Journal articles: 'Mining town'

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Marley, Ben. "Mining Away the Company-town." Capitalism Nature Socialism 25, no. 3 (July 3, 2014): 117–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2014.940147.

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Heder, Arkadiusz. "Exogenous and endogenous functions of mining towns of the Silesian voivodeship, Poland." Environmental & Socio-economic Studies 1, no. 2 (June 1, 2013): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/environ-2015-0012.

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Abstract Towns are of particular interest to geography which examines them in various objective and theoretical aspects. The concept of function is associated with the role which a particular town plays in the area, and this function is the entirety of socio-economic activity carried out in the town. The concept of the economic base of towns, which is used in this paper, distinguishes two groups of town inhabitants, namely such whose work directly contributes to the development of the town, the so-called primary builders (exogenous), and secondary builders (endogenous) who support the first group. This article presents the results of the study of changes in the function of 30 towns in the Silesian voivodeship in which coal mining is still carried out or has ended (18 mining towns and 12 post-mining towns). These towns have different sizes: small ones (up to 20,000 inhabitants; n=6), medium (20 to 100 thousand inhabitants; n=15), and large (with population of over 100,000 inhabitants; n=9). The study was conducted with the use of the indirect measurement of economic base method based on the location ratio, but in a modified form - i.e. the employee surplus rate. The analysis of functional changes in the mining towns of the Silesian voivodeship was performed in five aspects, in relation to: 1) the opening of the economy indicator, with the use of data concerning employment in the exogenous and endogenous group; 2) the employee surplus rate, determining the functional type of towns according to the dominant PKD [Polish Classification of Business Activities] section on the basis of the exogenous group; 3) the structure of exogenous functions of towns; 4) change of the exogenous function of towns; 5) the employee surplus rate, determining the share of section C (mining) in the exogenous function of towns. The analysis showed that in the period of 1996-2009 there has been a change in the functional type, from industrial to service type, in 8 towns; however, mining is still the primary branch of business activity in 11 towns studied, especially in small ones. Today, many service-based towns specialise in trade (n=7), and a small group of towns specialises in non-market services (n=4), which shows that the process of changes in this respect is still ongoing and the towns studied cannot be regarded as towns having a substantial share of higher-order services.

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Krzysztofik, Robert, Iwona Kantor-Pietraga, and Franciszek Kłosowski. "Between Industrialism and Postindustrialism—the Case of Small Towns in a Large Urban Region: The Katowice Conurbation, Poland." Urban Science 3, no. 3 (July 12, 2019): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci3030068.

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The socio-economic transformation of (post)mining towns takes different forms and follows varied pathways. This obvious fact acquires a different significance in a region that is a polycentric urban conurbation whose growth was based on coal mining and industry. Particularly as concerns small towns, which are a minority in it in terms of numbers. This paper attempts to present the issue based on the cases of two small towns, Lędziny and Radzionków, located in the Katowice conurbation in southern Poland. While having similar mining origins, the towns currently represent two radically different paths of economic development. Both mentioned towns are developing relatively well. However, certain threats to their growth are also revealed: social functional, environmental and even political. A closer inspection of both is important in that the two small towns are examples of two extremities in the region, between which other types of towns undergoing socio-economic transformation are situated. The selected examples also indicate that a small (post)mining town does not necessarily have to be ‘the place that don’t matter’. Additionally, an important conclusion is that despite many objective barriers, a small town in a mining region can follow a line of development based on the industry 4.0 concept.

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Zhu, Xiao Lin, Juan Liu, and Hong Lei Ju. "History’s Continuity and Regeneration of Fangzi, a Modern Town along Jiaoji Railway." Advanced Materials Research 317-319 (August 2011): 2310–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.317-319.2310.

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Fangzi, a century town, born because of Jiaoji Railway , still retains the old style, showing unique town layout and the historical and cultural landscape as a modern industrial town along the Jiaoji Railway, preserved basic integrity of the modern German-style architecture. In recent years, as urban development, adjustment planning of urban industrial layout, Fangzi, as the representative of industrial and mining town is facing a crucial decision. This paper through the understanding of the process of formation and development of Fangzi, urban pattern and architectural style, from the angle of science, history, art, culture to made the value research, and finally to identify strategies to protect and re-use, in the meantime, provide reference for the same type towns.

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Artukhova, Natalya, Irina Roshchina, Galina Kalyanova, and Mikhail Katz. "A Concept Model of Mining Monotowns Sustainable Development." E3S Web of Conferences 41 (2018): 04008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184104008.

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This paper covers peculiarities and problems of monoindustrial mining towns in terms of sustainability and safety exemplified by one of territories in Russia. The work takes into account results of various studies in sustainability of natural resource driven economies from different countries. The sustainability issues of resource-driven monoindustrial territories are typical for all developing economies of such kind. Therefore, approaches already used in other countries can be appliedin solving such problems. The paper analyses differences in sustainability issues of monoindustrial and polyindustrial economies, especially those caused by the substantial impact of a town-forming enterprise (TFE). The research uses the anthropocentric faceted approach (AFA) to assess the economic impact of the TFEs. As exemplified by Leninsk-Kuznetsky, a monoindustrial town located in Kemerovo region, Russia, the paper describes the specificities of social and labor relations and the impact of the TFE on sustainable development and the sustainable safety of labor. The research also justifies the approach for monitoring the social economic growth of the monoindustrial economies considering the link between sustainability, business activity and the social responsibility of the TFE (Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR).

