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  2. Automated mining - Wikipedia

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    Automated mining involves the removal of human labor from the mining process. [1] The mining industry is in the transition towards automation.It can still require a large amount of human capital, particularly in the developing world where labor costs are low so there is less incentive to increase efficiency.

  3. Prominence (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Prominence is a science fiction point and click adventure game [1] [2] [3] developed by Digital Media Workshop, an independent video game developer located in New York City. Gameplay involves puzzle-solving, character arcs, and a story of hope and humanity in the traditions of science fiction stories.

  4. Henry Croft - Wikipedia

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    Miner Henry Croft (January 15, 1856 — July 28, 1917) was an Australian-born lumber and mining magnate on Vancouver Island from the 1880s to 1900s. Born in Australia, Croft moved to England at a young age and was educated there.

  5. POMZ - Wikipedia

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    The POMZ-2 has 6 rows of square preformed fragments, while the POMZ-2M has 5 rows and is slightly shorter. The crude fragmentation jacket produces an uneven fragmentation effect. The effective radius of the mine is often quoted as four meters at 360 degrees, but a small number of large fragments may be lethal at ranges far exceeding that.

  6. Category:Steam Greenlight games - Wikipedia

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    The following are games and other software that have cleared the Steam Greenlight process which existed between August 2012 and June 2017; in Greenlight, developers can put up their game concepts (including screenshots, preview videos, and early builds) upon which community users can vote for these titles.

  7. Joseph Sunnen - Wikipedia

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    Sunnen was born in the coal mining town of Thayer, Illinois.He left school in the 7th grade to help on the family farm. At age 17, he purchased a Missouri lead mine with family savings, however, this failed and his brother Gus offered him employment in his automobile garage in Mexico, Missouri.

  8. Man engine - Wikipedia

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    Person on the 1837 man engine at the Samson Pit in Lower Saxony, Germany Bottom of the man engine at the Dolcoath Mine, Cornwall. The earliest known examples of this device were from the first half of the nineteenth century in the silver mining area of the Harz mountains, Germany, where they were driven by cranks connected to water wheels, although bucket hoists ("Hakenkunst") using the same ...

  9. Demand destruction - Wikipedia

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    The term came to some prominence in tandem with the peak oil theory, where demand destruction is the reduction of demand for oil and oil-derived products. [1] The term is used by Matthew Simmons, Mike Ruppert and other prominent proponents of the theory. It is also used in other resource industries, such as mining.