This was rejected by the local coal companies who feared that the construction of the piers on the river bed would disturb the shallow mine workings below, which already suffered from flooding.
12.
A few shops with gaudy signs still buy diamonds panned from streams or dug from shallow mines outside the city, but most of the Lebanese and Indian dealers left after the last battle.
13.
In a single hour on one afternoon, nine miners came in to Mahamudi's shop looking to sell gold they had dug out of shallow mines along the banks of rivers deep in the bush.
14.
Two hundred years earlier, Farrer may well have seen a different sight : St Helens was scarred and pitted by shallow mining operations, often quickly abandoned, left to flood and exceedingly prone to collapse.
15.
She repeated this operation 1 to 12 November, sweeping 69 more mines; then became reference ship for a unit of three Japanese Coastal Defense ships sweeping shallow mines line southeast of Tsushima until 16 November 1945.
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Indeed, whilst evidence is difficult to find following centuries of subsequent mining work, it is more than likely that a certain amount of shallow mining was undertaken by the Romans the Roman road of Sarn Helen passed through the forest.
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:: * From page 537 of the source : Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System ( TAPS ) destroyed large areas of riparian shrub in the Atigun and Sagavanirktok river valleys, mostly through shallow mining of vegetated river bars for gravel.
18.
During the 17th century, shallow mine workings began to develop in the area and in 1759 a turnpike was erected in the Catshill area . although this is demonstrably false as Turpin was executed in 1739, twenty years before the turnpike's construction.
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In 1872 he wrote an article together with Robert H . Scott F . R . S ., Director of the Meteorological Office entitled'On the connection between colliery explosions and the weather in 1872'showing there was more likelihood of explosions in dry weather than wet in shallow mines.