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Yu, W., Y. Liu, M. Lin, F. Fang, and R. Xiao. "ECOSYSTEM HEALTH ASSESSMENT OF MINING CITIES BASED ON LANDSCAPE PATTERN." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W7 (September 14, 2017): 1427–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w7-1427-2017.

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Ecosystem health assessment (EHA) is one of the most important aspects in ecosystem management. Nowadays, ecological environment of mining cities is facing various problems. In this study, through ecosystem health theory and remote sensing images in 2005, 2009 and 2013, landscape pattern analysis and Vigor-Organization-Resilience (VOR) model were applied to set up an evaluation index system of ecosystem health of mining city to assess the healthy level of ecosystem in Panji District Huainan city. Results showed a temporal stable but high spatial heterogeneity landscape pattern during 2005&ndash;2013. According to the regional ecosystem health index, it experienced a rapid decline after a slight increase, and finally it maintained at an ordinary level. Among these areas, a significant distinction was presented in different towns. It indicates that the ecosystem health of Tianjijiedao town, the regional administrative centre, descended rapidly during the study period, and turned into the worst level in the study area. While the Hetuan Town, located in the northwestern suburb area of Panji District, stayed on a relatively better level than other towns. The impacts of coal mining collapse area, land reclamation on the landscape pattern and ecosystem health status of mining cities were also discussed. As a result of underground coal mining, land subsidence has become an inevitable problem in the study area. In addition, the coal mining subsidence area has brought about the destruction of the farmland, construction land and water bodies, which causing the change of the regional landscape pattern and making the evaluation of ecosystem health in mining area more difficult. Therefore, this study provided an ecosystem health approach for relevant departments to make scientific decisions.

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Jereb, Robert. "Town and Places of Memory: the Case of Idrija." Ars & Humanitas 13, no. 1 (August 20, 2019): 219–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ah.13.1.219-233.

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The evolution of Idrija, the oldest mining town in Slovenia, has always been affiliated with the extraction of mercury-rich ore, which is why the settlement was shaped as an agglomeration alongside the mining shafts and objects. The extraction of mercury also brought about the flow of knowledge. Knowledge, as well as attitudes towards it, gained great importance in the town, being considered a technological capital, and one of the founding characteristics of the Idrija habitus, which also encompasses a wide spectrum of the town’s imaginarium. Parts of this are definitely the heritage of mining, architectural heritage, and non-material (living) heritage, represented primarily by Idrija lace, the Miners’ Brass Band, and culinary specialties (žlikrofi). The characteristics and achievements of the mining activity, local culture and community are all listed on the UNESCO world heritage list. The most important places of the imaginarium of the town are the restored individual important objects and machinery, and certain places which held an important historical memory and thus became the founding identity of the network. Everything that was left out, and remained unrestored, dislocated from the visual field, is slowly fading from the consciousness of the community, despite the fact that some of these places held an important historical value, and thus they are losing an identifying role and symbolic meaning to the community. The image of the town has, for centuries, been dual: the mining and bourgeois bottom of the valley and the miners’ dwellings in the margins. Such a memory of the town is slowly fading away, although individual exceptional buildings and devices, in which the heritage of the town and mining are concentrated, still stand out.

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Jereb, Robert. "Town and Places of Memory: the Case of Idrija." Ars & Humanitas 13, no. 1 (August 20, 2019): 219–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ars.13.1.219-233.

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The evolution of Idrija, the oldest mining town in Slovenia, has always been affiliated with the extraction of mercury-rich ore, which is why the settlement was shaped as an agglomeration alongside the mining shafts and objects. The extraction of mercury also brought about the flow of knowledge. Knowledge, as well as attitudes towards it, gained great importance in the town, being considered a technological capital, and one of the founding characteristics of the Idrija habitus, which also encompasses a wide spectrum of the town’s imaginarium. Parts of this are definitely the heritage of mining, architectural heritage, and non-material (living) heritage, represented primarily by Idrija lace, the Miners’ Brass Band, and culinary specialties (žlikrofi). The characteristics and achievements of the mining activity, local culture and community are all listed on the UNESCO world heritage list. The most important places of the imaginarium of the town are the restored individual important objects and machinery, and certain places which held an important historical memory and thus became the founding identity of the network. Everything that was left out, and remained unrestored, dislocated from the visual field, is slowly fading from the consciousness of the community, despite the fact that some of these places held an important historical value, and thus they are losing an identifying role and symbolic meaning to the community. The image of the town has, for centuries, been dual: the mining and bourgeois bottom of the valley and the miners’ dwellings in the margins. Such a memory of the town is slowly fading away, although individual exceptional buildings and devices, in which the heritage of the town and mining are concentrated, still stand out.

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Connell-Variy, Theodore, Björn Berggren, and Tony McGough. "Housing Markets and Resource Sector Fluctuations: A Cross-Border Comparative Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 9, 2021): 8918. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13168918.

