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The Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier, often called the Rhenish mining area, is a lignite mining area or district in the Cologne Bay, on the northwestern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The mining of lignite using the open pit method has had a significant impact on the landscape here and led to the formation of several important industrial sites.
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a state park unit preserving Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California, United States. The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the 1882 landmark case Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company. [2] The mine pit and several Gold Rush-era ...
Argonaut Mining Company: 1893–1942 registered as California Historical Landmark #786. Golden Fleece Tunnel: Westville: Golden Fleece Mining & Milling Co. Iron Mountain Mine: Redding: Kennedy Mine: Jackson: 1886–1942 South of Sutter Gold Mine Locarno Mine
Mining communities of the California Gold Rush (55 P) Pages in category "Mining communities in California" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
The Tagebau Hambach is a large open-pit coal mine (German: Tagebau) in Niederzier and Elsdorf, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite. The mine is on the site of the ancient Hambach Forest, which was purchased by RWE in 1978. The company then cut most of the forest down and cleared it to mine.
Like the California cities ranking among America’s top 10 richest cities, San Carlos is very tech oriented thanks to its proximity to Silicon Valley. According to Zillow, homes in San Carlos ...
The Rand Mine produced more silver than any mine in California. Johannesburg was named by miners who had previously worked in the gold-producing region of South Africa . Containing the city of Johannesburg , South Africa, this region is in the Witwatersrand , and is frequently referred to as "the Rand."
The 38,000-acre Borel fire in Kern County has leveled the tiny, historic mining town of Havilah. "We lost everything — it's all gone," Havilah resident Sean Rains told The Times on Sunday. "This ...