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The contaminated Mobuoy dump at Campsie in County Londonderry, discovered in 2013, was used to bury thousands of tonnes of rubbish at a site spanning more than 100 acres.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Early humans occupied the site during the Middle Pleistocene, a period spanning roughly 774,000 to 129,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

Nolans is expected to be Australia’s first fully integrated rare-earths operation, spanning mining and processing activities, Arafura said Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Office of Government Ethics, lists more than 3,600 stock trades spanning a range of companies and industries during the first three months of the year.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Their internment starting in 1942 and spanning the war represented one of the darkest periods in American history.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler