In some parts of Mindanao, people took to gold panning as floodwaters swept a mining area in Mawab town.
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They kill and destroy, looting where they can, largely in the Koidu diamond-mining area in the east of the country.
Those six licences expired between March 2006 and March 2007, after which the district government began offering the mining area to other firms.
Seleka - an alliance of three rebel groups - took Bambari last Sunday having earlier seized the rich diamond mining area around Bria.
Her first-person narrator, Katniss Everdeen, who hails from a shabby coal-mining area, is a tough, resourceful girl, a huntress who protects her family.
Graham Morgan, chairman of Cinderford Regeneration Board, said some of the buildings left in the former coal mining area had "not been touched" since the mid-1960s.
On Sunday, the rebels captured the northern city of Bambari, the third largest in the country, having earlier seized the rich diamond mining area around Bria.
Isolated on the western edge of Arizona, Quartzsite was once a mining area and way station for travelers, later becoming popular with retirees for its mild winters.
Recent events in Donetsk, the coal-mining area in the east that is a hotbed of anti-Kuchma feeling and happens also to be the country's most populous region, have been particularly murky.
Mr. SAWLIS: With them being strong flyers, I've got a huge bullet to try and figure out exactly is it coming from this particular mining area or not or this drilling area or not.
Blair's supporters in his North-East of England constituency, battling crippling levels of unemployment in a former mining area, needed the guarantee of a decent home for their families at a reasonable rent that council housing provided.
Mining the area between various fields will allow you to carve out a unique career path, one that is custom fit to your own interests and inclinations.
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Freeport Indonesia said in February that it expected output from the Grasberg mine to rise 30% this year, after falling around 40% last year due to strikes and its mining an area with lower mineral content.
The Nusantara Group, a conglomerate controlled by Prabowo Subianto, a politician, had previously controlled the mining in that area.
The court gave the local village councils in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts three months to decide whether they wanted mining in their area.
He found high levels of poisonous heavy metals in the water and believed there was a direct connection between incidences of cancer and mining in the area.
Pacific Rim acquired a firm that already had an exploration permit, a sort of phase-one permit in the mining world that allows companies to explore an area and determine whether mining would make sense there.
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While mining the millions of asteroids around Earth opens up a new area for the mining industry, questions arise regarding staking claims and owning property, or asteroids in this case, in space.
The Skouries project is the latest in a complex of mining facilities in the area.
For many hundreds of families in the area, mining was central to their lives and bound communities together.
Fighting between two Arab tribes over land and mining rights in the area this year has killed hundreds of people.
Strateco, Abitex, Western troy and Eastmain Resources are all mining companies in the area that will benefit from the governments infrastructure plan.
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Ecuador, a member of the Bolivarian Alliance, is one of the largest recipients of Chinese investment, particularly in the area of mining and oil.
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As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, Tuba City experienced a bit of prosperity during a uranium mining boom in the area.
It used to be a massive area for mining - now there's nothing and there are generations of the same families out of work.
Hellas Gold holds mining licenses for an area covering 317 square kilometers (122 square miles) with proven and probable reserves of lead, zinc, silver, gold and copper.
Camborne's Trevithick Day is an annual celebration of the heritage and mining heritage of the area, with the focus on its famous son Richard Trevithick, the pioneer of high pressure steam power.
The property is the former home of the Fitzwilliam coal mining family but had fallen into a state of structural disrepair, partly because of the number of mining shafts in the area.
This does not mean that Iran will not be able to complete a nuclear program, but civilian technologies including those where Bolivia seeks assistance are highly undeveloped except perhaps in the area of mining.
Mining companies had filed thousands of claims in recent years, but it is unlikely that any of the 3, 500 mining claims in the area will receive federal permits when the 20-year ban goes into effect.
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