mining town

collocation in English

meaningsofminingandtown

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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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town
noun
uk
/taʊn/us
/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition ofminingandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Everyone knows the economic circumstances of aminingtown.
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I was brought up in aminingtownwhere poverty was taken for granted.
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It may be that my information and my experience can be multiplied by everyminingtownand village in this country.
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It is a new town of high quality—a formerminingtownthat now has a varied manufacturing base.
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This is the picture in aminingtownwhere depopulation is taking place and where so much depends on the colliery workings.
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If one goes abroad to aminingtown, it is not known as a city or a town: it is called a mining camp.
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It is changed from being aminingtownalmost entirely, to almost entirely not aminingtown.
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Market towns that have no market may start to struggle, and a coalminingtownthat no longer has a coal mine will certainly start to struggle.
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Chesterfield was an engineering andminingtownas well as a market town.
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They all had to live with grandmother—14 people in a one-up, one-down terraced house in aminingtown.
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The town started as aminingtownfor gold and silver.
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Just 22 years later, it became a free royalminingtown.
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It rose to prominence in the 1870s as a goldminingtown.
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Crestone was a smallminingtown, but little paying ore was discovered.
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It was founded in the 1860s as aminingtown.
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In the early 1870s, aminingtownfollowed.
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It was formerly a coalminingtownbut today only one open-cast mine remains.
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Golden was aminingtownwhich was founded around 1887.
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The area is a historical goldminingtownand is now mostly deserted.
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Tsumeb, since its founding, has been primarily aminingtown.
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