Sentences with phrase «of abandoned mines»

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.

Water pollution from the uncontrolled drainage of abandoned mines is damaging entire watersheds and causing health risks to communities across Russia and the US.

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

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

The project is adjacent to the long - abandoned Mary Kathleen uranium mine some 60kms east of Mt Isa.

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.

'' But if you abandon Me and disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and if you go and worship other gods, then I will uproot the people of Israel from this land of Mine that I have given them.»

(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...

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.»

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

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

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.

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.

An Abandoned Copper Mine Land contaminated by runoff from industrial waste may soon be reclaimed by an unusual army of eco-warriors: metal - eating earthworms.

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.

A look at one uranium mine shows how difficult it will be to clean up the reservation's hundreds of abandoned Cold War - era mines

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.

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.

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).

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 world.

Executive - turned - environmentalist Ian Dunlop says that mining corporations will have to abandon much of their coal to avoid climate and business suicide

On Aug. 5, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers inadvertently breached a wall of loose debris that was holding back a pool of mustard - hued wastewater from the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado.

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

The EPA is now scrambling to mitigate the mess it created when agency workers inadvertently unleashed a pool of wastewater from an abandoned gold mine

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

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.

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

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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.

Acid mine drainage (AMD) refers to the outflow of acidic water from coal or metal mines, often abandoned ones where ore - or coal mining activities have exposed rocks containing the sulphur - bearing mineral pyrite.

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

When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space - station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out.

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.

The old mining town is mostly abandoned except for a brash group of misfits, chief among them Gilly (James Ransone), the troublemaking son of the town's Marshal (John Travolta).

The once - popular mining town is nearly abandoned and controlled by a brash group of misfits, chief among them Gilly (James Ransone, Sinister, Sinister 2), the troublemaking son of the town's Marshal (John Travolta).

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They live in abandoned buildings and in the mines and in a Smoke and Flame Factory, which you will recall from my Little Movie Glossary is a factory - like location of uncertain purpose which generates a lot of smoke and flames.

There's a montage of the group walking against changing backdrops of failed industry — for instance, a row of nuclear power plants and an abandoned mineral mine.