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  • 11sink —    ; sinkhole    (American.)    1. A point where a stream or river disappears underground. The sinking water may filter through a choke that excludes cavers, or may flow into an open horizontal cave or vertical shaft, and while active all of… …

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  • 12Mopani Copper Mine — Mopani Copper Mines Plc Type Public Company Industry Mining, Materials Founded N/A Headquarters Kitwe, Zambia Key people Emmanuel B Mutati, CEO …

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  • 13Erhardt v. Boaro, (113 U.S. 527) — SCOTUSCase Litigants=Erhardt v. Boaro ArgueDate=January 14 ArgueYear=1885 DecideDate=March 2 DecideYear=1885 FullName=Erhardt v. Boaro USVol=113 USPage=527 Citation= Prior= Subsequent= Holding= SCOTUS=1882 1887 Majority= JoinMajority= LawsApplied …

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  • 14Desloge Consolidated Lead Company — is a historically significant Missouri lead mining company owned by a great industrialist baron family of the 19th and 20th centuries in the new American Frontier starting just after the Louisiana Purchase, in the Southeast Missouri Lead District …

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  • 15Colfax, Illinois — Coordinates: 40°33′59″N 88°36′55″W / 40.56639°N 88.61528°W / 40.56639; 88.61528 …

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  • 16NUMBY — (NUM.bee) acronym. Not under my back yard; a person who hopes or seeks to keep some dangerous or unpleasant underground feature out of his or her neighborhood; the attitude of such a person. adj. Example Citations: In recent years, the greatest… …

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  • 17JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …

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  • 18McIntyre Mines — McIntyre Mine The McIntyre mine s an abandoned underground gold mine in Schumacher, Ontario, Canada, which has earned a place in Canadian mining history as one of the nation s most important mines. Its iconic headframe, located near downtown… …

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  • 20Tubbing — Tub bing, n. 1. The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs. [1913 Webster] 2. A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a… …

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