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Recent research has sought to better understand resource and housing market cycles longitudinally and define clear phases in order to understand interactions between the two over time. This is a necessary step forward in housing market knowledge for this under researched area, particularly in an economically unique context. This paper expands knowledge by undertaking a comparative study of town housing markets in Queensland’s coal mining Bowen Basin and Sweden’s northern municipalities—specifically Gallivare and Kiruna—where a long history of iron ore mining exists. This paper analyses these housing markets using longitudinal data spanning two decades, which includes two resources cycles in two geographically disparate locations. The results indicate that the housing market in Queensland, Australia, is far more volatile than the housing market in the Swedish municipalities. The regional housing market in Sweden’s municipalities tend to be less dependent on resource price and output from mines than their Australian counterparts. Part of the explanation for this is that the Swedish towns examined are less of the traditional mining town known from previous studies, and more a town with mining. Developing and improving understanding of markets over the duration of a cycle is important. Particular value is apparent in the comparison and contrasting of two separate resource regions encompassing resource reliant communities in two different countries. Importantly, the linkage of research regions through resource relationships leads to groundbreaking research which will have practical benefit to multiple economies, housing markets and for policy-makers alike.

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Fraser, Barbara. "Peruvian mining town must balance health and economics." Lancet 367, no. 9514 (March 2006): 889–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(06)68363-3.

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Pini, Barbara, Robyn Mayes, and Kate Boyer. "“Scary” heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town." Journal of Rural Studies 32 (October 2013): 168–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.06.002.

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Louw, Hendrik, and Lochner Marais. "Mining and municipal finance in Kathu, an open mining town in South Africa." Extractive Industries and Society 5, no. 3 (July 2018): 278–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2018.05.005.

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Mazurek, Kinga. "Socio-economic problems in a mining town during the economy restructuring period on the example of Ruda Śląska, Poland." Environmental & Socio-economic Studies 1, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/environ-2015-0018.

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Abstract The 90s of the twientieth century carried a restructuring of the industry which involved the adaptation of enterprises to operate in a market economy, the workforce reduction and privatization of industrial facilities. Economic transformation has contributed to the socio-economic changes in industrial and mining towns. It affected the changes in the employment structure, changes in the number of population, migration decisions, the quality of medical care and municipal institutions support. Ruda Śląska is a typical mining town, history of which for nearly 200 years has been a consecutive period associated with the mining and heavy industries. This work is based on statistical data and approximates the effects of restructuring evident in Ruda Śląska. The presented characterization indicates that the situation prevailing in the city refers to the conditions of life in the most traditional mining regions of Central and Eastern Europe. Despite the significant reconstruction in the employment structure, Ruda Śląska retains partly its mining character. Population of the town is trying to cope with the need to adapt to new economic realities, among others, by changing the sector of economy to work in. Employment reductions have contributed to the increase of population migration. In conjunction with the natural loss it resulted in a decrease of the number of population and population aging. The support of the cities and sanitary facilities offered, among others, by social assistance centers and employment has great importance in overcoming the negative effects of the economic transformation.

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Khasanova, R. F., Ya T. Suyundukov, I. N. Semenova, and Yu S. Rafikova. "QUALITY OF DRINKING WATER IN MINING AREAS." Bulletin of Nizhnevartovsk State University, no. 2 (June 15, 2019): 104–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.36906/2311-4444/19-2/13.

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The paper presents the results of a drinking water quality study in towns located in the mining areas of the Republic of Bashkortostan, The Russian Federation. The objects of the study were underground water supply sources and water distribution networks of the towns of Uchaly, Sibay, and Baimak. In total, 30 water wells were examined, and five water samples were collected from the water distribution network in each town. The water quality indicators were pH, solid residue, total hardness, copper content, zinc content, iron content, and manganese content. The water quality in water distribution networks corresponded to the permissible limits according to environmental and sanitary regulations, except for the increased iron contentprobably due to corrosion of water supply pipelines. The water quality in non-centralized water supply (wells) in some areas failed to meet the sanitary standards. Priority indicators of water pollution were increased hardness and mineralization, high content of iron and manganese. To provide the residents with high-quality drinking water, it is proposed to make a complete inspection of centralized and non-centralized water sources not only within the towns, but also in the neighbouring communities. It is necessary to install filtration plants, primarily to reduce the iron content, in roder to bring the water taken from the wells for household and drinking purposes to the standard quality.

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Guo, Zhong Ping, Jia Zhuo Li, Chang Hua Li, and Hai Bin Ge. "Short Wall Box Style Mining Method of Strip Coal Pillar under Town." Applied Mechanics and Materials 121-126 (October 2011): 4146–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.121-126.4146.

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To recover strip coal pillar and reduce cost after strip mining, the short wall box style mining method was presented. Strata stability was analyzed based on support plate theory, mechanical model of the second strata movement was created, and safety factor was deduced .The ground movement and deformation were predicted, with probability integration method. The application demonstrates that this mining method can protect buildings on earth’s surface, improve the recovery ratio of coal and reduce cost. This mining method has a good economic advantage and environmental benefit.

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Tyler, Katharine. "Reflexivity, tradition and racism in a former mining town." Ethnic and Racial Studies 27, no. 2 (March 2004): 290–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0141987042000177342.

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Salas-Luevano, Miguel Angel, Eduardo Manzanares-Acuña, Consuelo Letechipia-de Leon, Víctor Martin Hernandez-Davila, and Hector Rene Vega-Carrillo. "Lead concentration in soil from an old mining town." Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 289, no. 1 (April 6, 2011): 35–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-011-1054-6.

