina and primary aluminium.
Rio Tinto Aluminium...
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