Sentences with phrase «abandoned mines»

It also holds a large number of abandoned mines with adequate rock supplies, he said.

It's an old abandoned mining town that has been taken over by lots of people living in trailer homes, old school buses and tents.

The current Dialogue has helped identify health impacts in communities exposed to environmental risks at abandoned mine sites.

When demand dried up with the end of the era, companies simply abandoned their mines as they were.

Discovered in abandoned mines in England and Wales, these highly evolved superworms devour toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and copper.

Promote implementation of the recommendations for clean up of the Church Rock Uranium facilities and assessments of air impacts from abandoned mines in the Church Rock area.

«Our findings allow the research community insight into the potential human and environmental impact that vast active and abandoned mining operations may pose all across the Andean region,» said Alan Garrido, researcher on the project.

The proposed budget further includes $ 200 million annually over five years for reclamation of abandoned mine lands, linked to job creation strategies.

During hibernation, the body temperatures of bats drop to the cold ambient temperatures of their «hibernacula» (the caves and abandoned mines where the bats hibernate).

Also, by changing litecoin's underlying mining algorithm to the one bitcoin uses, they argue litecoin cash will bring new life to old, abandoned mining equipment in a kind of strange recycling attempt.

I am NOT «all in» on cryptos and abandoning the mining sector entirely... Further, I enjoy learning and I will admit it's pretty cool to learn something new that I previously knew absolutely nothing about.

Like hundreds of other abandoned mines in the Navajo Nation, the United States» largest Indian reservation, it looks as if it might still be in use — tailings, or waste products of uranium processing, are still piled everywhere, and the land isn't fenced off.

Meanwhile, abandoned mines leak out toxic wastewater all over the state.

Yellow waters The Gold King Mine is one of an estimated 23,000 abandoned mines dotting the state of Colorado.

Very high levels of radioactivity from radon gas have been found in abandoned mines used by prospectors in Southwest England.

Udall agreed with President Shirley and representatives of grass - roots groups that the federal government ought to consider imposing a moratorium on new uranium development until abandoned mines are cleaned up, community health studies conducted, and former uranium workers and their families fully compensated for their illnesses and premature deaths.

During the 1880s iron ore prices rose to unprecedented heights, so that it appeared that, if the separator could extract the iron from unusable low - grade ores, then abandoned mines might profitably be placed back in production.

While we were in Mexico we took a day trip to Mineral de Pozos, a neighboring abandoned mining town high up in the mountains.

While on our road trip to Mineral de Pozos, we got to visit some of the town's famous abandoned mines.

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Their reformation pays off when they discover a monster - making machine hidden in an old abandoned mine outside of town.

Faces of miners that lived in a now abandoned mining town grace the walls of a row of houses marked for demolition.

Relics and artifacts found in abandoned mine workings may include equipment such as pumps, cranes, drills, narrow gauge railway tracks, wagons and locomotives.

This number comes from the most comprehensive federal database that we know of — the enhanced Abandoned Mine Lands Inventory System (eAMLIS) maintained by the Office of Surface Mining (OSM).

The program encourages private developers to transform abandoned mines, landfills, Superfund sites and brownfields into something positive.

Once the price of Bitcoin surged, many abandoned mining as individuals and joined mining «pools» in which numerous people add their own computing power to mine the virtual currency and take a slice of the profit.

That's why the committee proposes $ 60 m a year for research into lessening the environmental impacts of coal mining, such as mitigating disturbance of groundwater and surface water systems, minimizing the risk of ground collapse, and reducing the effects of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines.

«There's a lot of abandoned mine sites in the Colorado mountains.»

United States About Blog Come and explore dark, dangerous, abandoned mines where you'll swear you can smell the dank air; hear the rumblings of the old, underground machinery; and feel the miners» presence as they relentlessly chased their dreams of gold and untold fortune.

Buchanen is the only jurisdiction that's close to Campbell's Run, a toxic, long - abandoned mining town where fires still burn belowground decades later, and where the charred body of a recently murdered teenage girl has turned up, stuffed into a gash in the earth's crust.

President Obama also pushed hard to create the Reclaim Act and the Power Initiative, two federal programs designed to reinvest money into coal communities and fund the reclamation of abandoned mine sites.

In abandoned mines in Minnesota and Ontario, researchers have built WIMP detectors designed to pick up the weak response when a dark particle strikes an ordinary atom.

Over the semester, our class found itself deeper in the abandoned mine of Protestant Marian piety, deserted without being fully explored.

Although some records indicate this cabin was built as early as 1870, it was probably built in 1884 or 1885 in Calgary, by William Bruce, out of logs salvaged from an abandoned mine and floated down the Bow River...

Guards at an abandoned mine shaft in South Africa have shot and killed at least four illegal miners, according to reports.

Four bodies have been retrieved from an abandoned mining pit at Kwabeng in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region.

Police proceeded to the scene of the incident, combed the area and found an abandoned mining pit filled with water.

The anti-illegal mining task - force, has rejected claims its men had a hand in the death of some four persons whose remains were retrieved an abandoned mining pit at Kwabeng in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region.

Fly ash is also disposed of in landfills and abandoned mines and quarries, posing a potential risk to people living around those areas.

The Interior Department would see the Abandoned Mine Land grants program eliminated, and the budget «streamlines operations» at the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management.

Steel Wind is one of the first, but President Obama and Congress are pushing to identify thousands of contaminated landfills and abandoned mines that could be repurposed to house wind farms, solar arrays and geothermal power plants.

(CDEX, CDMS, CoGeNT, COUPP and CRESST are just the most notable examples that start with the letter C.) The delicate work of detecting any weak, rare and fleeting interactions of WIMPs with atoms requires isolation and solitude, confining most detectors to caverns, abandoned mines and other outlier subterranean spaces.

To my mind, one of the serious sticking points is the handling of Clause 56, relating to the control of discharges of water from abandoned mines — a hot topic for Thistle Diary.

«It could be an old Kmart,» McIntyre says, «or even an abandoned mine shaft.»

How it works: At times of low energy demand, motors powered by electricity or natural gas compress air and pump it into an underground cavern, abandoned mine or other large confined space.

It continues to burn today, moving through a vast network of abandoned mines that are still littered and lined with coal.