mining region

collocation in English

meaningsofminingandregion

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mining
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmaɪ.nɪŋ/us
/ˈmaɪ.nɪŋ/
the industry or activity of removing substances such as coal or metal from the ground ...
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region
noun[C]
uk
/ˈriː.dʒən/us
/ˈriː.dʒən/
a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country ...
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(Definition ofminingandregionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmining region

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It is also aminingregion.
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My constituency is a formerminingregionwith a history of two to three centuries of mining.
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The building functioned as a community center in the isolated coalminingregionuntil a fire in 1991, which destroyed the interior.
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The eastern part of the province is a richminingregion, which supplies cobalt, copper, tin, radium, uranium, and diamonds.
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It was located in the booming leadminingregionin an area of early settlement.
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Gllivare is located in a major iron oreminingregion.
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The coalminingregionthus became a typical multilingual society.
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The sisters established a school for children and a night school for adults in the coalminingregion.
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It would eventually become one of six artificial lakes in greaterminingregionas a result of recultivation activities.
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It is an important chromiumminingregion.
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Affected by growing up in a heavy industrial and coalminingregion, their songs mainly focussed on social and ecological problems such as the greenhouse effect.
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While conflicts may arise when new benefits to ownership are discovered (think, for example, of the violence that plagued colonial mining regions), claims tend to be sorted out relatively quickly.
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It would have been even better if the matter could have been settled after 12 months by the mining regions and the solicitors.
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They refused to introduce any special domestic programmes to help coal mining regions during the main pit closure period after 1984.
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