Open-pit mining

In West Virginia no “extensive mining took place until the mid-1800s, although coal was known to be throughout much of the state.” At that time coal usage in West Virginia was mainly for heating living quarters or for retail markets such as a blacksmiths. The inhabitants of Wheeling, West Virginia used coal to heat their homes in 1810, and the “first steamboat to use coal on the Ohio River. In the beginning, local inhabitants would surface mined the coal, using picks and shovels to dig the coal…

when many of the major coal companies want to fight against miners appealing for benefits and other things that ultimately help these companies save money. The Jackson Kelly law firm is the go-to firm because of their amazing winning percentage in mining law, however the main reason for…

The Gold King Mine was originally discovered in 1887 and has been running on and off up until 1922. The mine was a huge economic resource for the state of Colorado for it shipped 711,1144 tons of gold and silver. Also it provided many jobs for the residents in the area. In 1991 the Sunnyside corporation took over The Gold King Mine and promised to plug the mines and to treat the abandoned mines and creeks. Sunnyside kept to their word but later on the responsibility was transferred to Gold King.…

Landless, Land Entitlement and Collective Violent Resistance to the Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) in the Developing Country: The Case of Anti-Phulbari Coal Mining Movement in Bangladesh Abstract: My proposed research project will explore the role of landless people in forming collective violent resistance to the Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) process in the Phulbari Coal Mining project in Bangladesh, and will demonstrate the necessity to identify…

against the mine owners for the unsafe conditions at the mine, which did not meet essential rules and regulations and of Sernageomin; the government mining agency authorities who intentionally permitted to keep the mine working in an unsafe condition. "The mine owners “could have avoided” the collapse and Sernageomin, had failed to supervise mining operations and enforce its own decisions" (The New York Times, 2011). According to some reports, mine owners and other related company officials…

can lead to patient satisfaction and increase patient safety. Additionally, the manager also played a deaf ear to a request made by one of the workers for filter replacement in the mask used by the miners. Notably, Carlos Pinilla, the manager of the mining company failed to uphold the principle of…

Since the beginning of the coal mining industries in the 1800s, thousands of mines have been created, extracting the precious mineral, and then dumped, empty and hollow. Once industries finished with a certain area, it would be dropped and they would move on, drilling in another location. The act of reclaiming these mines did not come to light until 1977 when the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act was passed by Congress after they saw the disruption in the environment. This act put a…

Just like the girls, working in the mining or glass manufacturing industry, it was as dangerous, or maybe more. Moreover, 18,000 people that work in the coal mines were children., primarily boys (Markham, Lindsey, and Creel 110). In the coal mining industry boys who worked there were referred to “breaker boys” their duties involved picking slates and other trash from the coal before it was…

of places like creeks, mountains, rivers, streams and the ocean. You can get gold not just in America but in most of the countries of the world and not just dug up by hand. There are multiple types of gold mining: hard rock mining, hydraulic mining, and placer mining. Hard rock mining is mining hundred of feet underground in tunnels inside of mountains. Hard rock miners use tunnel boring machines, crusher, and drilling rig. Tunnel boring machine is a machine that consists of a bunch of little…

Open Source Software Projects: A Balance of Trust and Control According to Jones et al. (2005), trust is the single most important driver for the success of virtual teams. However, as a result of Michael Gallivan’s (2001) case study on open source software projects, he now believes that there is another variable to this movement that can be found in control. He presents the McDonaldization theory by identifying four aspects of modern organizations: efficiency, calculability, predictability and…