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Höller, Lukas. "Porous Kirkenes: Crumbling Mining Town or Dynamic Port Cityscape?" Urban Planning 6, no. 3 (July 27, 2021): 197–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i3.4105.

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The great number of actors in port city regions, such as port authorities, municipalities, national governments, private companies, societal groups, and flora and fauna, need to develop shared visions. Collaborative approaches that focus on combined values can help achieve long-term resilience and enable a sustainable and just coexistence of port and city actors within the same territory. However, the sheer focus on economic profit generated by port activities overshadows and ignores equally essential cultural, societal, and environmental values and needs. The lack of pluralities in planning and decision-making processes creates challenges for the cohabitation of the many actors and their interests within port-city regions. On the one hand, contemporary spaces in port cities cannot be classified and defined by traditional dichotomies anymore. On the other hand, the perception of spatial and institutional boundaries between port and city leads to a positivistic-driven definition of a rigid and inflexible, line-like interface physically and mentally separating the port from the urban activities and stakeholders, neglecting the inseparable character of many parts of our society. By investigating and re-imagining the future port-development plans within the historic mining town of Kirkenes, located around 400 km above the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway, the aim of this article is to explore and combine the concepts of negative and positive porosity and liminality and arrive at a renewed perception of the port cityscape, which can function as dynamic thresholds inbetween the multiple dualities and realities of various port and city actors. The article bridges the theoretical/conceptual sphere of urban porosity and the practical approaches of liminal design. By using Design Fiction as a tool for creating new, innovative, and pluralistic port city narratives, the article contributes to contemporary research that aims for imaginary, value-based, and history-informed approaches to designing future-proof, resilient, just, and sustainable port cities.

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Wegner, Jan, and Jana Kahabka. "Croydon’s historic machinery collection: A case study in the uses and needs of outback heritage machinery collections." Queensland Review 25, no. 2 (December 2018): 252–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2018.30.

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AbstractOne response to the development of tourism in small inland Queensland towns has been to collect heritage machinery from the surrounding countryside and display it in town as an attraction for visitors. These sites range from open-air collections of miscellaneous i3tems with no explanation of their use to both private and local government museums that are given varying levels of care and interpretation. The small north-western Queensland town of Croydon has a collection of heritage machinery in a number of sites, which range across this continuum. This article explores the potential of the collection to interpret the town’s history and the history of early gold mining, as a case study with application to other such collections.

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Rygalova, Maria. "БАРНАУЛ ГЛАЗАМИ ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЕЙ И ПУТЕШЕСТВЕННИКОВ XVIII–XIX ВВ." Proceedings of Altai State Academy of Culture and Arts, no. 2 (2021): 54–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.32340/2414-9101-2021-2-54-61.

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The paper outlines the contribution in developing Barnaul's image as a mining town made by Russian and foreign explorers and travellers of the 18th and 19th centuries (Erik Laxmann, Peter Simon Pallas, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Alexander von Bunge, Carl Anton von Meyer, etc.) who visited Kolyvano-Voskresensky Mining District (Russian Empire) with business or academic purposes. In 1730s, Barnaul becomes a capital of mining industry and that leaves its traces on economic, architectural, cultural, and everyday face of the town. Impressions of explorers and travellers fixed in travel notes, diaries, memoires, academic papers, give to modern researchers an opportunity to get an idea of Barnaul's live in 18th and 19th centuries.

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Zubir, Zusneli. "SAWAHLUNTO DAN PELESTARIAN MULTIKULTURAL: SEBUAH SUMBANGSIH PEMIKIRAN UNTUK WISATA TAMBANG BERBUDAYA." JURNAL PENELITIAN SEJARAH DAN BUDAYA 3, no. 02 (November 25, 2018): 916–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.36424/jpsb.v3i02.8.

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Sawahlunto is a city which formed from coal mining activity was ever victorious in its time. More orless a century more, the oldest company in Sumatera Island was ever lived and sustain the Sawahluntocity and West Sumatra in generaly. To developing this paper, there are two questions that can be asked,what the cause so Sawahluto turned into a cultural tourism with mining city? and how to developmenttourism of Sawahlunto in side analysis of SWOT?After the year 2002, Sawahlunto has entered thepurna tambang. All open mining activities are inadequate, and the revenue of Kota Sawahlunto’sAPBD also has an effect because it depends on input from PT. Bukit Asam (Persero), Tbk-Mining UnitOmbilin (PT.BA-UPO). The government of Sawahlunto, under Mayor Amran Nur, strives to bring inforeign exchange for mining cities. The concept of a mining town into a cultured mining town wascreated, it will given income of this mining tour can be a mainstay of Sawahlunto in the future, thereare some things that need to be observed, especially with regard to SWOT analysis. If four things in theSWOT analysis that can be overcome, Pemko Sawahlunto will easily make the area as a touristdestination.

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Molchanov, O., S. Rudenko, Y. Soroka, M. Soroka, and K. Brechko. "RADIATION PROTECTIVE ACTIVITY DURING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STATE PROGRAM FOR THE PROTECTION OF POPULATION OF ZHOVTI VODY TOWN." Radiation Protection Dosimetry 191, no. 2 (September 2020): 129–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncaa136.

