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Harman resists all talk of potentialities (or of Deleuze's virtual), and of processes of becoming, as undermining (or of "overmining") the reality of objects.
Warren Ellis 2010
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An MSHA spokeswoman declined to comment on overmining, but said investigators "will examine anything and everything that could have contributed to the explosion."
Mine Disaster Inquiry to Focus on Blasting Kris Maher 2010
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An MSHA spokeswoman declined to comment on overmining, but said investigators "will examine anything and everything that could have contributed to the explosion."
Mine Disaster Inquiry to Focus on Blasting Kris Maher 2010
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Mr. McAteer said he would also be looking into overmining — a term to describe several layers of mining above an active mine.
Mine Disaster Inquiry to Focus on Blasting Kris Maher 2010
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An MSHA spokeswoman declined to comment on overmining, but said investigators "will examine anything and everything that could have contributed to the explosion."
Mine Disaster Inquiry to Focus on Blasting Kris Maher 2010
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Mr. McAteer said he would also be looking into overmining — a term to describe several layers of mining above an active mine.
Mine Disaster Inquiry to Focus on Blasting Kris Maher 2010
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Mr. McAteer said he would also be looking into overmining — a term to describe several layers of mining above an active mine.
Mine Disaster Inquiry to Focus on Blasting Kris Maher 2010
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The long-standing belief that the Earth is an inexhaustible source of resources and an inexhaustible sink of wastes leads to the overmining of natural resources and the overloading of the biosphere's regenerative cycles.
Archive 2009-02-15 2009
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The long-standing belief that the Earth is an inexhaustible source of resources and an inexhaustible sink of wastes leads to the overmining of natural resources and the overloading of the biosphere's regenerative cycles.
Ervin Laszlo / HEALING THE PLANET AN INTEGRAL DIAGNOSIS AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE CURE 2009
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Waterlogging and salinization in irrigation commands of arid and semi-arid regions, overmining of nutrients, and excessive exploitation of underground fresh waters have decreased the productivity of crops in several regions of the tropics.
1. Soil constraints on sustainable plant production in the tropics. 1992
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