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The Bristol Coalfield is a geologically complex coalfield in the west of England. Comprising the coal-bearing rocks arranged around the Coalpit Heath Syncline and Kingsdown Anticline, it extends beneath the eastern parts of the city of Bristol and northwards through southern Gloucestershire. [1]
Prior to the Atlas series, there were dated maps without text or indexes.. 1906 [2] The 1906 map created by Maitland Brown was a major accomplishment to tie in the range of mineral fields and administrative issues regarding mining in the state, when technology had not conquered distances and logistic issues in updating information about discoveries or mines.
Kittilä mine is the biggest gold mine in Europe. Finland has the largest concentration and producer of gold in the European Union. [1] [2] The European mining industry has a long tradition. Although the continent's mining earns for a small share of GDP, it provides a large and significant share of the world-wide production. [3]
Dampier Mining Co Ltd, a subsidiary of BHP, mined iron ore at Koolyanobbing between 1967 and 1983. [5] The town's population peaked at nearly 500 in the early 1980s. [3] Ore was shipped by rail to Kwinana, near Perth, to supply Australian Iron & Steel's (also a BHP subsidiary) blast furnace. The closure of the Kwinana blast furnace in 1982 ...
Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. Coal seams are extracted from a mountain by removing the land, or overburden, above the seams. This process is considered to be safer compared to underground mining because the coal seams are ...
The Warwickshire coalfield extends between Warwick and Tamworth in the English Midlands. [1] It is about 25 miles (40 km) from north to south and its width is around half that distance.
Construction at South Flank began in July 2018, the Mine is already producing ore and is partially complete, once opened it will become the largest processing facility in Western Australia. BHP is the second-largest iron ore mining company in the Pilbara, behind Rio Tinto and ahead of the Fortescue Metals Group . [ 2 ]
Hinterland is a German word meaning the 'land behind' a city, a port, or similar. [1] Its use in English was first documented by the geographer George Chisholm in his Handbook of Commercial Geography (1888). [2]