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Abstract The town of Zhovti Vody is a ‘capital’ of uranium mining and processing industry of Ukraine. The mining and processing of uranium has been carried out in this area for more than 60 y. During this period, due to increasing production activities, the town has grown significantly. As a result of production activities and also due to the human factor, the territory of the town was contaminated by radioactive rocks. In addition, out of ignorance, radioactive rocks were used in the construction of houses and roads. To normalize the radiation situation in the town, a targeted State Programme was adopted in 2003 for a period of 10 y. In 2013, the Programme was subsequently extended until 2022. In accordance with this Programme, decontamination of the urban territory, measurements of radon isotopes in houses and anti-radon reconstructions of the premises have been performed. The results of these works are described in this article.

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Kaur, Amarjit. "Hewers and Haulers: A History of Coal Miners and Coal Mining in Malaya." Modern Asian Studies 24, no. 1 (February 1990): 75–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00001177.

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The history of coal mining in Malaya is synonymous with the history of Malayan Collieries and Batu Arang town since coal was only ever economically mined in this small area in Ulu Selangor. The town of Batu Arang, the Malayan Collieries and the mines left an indelible mark on Malayan history. Previous accounts of the history of coal mining are restricted to mentions in general works on labour and the labour unrest of 1936–37 and 1946–47. This paper outlines the role of coal mining in the Malayan economy in the first half of the twentieth century. It also focuses on the history of labour at the collieries and the significant role that labour played in the development and growth of industrial activism in Malaya.

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Eklund, Erik, and Antoinette A. Eklund. "“Do you Love the Town you Live in?”: Narratives of Place from Australian Mining Towns." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review 3, no. 7 (2008): 53–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v03i07/59351.

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Morantz, Robert A., John S. Neuberger, Larry H. Baker, Gary B. Beringer, Andrew B. Kaufman, and Tom D. Y. Chin. "Epidemiological findings in a brain-tumor cluster in Western Missouri." Journal of Neurosurgery 62, no. 6 (June 1985): 856–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/jns.1985.62.6.0856.

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✓ A cluster of seven primary brain neoplasms was identified in a town of 3000 population during the 10-year period from 1973 to 1982. With six deaths, this represents an age-adjusted mortality rate 4.1 times greater than expected. No other neoplasms were found to be in excess of the anticipated incidence in this town. When brain-tumor mortality rates in 36 other towns of approximately the same population were calculated, only one other town was found to have an excessive rate. All seven tumors in this study were histologically verified: six were diagnosed as glioblastoma multiforme. Interviews were conducted with patients or next-of-kin to obtain the exposure histories of the patients. A number of respondents reported occupational or residential exposure either to a shoe factory or to one of the several chicken hatcheries in the town. Many of the patients ate fish from local ponds that had previously been used as coal mining strip pits. Two patients were siblings. None of the patients had a history of significant head trauma. This unique situation may provide an opportunity to learn more about environmental risk factors for brain neoplasia. Further epidemiological studies are planned.

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Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona, Aleksandra Zdyrko, and Jakub Bednarczyk. "Semi-Natural Areas on Post-Mining Brownfields as an Opportunity to Strengthen the Attractiveness of a Small Town. An Example of Radzionków in Southern Poland." Land 10, no. 7 (July 19, 2021): 761. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10070761.

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The socio-economic and political changes of the end of the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe had significant impacts on the transformation of urban spaces, especially in industrial and mining towns. The article attempts to explain the essence of these changes concerning the spatial development of—a small post-mining town in southern Poland. This article evaluates urban development policy in response to the significant land-use changes in the small post-mining city of Radzionków, with particular attention to the transformation of brownfield sites to semi-natural areas of regional importance. This issue is interesting for two reasons. First, this small city, located in a large European agglomeration, has to face competition focused on interesting regional projects. Second, there is a desire for reindustrialization as a remedy for job losses in mining and heavy industry. The successful establishment of a large botanical garden in this city provides a case study for discussing the future of small post-industrial cities and the development of land use policy regarding valuable natural areas located in post-industrial and post-mining areas. This study also indicates the vital role of the creative management factor.

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Vandenbusche, Duane, and Malcolm J. Rohrbough. "Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879-1893." American Historical Review 97, no. 2 (April 1992): 624. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2165884.

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ARSLAN, İsmail. "A MINING TOWN FROM TANZIMAT TO REPUBLIC: BALYA (1839–1923)." Journal of Academic Social Science Studies Volume 3 Issue 2, no. 3 (2010): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.9761/jasss_27.

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Gill, Alison M. "Experimenting with environmental design research in Canada's newest mining town." Applied Geography 9, no. 3 (July 1989): 177–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0143-6228(89)90038-6.

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Ewusi, A., and J. Seidu. "Borehole Rehabilitation: A Case Study in the Dunkwa Mining Town." Ghana Mining Journal 20, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 11–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gm.v20i2.2.

