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  • adjective Not minable.

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  • It "opens up new, previously unminable coal reserves, of which we have an abundance in America," he says.

    Power Plays 2009

  • In theory – and, currently, in limited practice – the carbon dioxide can be injected into permeable geological formations, surrounded by impermeable rocks, such as deep saline formations, exhausted oil and gas reservoirs, unminable coal seams, and even abandoned coal mines.

    Does carbon capture and storage work??? GayandRight 2008

  • Missiles are already working the economically unminable taconite ore of the Mesabi Range, have helped build the

    The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics.

  • Platt said he and other miners were sometimes required to put in 18 to 20-hour days and were told to work what he said was "unminable coal," which opened wide cracks in the mine ceiling, making a roof collapse more likely.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Platt said he and other miners were sometimes required to put in 18 to 20-hour days and were told to work what he said was "unminable coal," which opened wide cracks in the mine ceiling, making a roof collapse more likely.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Platt said he and other miners were sometimes required to put in 18 to 20-hour days and were told to work what he said was "unminable coal," which opened wide cracks in the mine ceiling, making a roof collapse more likely.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Platt said he and other miners were sometimes required to put in 18 to 20-hour days and were told to work what he said was "unminable coal," which opened wide cracks in the mine ceiling, making a roof collapse more likely.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Such term shall include storage at deep saline formations and unminable coal seems under such conditions as the Secretary may determine under such regulations.

    Oekologismus.de 2010

  • Platt said he and other miners were sometimes required to put in 18 to 20-hour days and were told to work what he said was "unminable coal," which opened wide cracks in the mine ceiling, making a roof collapse more likely.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Platt said he and other miners were sometimes required to put in 18 to 20-hour days and were told to work what he said was "unminable coal," which opened wide cracks in the mine ceiling, making a roof collapse more likely.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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