Sentences with phrase «mining towns»

From towering rainforests, fertile plains and cascading waterfalls to crashing surf beaches, coastal rock formations and historic gold mining towns — at every turn of the road you'll see another magnificent view.

Considering many of these mystical mining towns have few avenues in or out, you'll want transportation just in case a quick getaway is in order.

We are also ideally placed for day trips to the Kruger National Park, the Gold mining towns of Kaapsche Hoop and Pilgrims Rest.

Bonrook Country Stay is located close to Pine Creek, and is a great base from which to visit heritage listed national parks with vast floodplains and billabongs teeming with wildlife, sandstone escarpments and cascading waterfalls, or to outback gold mining towns seeped in pioneer history.

Venture from there to explore the gem fields around Anakie, the fertile agricultural region of Emerald and on to the coal mining towns of Dysart, Moranbah and Middlemount.

Day trips within reach, are the Gold mining towns of Kaapsche Hoop, Baberton and Pilgrims Rest.

Founded in 1546, following the discovery of mineral deposits, Zacatecas was one of the most important mining towns of New Spain.

There are peaceful, timeless mountain villages like Vilcabamba and picturesque former gold - mining towns such as Zaruma that offer a perfect antidote to the vertiginous rush of modern - day life.

Surrounded by a rich hinterland of tropical rainforests and waterfalls, the town of Townsville is in the heart of historic gold mining towns, the outback, islands, and of course, the Great Barrier Reef.

Loop around lush Far North Queensland from Cairns, gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, up to Cooktown, rich with indigenous and early European history and down to Townsville, to explore ancient rainforests, fruit plantations, gold mining towns and secluded hideaways along the way.

Historical gold - mining towns, exhilarating gorge swings and a view from God's Window await visitors who venture out into the region beyond the renowned national park....

Day 8 Karijini — Meekatharra Today we leave Karijini and the Hamersley Ranges as we travel south past the mining towns of Newman and Meekatharra, passing through sheep and cattle stations enroute to our last night at Meekatharra.

An eclectic mix of waterfalls, old mining towns, adventure hotspots and sitting alongside the famous Kruger Park, Mpumalanga province is an intriguing and varied area to visit.

The prize money that could be generated through racing also incentivized the raising of dogs and this became a relatively common pastime in the gold - mining towns as people strove to breed ever - faster dogs.

It has a population of roughly 24,000 residents and also was known for being one of the larger mining towns in the mid-20th century.

Home to Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona is known for its copper - mining towns, 11 species of rattlesnakes, and designated Native American lands.

This led to the establishment of multiple coal - mining towns nearby which eventually combined to form the greater Hazleton metropolitan area.

It was a poem called «Dickens in Camp,» suggesting that to the English oaks by Dickens» grave, they should also add a spray of western pine for his fans in the lost frontier mining towns of California...

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.

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

It's hard to ignore the landscape that shaped the people, or the history those people made — gold rushes, the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, mining towns and ranch wars and gunfighters — when you're traversing the Western United States mile by mile.

They then complete a series of focused tasks based on a bespoke resource pack to develop an understanding of both opportunities and challenges based around a fly - in - fly - out mining industry including, remoteness, inaccessibility and climate as well as the inevitable social problems that come with migrant based mining towns.

Shot on location in real West Virginia coal - mining towns, the film does carry the American Gothic grit you expect to see in such places.

Unlike most boom - era mining towns, Coloma was known for its library and school, not its bars and brothels.

«Some mining towns were well known for raucous behaviour, prostitution, wild times,» Berger says.

From Paranal, it is a 6 - hour drive east through mining towns and bleak desert landscapes, where the only sign of colour comes from shrines honouring people killed on the roads.

Politics: The former coal mining towns here all tend to vote Labour, but the more Conservative rural sections of the seat balance this out to an extent, making the seat a marginal.

They've also won council seats in the other local ex mining towns of Cannock and Burntwood.

Former mining towns at the sharp end of industrial decline.

Grylls seeks to justify his attempt to disturb this bedrock with allegations that the miners have failed to fulfil obligations of their individual state agreements that require them to invest in mining towns.

This led to the establishment of multiple coal - mining towns nearby which eventually combined to form the greater Hazleton metropolitan area.

The town of Buckskin Joe in Colorado was built with structures from old mining towns, and became the setting for many Hollywood westerns.

A $ 70 million property development planned for the Pilbara mining town of Newman has brought together a couple of unlikely bedfellows and, in the process, created uncertainty for some existing retaile

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.

The gold mining town of Bodie once had a population of 10,000 people.

Silver City, Idaho, is a historic mining town that feels as though it has been frozen in time.

It was chartered as a city in 1894 and rose to prominence as a coal - mining town after the discovery of anthracite coal in Wyoming Valley.

FROM THE 1970s until the start of this century, Fort McMurray was a two - mine town.

The Maricunga salar is next to highway 31, linking Chile to Argentina, it lies 170 km from the mining town of Copiapo, has access to power, water and a port and is on «the right side of the Andes border», Holland explains.

Grew up tiny coal mine town with spectacular park & pool.learn to swim and dive age 5.

Planet Hollywood Founder Robert Earl was approached by Disney executives with the concept of Disney Springs, inspired by a turn - of - the - century Florida mining town.

The long - ago mining town is now a thriving ski resort, complete with upscale accommodations and a bevy of fantastic restaurants.

The mining town's mineral - rich water gave the local wheat beer a salinic edge, supplying the sour ale with a sharpness that played well with its twangy, lemony profile.

The trail angles down into Volcano Canyon and then breaks out into the head of the wide main street of Forest - hill, another mining town that went bust.

Mayasich, born in the mining town of Eveleth in 1933, grew up to be a rangy, rawboned kid (six feet, 180 pounds) who was a natural at every sport he tried.

She married Israel in 1912 and, by the time Melvin was born, Julius was well established in the dry goods business in Johns, Ala., a small mining town 30 miles southwest of Birmingham.

Lackey is 35 years old, and his most recent residence was Williamson, W. Va., a small coal - mining town, where he worked for the Federal Government on a disaster - relief team.

He's not got undue loyalty to any one club, having come an awful long way from an obscure little mining town in Chile.

I used to live in a mining town.

The women's action is said to have been influenced by recent robbery attacks in the area with a recent one been a day before as the people in the mining town have been subjected to some serious robbery attacks.