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Rehabilitation works were carried out on boreholes in the Dunkwa Mining town in the Central Region of Ghana. These works were carried out because the boreholes had lost their original yields due to clogging, corrosion and encrustation and had been abandoned for a long time. The cost of drilling a new well and assessing the productivity of the well is $4,500 which is more expensive that carrying out rehabilitation works which is cheaper, about $800. Also, the initial yields of the boreholes were very high according to the feasibility report which is not a common characteristic of the rocks in the area. Camera inspection followed by rehabilitation, pre and post pumping tests were carried out to assess whether there has been an improvement in their yield after the exercise and that the yield obtained will be adequate for a water supply design. Results show that all the boreholes had an improvement in their yields (57.19 - 259.80 %) after the rehabilitation. It can therefore be concluded that rehabilitation is effective in restoring boreholes to their original yields. Organisations drilling boreholes to communities can take advantage of rehabilitation of the existing boreholes located in the communities which are high yielding, thereby reducing project implementation cost. Keywords: Borehole Rehabilitation, Borehole Yields, Borehole Camera Inspection, Pumping Test

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Manzanares-Acuña, E., MC Escobar-Leon, HR Vega-Carrillo, MÁ Salas Luévano, and C. Letechipía de León. "Lead Concentration Levels in the Soil of a Mining Town." Epidemiology 19, no. 1 (January 2008): S222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.ede.0000291909.44541.7d.

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Siegel, Shefa. "The Missing Ethics of Mining." Ethics & International Affairs 27, no. 1 (2013): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0892679412000731.

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In the middle of the 1980s the pastoralists of Essakane, Burkina Faso, were dying. Drought gripped the drylands of West Africa, crippling peoples' semi-nomadic livelihoods of millet farming and goat herding. When rain finally returned after three years, the earth had hardened like concrete and water skimmed across the floodplain, barely penetrating the surface. Without arable land the people faced famine—until they discovered gold. Instead of a disaster area, Essakane transformed into a commercial oasis: a mining town of 10,000 miners and traders where gold is processed and exchanged for food, cloth, spices, and animals.

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Danzi, Jane. "The Reality of Youth in Isolation." Children Australia 16, no. 04 (1991): 29–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200012566.

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Weipa is a small mining town with a population of 3,000, located on the west coast of far North Queensland. The mining of bauxite and kaolin by Comalco Mineral Products provide the reason for Weipa’s existence. Frequently described as a ‘closed town’, Weipa has no local government authority. All housing is supplied by Comalco and most of the working population is employed by the company. Those not employed by Comalco are mostly government employees or service personnel. Now twenty-six years old, Weipa is facing a possible change from company control to local government management, a move referred to as ‘normalisation’, and one which has evoked mixed feelings.

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Robertson, Stuart, and Boyd Blackwell. "Mine Lifecycle Planning and Enduring Value for Remote communities." International Journal of Rural Law and Policy, no. 1 (September 9, 2014): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ijrlp.i1.2014.3846.

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Mine lifecycle planning is critical to developing enduring value from mining for remote communities. The history of mining is replete with examples of communities being unsustainable post mine closure. The concept of enduring value involves ensuring that a sustainable community will remain following the closure of an associated mine. Since 2003, awareness has increased amongst the International and Australian peak mining bodies for the need to plan for enduring community value. This increased awareness has developed alongside the requirement for mining companies to operate in a socially responsible manner by maintaining a social license to operate. This paper thematically reviews the literature relevant to mine life cycle planning, enduring value, the socio-economic impacts of mining, and mine closure. Conditions required for a community to gain enduring value from mining include: ‘normalisation’ rather than being a ‘closed’ town; the existence of government support and funding; and realised economic diversification opportunities. It is imperative that these conditions are given due consideration 1) in the initial stages of mine and town planning and 2) throughout the life of the mine through ongoing monitoring and community engagement. However, we acknowledge the shortcomings in assuming planning is a panacea and suggest areas for further testing.

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Fazito, Mozart. "The emergence of Resistance through Criticality: leisure and tourism in the Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve, Brazil." Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo 13, no. 2 (May 13, 2019): 113–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v13i2.1556.

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Following the initial success of a sustainable tourism programme, the town of Conceição do Mato Dentro, located within the UNESCO Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve, in Brazil, changed remarkably after a large iron ore mining project was launched in 2006. Among the changes was the replacement of tourism with mining as the municipality’s priority development policy. The town changed from a quiet and small rural town to a dusty and busy industrial site. Although the communities affected by the mine initially supported the mining project, this research identified emergent and growing dissatisfaction among them. A discourse analysis approach was employed to unveil the seeds of a resistance movement that has been emerging from the social practices to challenge the dominant modernization and neoliberal discourses of development represented by the mining project. It is argued that resistance can be traced back to both the advantages that the previous sustainable tourism programme brought and to the preservation of leisure sites that were previously used for socialization and amusement but are now either off-limits or have been destroyed. Such people are not seen here as ‘host communities’, but tourists. Tourism and leisure experiences performed by people affected by the mine generated a sense of community and solidarity, but its discontinuity had undermined the possibilities of criticism and resistance, as such values were misrepresented in the policy arenas that hosted the debates around the mining project. Despite its importance among community members, leisure has not been used to legitimize the resistance discourses against the mining project. Rather, the resistance speech focused on job creation and the expansion of wealth and income, thus weakening the possibilities of transforming the status quo.

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Dzvimbo, Munyaradzi A., Colleen Ncube, and Monica Monga. "Scratching the Surface: Exploring Women's Roles in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Zimbabwe." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal) : Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 3 (August 2, 2019): 125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v2i3.398.

