Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blinkpan colliery, police arrested five miners in connection with the strangulation of a black worker who defied the strike call. At the Harmony mine, owners fired 74 miners who were said to have damaged the underground telephone system and harassed other workers. At an Anglo-American Corp. plant east of Johannesburg, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to evict 300 protesters. Later in the week, police fired birdshot at strikers at an Optimum coal mine, injuring at least 27 miners...
Federal agencies have managed the area since 1932, but efforts to make the caves and neighboring mountains into a national park were frustrated by local ranching and mining interests. Great Basin Park, however, is good news for nearby White Pine County, a dusty patchwork of small towns, ranches and mines. Indeed, merchants from Ely (pop. 7,000) convinced Nevada's congressional delegation last summer that the park was desperately needed. For decades, Kennecott Copper Corp., which provided thousands of jobs at an open-pit mine near Ruth, had argued that the mountains might be mineral rich. By 1980 the mine...
...mines, discovered after one blasted a hole in the U.S.-owned tanker Texaco Caribbean, added a lethal new twist to Washington's showdown with Iran. The explosives were the first to be found in the Gulf of Oman, a vital staging area for ships plying the Persian Gulf. Although the U.S.-escorted Bridgeton struck what appeared to be an Iranian mine last month, that mishap occurred hundreds of miles inside the Persian Gulf. One result of the new danger was a change of heart by Britain and France, which decided to rush minesweepers to the region after...
Five other mines were quickly spotted, their spikes protruding ominously as they bobbed in the sea. If the mines looked rather primitive, there was good reason: most of them were based on a World War I design. According to Defense Department officials, some of the explosives were manufactured by the Soviets. Moscow sold large numbers of the mines to North Korea, which apparently resold them to Iran. The devices pack up to 2,000 lbs. of TNT; when a ship hits the mine, the spikes release acid that detonates the charge...
...discovery of the floating bombs in an area once considered safe immediately halted tanker traffic. Oman and the United Arab Emirates quickly dispatched boats and helicopters to hunt for the mines. Gunners tried to explode the devices by blasting them with rifle and cannon fire. Despite the efforts, a small commercial supply ship blew up late last week, apparently after hitting a mine off the coast of Oman...