British diplomats who last month visited Norilsk, an isolated northern mining town, were asked for food aid.
What had once been a mining town with about 17, 000 inhabitants had now dwindled to barely 3, 000 residents.
Johannesburg's early days as a gold-mining town, and the ensuing mass urbanisation, left an acrid legacy in the form of Apartheid.
Zimbabwe was reported to have lost about 80 soldiers on March 15th at Kabinda, near Mbuji-Mayi, a diamond-mining town.
The Louvre Lens museum only opened in the former mining town in December.
It was an old Mid-western coal-mining town, where there was no more mining, and very few other places to work.
Half a century ago Yubari, on the northern island of Hokkaido, was a coal-mining town with more than 100, 000 people.
Nearly 500km south is the diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, which was abandoned in 1956 and is slowly being reclaimed by the sands.
Ethnic-Albanians complain that their people have been expelled without redress from the northern, Serb-dominated part of the mining town of Mitrovica.
Thousands of people have attended a lavish party to celebrate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's 89th birthday in the mining town of Bindura.
The Dome landed on Greenwich, just as the misguided Earth Centre had no obvious connection with Doncaster, a run-down mining town nearby.
The answer lies in the intricacies of Cambodia's internal politics and in a dusty mining town near the northwestern border with Thailand.
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Glamorous Aspen has long since left behind its humble mining town roots, and housing prices reflect the influx of CEOs, Hollywood stars and wealthy jetsetters.
Markel describes a dramatic example in the mining town of Gunnison, Colorado.
Together these mountains surround the old mining town of Park City, Utah, which every January is also home to the Sundance Film Festival.
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Rebels in Zaire captured the diamond mining town of Mbuji-Mayi and Lubumbashi, Zaire's second city, before giving President Mobutu three days to step down.
Old Pops grew up in an old Arizona mining town on the Mexican border where brothels were common and penicillin had not yet been invented.
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In Scranton, a sooty mining town, she was miserable when the locomotives were fitted with iron skirts that hid how the wheels and pistons moved.
His most recent trip took him from his home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, to Desmaraisville, a mining town near Bachelor Lake in northern Quebec.
Three families will be selected to appear in the Coal House series, which will send people back in time to taste life in a 1927 south Wales mining town.
The city's drinking culture dates back to its history as a major mining town in the late 1800s, when it attracted boatloads of Europeans seeking better opportunities and a new life.
In the latest accident, the aircraft, a Fokker 50 owned by local company CAA, was flying in from the central mining town of Lodja when it came down in heavy rainfall, AFP reports.
The inhabitants of Taltal, for instance, a small fishing and mining town in northern Chile, on Independence Day last month bedecked the town not with the traditional national standard but with black flags, in mourning for lost jobs.
In 1889 Aspen, Colorado was a long way from being a glitzy ski destination, but it was a booming silver mining town, and this newfound wealth led to The Hotel Jerome, built to rival the world's finest lodgings.
The one place, apart from Pristina, where Serbs have remained in significant numbers is the mining town of Mitrovica, part of the French sector in the north, where the Ibar river has become the dividing line in an ugly stand-off.
Her case is comfortably trumped by the experiences of a young London couple who thought they were on their way to Sydney, Australia, when they had in fact booked tickets to a former mining town in the north-east of Canada, also called Sydney.
New director awards went to Canada's Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais for his dark comedy, Whitewash about a man trying to survive a harsh Canadian winter, and American Sean Dunne for Oxyana, set in a rural coal mining town riddled with an addiction to pain relief medication.
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For more than three decades, movie lovers have come to this former mining town almost 9, 000 feet up in the Rockies for refresher courses in where the medium has been (neglected or downright unknown classics from the silent and sound eras alike) as well as where it's at.
But there had been no true words for the act then: rape was what occurred when some maniac jumped on you out of a bush, not when your formal-dance date drove you to a side road in the mangy twice-cut forest surrounding a tin-pot mining town and told you to drink up like a good girl and then took you apart, layer by torn layer.
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