Sentences with phrase «in abandoned mines»

39 environmental groups have drafted a letter asking the Obama administration to «reject a pending federal rule that will make it easier to dispose of coal combustion waste from power plants in abandoned mines» and tighten rules regarding coal ash disposal.

This week at Fast Company, we looked at BP's move into next - generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDel's hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the world's tallest green building.

Estimating that it costs $ 100 per tonne to produce the biocoal and permanently sequester the stuff in abandoned mines or carbon landfills, a mere one trillion dollars per year suffices for the 8.5 GtC being produced by human activities recently.

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

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

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.

A mysterious mummy that was found in an abandoned mining town in the Atacama Desert of Chile looked like an alien skeleton.

Without much material or throughline, the movie devolves into a succession of scenes in which the scream queen Vivian runs from one imperilment to the next; the proceedings culminate in abandoned mine tunnel that serves primarily as a means for obscuring the action.

As the movie progresses, she ends up looking like a hero to the world, because she saves a deaf girl who's trapped in an abandoned mine.

When the badly decomposed body of thirteen - year - old Katie Pine is found in an abandoned mine shaft, John Cardinal is vindicated.

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

Amnesia is a spiritual successor of the Penumbra game series, a sullen zombie horror in an abandoned mine somewhere in the North of Greenland.

Her images convey a sense of timelessness, as though they could depict scenes from a brothel in an abandoned mining town as readily as an artist's loft in Brooklyn, and often feature a thick, red X loosely painted over the composition.

(In situ project of a symbolic protest in an abandoned mine where a chorus executes a composition on a baroque tone)(Video, variable dimensions, video still)

Part of the work helped design an innovative structure to allow large and small bats to enter their hibernaculum in an abandoned mine, while keeping humans out.

While Minecraft might be devoid of a back story, we do see the evidence of some sort of past civilization in the abandoned mine shafts, strongholds, and vanilla dungeons and the more sophisticated dungeons created by MCDungeons fit right into the general feel.

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For a mine project like Suncor's Fort Hills, with about 25 per cent of construction already completed, the forward - looking decision would imply a return on the balance of capital invested of 12.5 per cent — now, the project returns overall might be lower than that, but when you're considering a decision to abandon a partially built mine, you're not likely to get much of a return on they money you've already invested in it if you don't continue building.

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.

(A friend of mine, a first - rate psychologist, who is a subject of graphic automatism, tells me that the appearance of independent actuation in the movements of his arm, when he writes automatically, is so distinct that it obliges him to abandon a psychophysical theory which he had previously believed in, the theory, namely, that we have no feeling of the discharge downwards of our voluntary motor - centres.

Flora Springs Winery in Napa has a lineup of Halloween wines, which ties into the winery's history, located where there had been an abandoned ghost mine.

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...

Highlights for us were climbing on the giant tires at the abandoned Iron Ore Mine in Marmora, swimming in the sandbar in Crowe Lake, and exploring at the Petroglyphs Provincial Park.

If the mining sector is abandoned because money is coming in through the increase in price and output of oil, there will continue to be problems.»

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

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

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

The EPA has also identified 15 abandoned hardrock mines, located mostly in the West, where it has rated wind - energy potential to be excellent, outstanding or superb, said Shahid Mahmud, co-chairman of the federal agency's national mining team.

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.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently embroiled in a massive effort to assess 520 open abandoned uranium mines all over the vast reservation.

That is what draws researchers into the bowels of an abandoned Minnesota iron mine, working long shifts in what is surely one of the most tedious, yet potentially rewarding, jobs in all of physics.

And 4,850 feet underground, in an abandoned South Dakota gold mine, the enormous Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter detector geared up to collect the definitive data on the long - sought dark particles.

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 sealeIn 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 sealein an abandoned strip mine used as a dump near the Odd Fellows Cemetery, not realizing that the mine had not been properly sealed.

And in Addison, W. Va., land scarred by an old mine and abandoned railroads will be scoured and transformed into a museum and tourism center.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the worlIn September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the worlin the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the worlin old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the worlin various other geologic formations around the world.

That act established funding for states to clean up long - abandoned mines, like the Gold King (which closed in the 1920s).

A plan to convert an abandoned gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota into the world's largest underground laboratory remains afloat, but just barely.

Vaz contends that the current government is demarcating very little land for indigenous groups and has largely abandoned its responsibilities to them, placing their lives in danger, primarily because it «sees the Indians as hampering the agricultural business, hampering the expansion of mining, and hampering the extraction of natural resources.»

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.

The Gilt Edge Mine in South Dakota was a gold mine that an insolvent company abandoned in the late 1990s, leaving behind 150 million gallons of acidic heavy - metal - laden water, as well as millions of cubic yards of acid - generating tailiMine in South Dakota was a gold mine that an insolvent company abandoned in the late 1990s, leaving behind 150 million gallons of acidic heavy - metal - laden water, as well as millions of cubic yards of acid - generating tailimine that an insolvent company abandoned in the late 1990s, leaving behind 150 million gallons of acidic heavy - metal - laden water, as well as millions of cubic yards of acid - generating tailings.

University of Chicago cosmologist Juan Collar believes his group may have spotted a dark matter signal in their detector inside an abandoned mine in Soudan, Minnesota.

A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology has identified new toxic metalloid - reducing bacteria in highly polluted abandoned gold mine tailings in Manitoba's Nopiming Provincial Park.

Deep inside an abandoned iron mine in northern Minnesota, physicists may have spotted the clearest signal yet of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that is thought to make up 90 per cent of the mass of the universe.

And Paul Robinson continued, and expanded on, his work in the Russian Far East (page 4), which resembles how we assist New Mexico communities to advocate for cleaning up wastes from abandoned mines.

(Again) to High - Level Waste at WIPP; Reclaiming the Land: History of Uranium Mill Tailings Clean - up; Mitchell Capitan & Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining Take Their Message to the International Stage; Karamken: An Abandoned Gold Facility Shows Need for Reclamation in Russia; Harris Arthur is SRIC's New Navajo Community Liason

These are the abandoned mines, mills and waste piles in Zakamensk Rayon of Buryatia, which are left over from the Soviet - era Dzhidinski Tungsten - Molybdenum Production Kombina.

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.

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

«Uranium in Soil, Mine Waste and Spring Water near Abandoned Uranium Mines, Tachee / Blue Gap and Black Mesa Chapters, Navajo Nation, Arizona,» Contributors: Chris Shuey and Wm. Paul Robinson; Principal authors: Sadie Bill, Adrian Brearley, Jose Manuel Cerrato, and Abdul - Mehdi Ali.

Program Purpose: The Mine Water Control Dialogue addresses shared concerns in Russia and the USA for water pollution from the uncontrolled drainage of abandoned mines that is damaging watersheds and causing health risks.

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.