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mining town

collocation in English

meanings of miningand town


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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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Examples of mining town


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Everyone knows the economic circumstances of a miningtown.
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I was brought up in a miningtown where poverty was taken for granted.
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It may be that my information and my experience can be multiplied by every miningtown and village in this country.
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It is a new town of high quality—a former miningtown that now has a varied manufacturing base.
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This is the picture in a miningtown where depopulation is taking place and where so much depends on the colliery workings.
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If one goes abroad to a miningtown, 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 a miningtown almost entirely, to almost entirely not a miningtown.
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Market towns that have no market may start to struggle, and a coal miningtown that no longer has a coal mine will certainly start to struggle.
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Chesterfield was an engineering and miningtown as 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 a miningtown.
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The town started as a miningtown for gold and silver.
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Just 22 years later, it became a free royal miningtown.
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It rose to prominence in the 1870s as a gold miningtown.
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Crestone was a small miningtown, but little paying ore was discovered.
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It was founded in the 1860s as a miningtown.
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In the early 1870s, a miningtown followed.
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It was formerly a coal miningtown but today only one open-cast mine remains.
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Golden was a miningtown which was founded around 1887.
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The area is a historical gold miningtown and is now mostly deserted.
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Tsumeb, since its founding, has been primarily a miningtown.
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