Violent strikes in the platinum and gold industry claimed more than 50 lives last year, including 34 striking miners at a nearby platinum mine run by Lonmin.
Close friends of mine who run a child play-area encountered the same experience in their expansion-planning.
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The mine is run by a subsidiary of Berkshire's MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.
As the mine was being run illegally, it is unclear how many were in the mine at the time of the incident.
Yes, the run-ups on some industry stocks make them pricey: Canada's Cameco, which does everything from mine uranium to run plants, trades at 68 times trailing earnings.
Yes, the run-ups on some industry stocks make them pricey: Canada's Cameco, which does everything from mine uranium to run plants, trades at 60 times trailing earnings.
The nearby Sikalima stream is another cause of friction between the Chinese-run mine and the cattle-herding community in the area, who rely on it as a source of drinking water.
The mine at Cilybebyll has been run off and on for five decades.
With the latest technology, says Cho, the bank can measure the profitability of every branch employee and customer, mine its customer database and run sophisticated risk-management and credit-analysis programs.
They are encouraging drillers to use tainted coal mine water to hydraulically fracture gas wells in the Marcellus Shale formation, with the twin goals of diverting pollution from streams and rivers that now run orange with mine drainage and reducing the drillers' reliance on fresh sources of water.
In protest the United Mine Workers of America struck at mines run by Blankenship.
But if you run the whole process, from mine onwards, then that makes your bauxite end of the process worth less.
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Tom West, who represents Norse in the challenge to Dryden's zoning law, said he'll argue that the Frew Run case, which involved a gravel mine, doesn't apply because the state mining law is fundamentally different from the oil and gas statutes.
The App Center is targeted at companies like mine: small businesses looking for better software to run their business, particularly in the cloud.
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This week, Xstrata, another big mining firm, suspended operations at a nickel mine in the Dominican Republic while converting its power supply to run on coal, rather than more expensive oil.
She said the huge Marange diamond fields of eastern Zimbabwe are operated by military-run syndicates who beat or kill miners who don't mine for them or pay bribes.
In 1993, the government allowed private companies to mine for coal but only for captive use, as production from state-run companies was unable to meet domestic demand.
The Babao mine in the city of Baishan in the north-east of the country is run by the state-owned Tonghua Mining Group.
Thieves who run networks of hijacked PCs are increasingly using these machines to create or "mine" the coins.
Mr Golborne, a former manager at a retail company who spent weeks at the mine overseeing the operation, has become a national hero, prompting speculation that he may run for president in 2014.
Indeed, it points to such laudable projects such as a low-cost, wind-powered land mine detonator -- not exactly the kind of thing one would pick up on the next Target run (even on sale).
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