tin mine

collocation in English

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tin
noun
uk
/tɪn/us
/tɪn/
a chemical element that is a silver-coloured metal, often combined with other metals or used to cover and protect ...
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mine
noun[C]
uk
/maɪn/us
/maɪn/
a hole or system of holes in the ground where substances such as coal, metal, and salt ...
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(Definition oftinandminefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Atinmineis not only a wasting asset.
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When onetinmineclosed, it caused the flooding of the remainder of the tin mines.
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It was the location of a famoustinmine.
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It is said that an attempt to discover with precision, for taxation purposes, the life of, say, atinmine, is scarcely practicable.
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Admittedly, the latter is atinmine, but it reflects what could very easily and, indeed, may well happen so far as concerns coal mines.
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There is no way around that dilemma, but the troubles in thetinminein my constituency go on and on.
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But the proposedtinmineproject was precisely in that area where everybody knew that the denial of human rights was at its worst.
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The land was formerly the world's largest open casttinmine.
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This village had a nearbytinminewhere, in addition to cassiterite, black tourmaline was found.
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The landslide took place in an abandoned open casttinmineclose to the coast.
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The incessant warfare between the two factions broughttinmineproduction to a standstill.
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Traffic was significantly boosted from 1938 when atinminewas opened.
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It investigated thetinmineitself but no uranium mineralisation was found.
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Kamativi is also the name of atinminelocated at the town.
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He purchased the hound and hid it in the mire at the site of an abandonedtinmine.
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In 1965, he was seriously injured while working at atinminewhen a barrel of sulphuric acid exploded.
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With the closure of thetinmine, the population fell from 5,000 to less than 20 families.
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It was important as a wool producing area, and there were also limestone quarries and a smalltinmine.
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It is now a museum and heritage centre left as a living history of a workingtinmine.
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The man who owns atinmine, a rubber plantation, or a sulphur deposit, extracts and sells; and by the proceeds of what he sells he continues his operation.
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It is a formertinmineand now a lake clustered with tiny island that is now a famous spot for fishing.
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A short shallow adit driven westward as part of a larger stockworktinmineexposes in its walls a topaz-tourmaline-quartz rock.
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However, about 2 km from thetinminethe company discovered a uranium mineralisation which was mined from 1950 to 1960, producing about 1,000 tonnes of uranium.
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