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Artisanal mining communities around the world are diverse, dynamic and distinct in nature they vary from culture-to-culture, region-to-region and mine-to-mine, and change over the course of time.Women within these communities are also heterogeneous and unique; however, they tend to be engaged in specific roles throughout the world.A qualitative approach in form of a descriptive survey research design was adopted, in which purposive systematic sampling was used and qualitative data was generated. Semi-structured questionnaires were used to collect data from predominantly mining towns Kadoma, Kwekwe and Shurugwi as well surrounding areas.The sample size was compelled by the different mining areas which are a considerable distance from each other with sparsely distributed population. The focus of data collection was on women’s responsibilities in mineral processing activities range from crushing, grinding, sieving, washing and panning, to amalgamation and amalgam decomposition in the case of gold mining.Typically, women are labourers (e.g. panners, ore carriers and processors), providers of goods and services (for instance cooks, shopkeepers) and are often solely responsible for domestic chores. The total number of artisanal miners for the three mining towns was 1500 and a sample of 10% (150 miners) of the three towns, with each town having 50 was sampled. The artisanal miners taken to be part of the population sample were systematic selected till the last person. The composition of the miners was made up 41% of the females while the remaining 59% were male respondents.

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Murillo, Dana Velasco. "Laboring Above Ground: Indigenous Women in New Spain’s Silver Mining District, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1620–1770." Hispanic American Historical Review 93, no. 1 (February 1, 2013): 3–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1902778.

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Abstract This article considers the roles and experiences of indigenous women in the silver mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico, from the early seventeenth century through the late colonial period (1620–1770). Indigenous women of all ages and civil statuses migrated and settled in Zacatecas through the colonial period. Using Spanish sources, this article highlights the importance of their contributions to the production of silver and to the settlement of the city and its four Indian towns. It argues for a broader understanding of the labor involved in silver production to include activities performed outside the mines by women. Some of this work involved the preparation and distribution of goods and foodstuffs and basic housekeeping at mining haciendas, and women’s engagement with small-scale trade, market activities, and the management of properties in the city. Indian women also contributed to the vitality of the city and its Indian communities, migrating and settling in Zacatecas in large numbers even during periods of mining declines. Within these communities, episodes of high male absenteeism often left Indian women in charge of their households. As primary caretakers, they cared for their children and often used legal measures to protect them from abusive labor practices common to mining towns. Ultimately, this article argues that indigenous women’s roles above ground were as important as those performed by their male, silver-extracting counterparts below ground.

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Ferrell, Robyn. "Pinjarra 1970: Shame and the Country Town." Cultural Studies Review 9, no. 1 (September 13, 2013): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v9i1.3581.

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Pinjarra in 1970 lay on an extraordinary cusp. It lagged along a fault line between one order and another; or rather, it squatted at a precipice, over which its cherished values had already been dashed to pieces. In 1967, Aboriginal people were at last, by national referendum, declared citizens of Australia. In 1969, Alcoa began to prepare the site in the hills behind Pinjarra for the open-cut mining of the largest bauxite deposit so far discovered in the world. The past met the future, and they didn’t recognise each other.

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McClure, Wendy R. "Sustaining Heritage Patterns in Mining Towns of the North American West: A Historico-Geographical Approach." Heritage 4, no. 2 (June 7, 2021): 961–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage4020052.

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Urban morphology provides essential methodologies to inform processes for heritage preservation and design intervention in historic places. Among principal research methods used by urban morphologists, the historico-geographical approach is particularly helpful for interpreting formative and transformative processes and for identifying key elements that define the physical structure of historic contexts at a town or neighbourhood scale. This article will discuss applications of an adapted historico-geographical approach to analyse heritage patterns in 19th-century mining towns located in mountainous regions of the western United States. Profiled case studies are part of an ongoing study intended to inform design and revitalization processes by architects, planners and community stakeholders in the region.

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Zhao, Xiao Fan, and Jia Bao Wang. "Fitness Evaluation for Residential Land in a Mountainous Town." Advanced Materials Research 798-799 (September 2013): 1170–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.798-799.1170.

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Nanfen is a mountainous town in East Liaoning of China, where plenty of industrial and mining enterprises were allocated. Suitability evaluation on residential land in Nanfen was of importance for local resident living. Evaluation results indicated the most suitable, sub suitable, barely suitable and unsuitable area for residential land was 208.08 km2, 169.95 km2, 149.51 km2 and 91.46 km2, respectively. Spatially, the most suitable areas were mainly distributed in Sishanling town, and sub suitable, barely suitable and unsuitable areas were chiefly located in Xiamatang town. Residential land in Nanfen should be unified and reallocated to better residents living environment.

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Walsh, Andrew. "AFTER THE RUSH: LIVING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN A MALAGASY MINING TOWN." Africa 82, no. 2 (May 2012): 235–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972012000034.

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ABSTRACTThis article addresses the uncertainties of life in the once booming, but now declining, centre of northern Madagascar's sapphire trade. Although the characteristic features of small-scale mining boomtowns have become well known to many through research on gold, diamond and other rushes throughout Africa and elsewhere in the world, relatively little is known of what happens to such distinctive communities after they boom. What becomes of the unique social networks, consumption patterns, and world-views so often associated with these places when the supply of or demand for the particular commodities around which they have developed declines? Who leaves and who stays behind? How do those remaining in such places continue to earn livings and make meaningful lives despite the decline that surrounds them, and how do they make sense of their circumstances in light of memories of better times? This article addresses these and other questions as they relate to life after the rush in the northern Malagasy sapphire-mining and trading town of Ambondromifehy, arguing that the uncertainties faced by those who remain indicate new possibilities as much as continuing decline.

