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Rio Tinto is ploughing millions of dollars into stopping the poisonous cane toad reaching the Pilbara region of western Australia, where the mining giant has a vast iron ore operation.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Through its mining facilities, the company can earn crypto revenue from a site’s power while building a data center nearby that fits customer needs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Eacon, a Hong Kong-listed company that provides software for autonomous mining trucks, says its battery-electric fleet in China more than doubled this year to 1,800 vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
His rags-to-riches story, from poverty in a Welsh mining town to Hollywood fame, is one that continues to inspire.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
It’s an enormous power line stretching across eleven hundred miles of jungle, connecting hydroelectric dams below Léopoldville to the distant southern mining region of Shaba.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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On Capitol Hill, the Reagan Administration was engaged in some belated fence mending with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Meantime a cough, the herald of consumption, tormented him, and "the slow minings of the hectic fire" within began to manifest themselves more visibly in days and nights of feverish excitement.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831 by Various
He had no genius for the tactics of intrigue; your reconnoiterings, and marchings, and countermarchings, sappings, and minings, assaults, sometimes surrenders, and sometimes repulses.
From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
And the open goings-forth of it, still more the secret minings and mole-courses of it, were into all places.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
Nowhere for me, in these extensive minings and siftings.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
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