gold mine
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Twenty-five workers were inside the gold mine when the tailings dam - a structure which holds mining waste - burst on 25 March.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Are the Dodgers baseball’s version of a gold mine?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
It was in 1901 that British businessman William Knox D’Arcy, flush with cash from developing an Australian gold mine, heard about a fortune to be made in Iranian oil.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
There are currently only two operational mines on the island -- one gold mine in the south, and one for anorthosite, a rock containing titanium, on the west coast.
From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026
The old stone tunnels changed to dirt with cedar beams, like a gold mine or something.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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