Sentences with phrase «mining town about»

Not exact matches

Brandon Spear knew he had his work cut out for him the first time he visited Rustenburg, a mining town in northern South Africa that has about 100,000 residents and is surrounded by free - roaming lions and elephants.

For example, this week the Indonesian President is in town for G20 talking to Gordon Brown and Cameron, about «investment»... in West Papua police brutality is routine, across Indonesia mines and palm oil for biofuel are displacing local people and leading to environmental destruction... London, West Papua, its all part of the same big process.

Any film that can make a story about a struggling 19th - century mining town look this sensual must be doing something right.»

The medical ones are most visible, but there is fear about testifying against the mine — its fate determines the fate of the town.

Shot in the real coal town of Beckley, W.V., Colangelo's film takes place in the aftermath of a fatal mining accident that has left 10 miners dead and a lot of people speculating about who's to blame for the tragedy.

Leaving the horses behind, Chris Cooper takes a part in October Sky, a story about students whose love of rockets gives them the boost they need to pursue a different future than what they'll find in their mining town.

with Tara Fitzgerald (1.4 mb) «A Bit Surprised» with Mark Herman (0.7 mb) «Hello WWW» with Pete Postlethwaite (0.3 mb) «Not Embarrassed» with Pete Postlethwaite (0.8 mb) «I'm Here in Utah» with Stephen Tompkinson (0.5 mb) «Musical Experience» with Stephen Tompkinson (1.5 mb) Slides Using a delightful amalgamation of music, class struggle, and a Yorkshire mining town, British directon Mark Herman has combined seemingly disparate elements to create a charming, extremely touching drama about a somewhat alien mi ieu.A description of the plot is wholly inadequate to convey the intelligence, emotional powet and spirit of Brassed Off.

But you are right, the sound and feeling is truly epic — I've experienced this myself on an old BMW a friend of mine used to have; the whole town knew we were out and about.

But this isn't the genteel mining towns most Christian authors write about, where basically everyone... Continue reading →

But this isn't the genteel mining towns most Christian authors write about, where basically everyone is nice (except the evildoer), and the seedier parts of frontier life are kept to the side.

Butte is an old mining town, tucked away in the southwest corner of Montana with a population of about 34,000.

Interested to learn more about the town's mining history, and to explore its traditional villages and deserted mining hamlets, we signed up for a tour (on which we were the only tourists) of the local area through Huancavelica's only travel agent — its Tourist Information office.

We will have things like fishing, mining, and gardening, but those are almost secondary, or complementary, to the nature of exploring the world, forming relationships with townsfolk, and learning about the mysteries of the town.

Now that it's noon you can either head into the local mines to help rid them of some nasty slimes and critters, hopefully finding some neat treasure while you do, or you can take a leisurely stroll about town, foraging while you do, looking for rare plants and fruits or discovering lost relics from the towns ancient past that you can donate to the local museum.

In the coal - mining town of Vorkuta, about 40 percent of buildings have become deformed from changes in the ground.

Photo: GM Making Sure the Chevy Volt is Safe for First Responders A friend of mine works part - time as a firefighter in a small town, and one of the things that he's often talking about is how dangerous airbags can be if you are a first responder.

Green Education: Learning by Installing Solar Panels and a Wind Turbine Elliot Lake, Ontario, is a small mining town of about 12,000.

He joined the Canadian Navy at 17, and when he returned to his small town in Northern Saskatchewan, «my older brothers had been loggers and miners so I heard from them about logging and mining» and so, until law school, he worked in those jobs with them.

Bloomberg Businessweek Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America Speaking of Amazon: While everyone is worried about Jeff Bezos killing brick - and - mortar stores, dollar stores — specifically the Dollar General — has been quietly growing bigger and bigger in low - income, rural towns.

Breckenridge, Colorado, USA About Blog «Escape to Breckenridge Ski Resort, World - class skiing and riding and an authentic mining town.

Broun talked about her own family's experience in Roeburn in Western Australia: «a fairly typical regional town — large proportion of Aboriginal people, high levels of health problems and unemployment», despite a mining boom that has lasted several decades.

The Burrup Peninsula is an area of land near the mining towns of Dampier and Karratha, about 1,300 km north of Perth.

If you're in New Hartford, N.Y., and want information about cruising the nearby Erie Canal, touring a local brewery, or exploring an old diamond mine, the chamber of commerce in town won't be of much help.