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Churg, Andrew, and Lisa DePaoli. "Environmental Pleural Plaques in Residents of a Quebec Chrysotile Mining Town." Chest 94, no. 1 (July 1988): 58–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.94.1.58.

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Jackson, Tony, and Barbara Illsley. "Tumbler ridge, British Columbia: The mining town that refused to die." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 4, no. 2 (September 2006): 163–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14794010708656846.

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Wylie, John. "Persistent Memories: Pyramiden – A Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic." Journal of Historical Geography 39 (January 2013): 141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2012.10.006.

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González-Carrasco, Víctor, Patricio C. Velasquez-Lopez, Jesús Olivero-Verbel, and Nerlis Pájaro-Castro. "Air Mercury Contamination in the Gold Mining Town of Portovelo, Ecuador." Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 87, no. 3 (July 17, 2011): 250–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00128-011-0345-5.

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Olivier, Nic, Clara Williams, and Pieter Badenhorst. "Maccsand (Pty) Ltd v City of Cape Town 2012 (4) SA 181 (CC)." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 15, no. 5 (June 1, 2017): 537. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2012/v15i5a2534.

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The Constitutional Court in Maccsand (Pty) Ltd v City of Cape Town (CCT 103/11) 2012 ZACC 7 decided that the granting of mining rights or mining permits by the Minister of Mineral Resources in terms of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002 does not obviate the obligation on an applicant to obtain authorisations in terms of other legislation that deals with functional domains other than minerals, mining and prospecting. This applies to all other legislation, irrespective of whether the responsible administrator of such other legislation is in the national, provincial or local sphere of government. The effect of the decision is that planning and other authorities which derive their statutory mandate and powers from other legislation retain all their powers as regards planning and rezoning, for instance. In addition, the Minister of Mineral Resources cannot make a decision on behalf of, or for, such functionaries. The judgement also clarified the question of whether or not a national Act can supersede provincial legislation dealing with a distinctly different functional domain. In principle, the decision also indicates that the fact that a range of authorisations are required in terms of separate statutory instruments (each with its own functional domain and administered by its own functionary) does not necessarily amount to conflicts between these instruments. An owner of land may now insist that his land may not be used for mining purposes if it is not zoned for such purposes. It is submitted that, in order to provide certainty to land owners, developers and government functionaries, and to promote investor confidence (especially in the mining sector), an intergovernmental system for the consideration of applications by the functionaries responsible for the separate statutory instruments needs to be developed as a high priority.

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Vedernikov, A. S., and P. I. Zuev. "Zoning of undermined urban territories in the area of the Berezovsky town." Mining informational and analytical bulletin, no. 3-1 (March 20, 2020): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.25018/0236-1493-2020-31-0-37-45.

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Zoning of undermined urban territories since the beginning of observations over disruption of undermined ground surface in the form of subsidence or sinking, in the worst case, yet remains critical for the population clusters nearby or within mineral mining areas. The problem is of the special concern for industrial towns in the Ural where historically manufacturing communities developed alongside with mining and metallurgical industries, and in the same territory. After decades and sometimes ages have passed, safe and efficient use of these areas remains problematic in view of the disembodied or missing information about their condition. One of such residential areas is the town of Berezovsky with the major portion of its territory being undermined. Closure and subsequent flooding of a once-urban gold mine necessitated the territorial research. During the research using the geotechnical, geodetic and other type information provided by the mine engineering service, the zoning procedure was developed and implemented in the geoinformation environment, and the consequences of the flooding were defined. The research results are unique in view of the singularity and diversity of characteristics of underground excavations and induced ground surface sinks clustered inside the study territory.

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Davies, Amanda, and Bobbie Oliver. "Life within and life of a mining town: the historical geography of Western Australia’s first iron ore town." Australian Geographer 49, no. 1 (May 3, 2017): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2017.1318801.

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Bowater, Max. "The experience of a rural general practitioner using videoconferencing for telemedicine." Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 7, no. 2_suppl (December 2001): 24–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/1357633011937038.

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A telemedicine link was installed between a mining town in Western Australia and clinical specialists in Perth, about 1800 km away. Standard commercial videoconferencing units connected by ISDN at 128 kbit/s were used. During a two-year period, 90 teleconsultations were carried out. About one-third of the injuries to mining construction workers were eye problems. In more than 75% of teleconsultations a patient transfer to Perth was avoided.

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Megarrity, Lyndon. "A History of Gold Mining in Ravenswood." Queensland Review 5, no. 1 (May 1998): 52–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600001707.

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Ravenswood is approximately 125 kilometres inland from Townsville. In the early 1900s, it was among the top gold producers in North Queensland. Now, in the 1990s, after several decades of limited activity, Ravenswood gold mining has undergone a revival. This paper will explore the history of Ravenswood from its inception to the present day, emphasising the importance of technology to the progress of the goldfield. Special attention will be drawn to the New Ravenswood Ltd. Company (1899–1917), which combined innovative technology with an effective management, thereby creating an unprecedented level of prosperity in the town of Ravenswood.

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