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Like the famous Highlander Folk Center, which was founded in 1932 in a mined-out, deforested and impoverished area of eastern Tennessee, the Community Center seeks to serve as a catalyst for sustainable economic development in the coalfields.

Jeff Biggers: "Roadmaps to New Power" series: Interview with Coalfields Leader Lorelei Scarbro Jeff Biggers 2010

Like the famous Highlander Folk Center, which was founded in 1932 in a mined-out, deforested and impoverished area of eastern Tennessee, the Community Center seeks to serve as a catalyst for sustainable economic development in the coalfields.

Jeff Biggers: "Roadmaps to New Power" series: Interview with Coalfields Leader Lorelei Scarbro Jeff Biggers 2010

Compared to the flow through undisturbed rock, water easily and quickly infiltrates spoil that has been dumped back into the mined-out pits.

Matt Wasson: Round One of the EPA "Coal Ash Bowl" Goes to Big Coal 2010

The remainder of the ore, containing most of the radioactivity and nearly all the crushed and ground rock material, becomes tailings, which are emplaced in engineered facilities near the mine (often in a mined-out pit).

Nuclear fuel cycle 2009

The deep geological storage of high-level waste involves encapsulating spent nuclear fuel from a reactor in specially-engineered casks, and placing these deep -- up to 1000 metres -- underground in a mined-out chamber in a geologically stable rock formation.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

And the section remaining, that is, the section that they were mining now, is really in this panel between two mined-out parts.

CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2007 2007

And that's where you have to say, should we be mining it and should we be mining it in the way we are doing it or should we be taking extraordinary precautions because of the geology and the vast amount of mined-out sections that the mine map shows?

CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2007 2007

From virgin stars the riches can continue to flow inwards, into the older, mined-out systems, feeding a vast horde of humanity who have become more populous than the stars themselves.

Archive 2006-12-01 adamosf 2006

From virgin stars the riches can continue to flow inwards, into the older, mined-out systems, feeding a vast horde of humanity who have become more populous than the stars themselves.

Resplendent adamosf 2006

This approach would work for asteroid fields, where if you allow mining you'd need a way to refresh mined-out asteroids.

The Architecture of Travel 2004