Sentences with phrase «abandoned mines used»

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

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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.

In 1962 residents of this small mining town burned trash in an abandoned strip mine used as a dump near the Odd Fellows Cemetery, not realizing that the mine had not been properly sealed.

A facility proposed for Norton, Ohio, would use an abandoned limestone mine.

Meanwhile, Jill Banfield of the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues used similar sequencing methods to stitch together the genomes of microbes in highly acidic water from an abandoned California gold mine.

Some students have a view of the polluted coastline where their parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents used to make a living, the abandoned mining equipment that once tied their families» livelihoods to the company store, or the vast clear - cut space that was once a forest amid rolling hills.

Mankind explores space using an ancient technology found in an abandoned alien ore mine on Mars.

That's what Northland Power wants to do in Marmora, Ontario, on the site of an abandoned open - pit iron ore mine that used to be exploited by Bethlehem Steel.

In many areas of the country, electricity can be stored by using it to compress air, which is injected underground into depleted gas reservoirs, abandoned mines, or salt caverns.

BHP Minerals to facilitate a round table on proposals to use the abandoned Island Copper mine as a landfill site (1993 - 94);

Developers of a solar farm atop a former Kentucky coal mining site hope their work will inspire similar projects — putting abandoned land to use and helping revive the Appalachian economy.

A far better approach would be to let the free market handle this problem: Users who do not want their data harvested and used to target them for either advertising or manipulative politics should consider abandoning the platforms that practice that data - mining.