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Avesta, city, Sweden

(Encyclopedia)Avesta äˈvəstäˌ [key], city (1990 est. pop. 16,860), Kopparberg co., S central Sweden, on the Dalälven River. Aluminum and high quality steel are manufactured there. Formerly a copper mining and...

Makiyivka

(Encyclopedia)Makiyivka məkēˈəfkə [key], Rus. Makeyevka, city (1989 pop. 430,000), SE Ukraine, in the Donets Basin. It is a metallurgical and coal-mining center and has machinery and coking plants. Makiyivka w...

Louvière, La

(Encyclopedia)Louvière, La lä lo͞ovyârˈ [key], commune (1991 pop. 76,432), Hainaut prov., S Belgium. It was an industrial center of the Bassin du Centre coal-mining region but has changed its economic focus si...

Luanshya

(Encyclopedia)Luanshya lwänshˈyä [key], city (1990 pop. 146,275), N central Zambia, near the Congo border. It is a copper-mining center, located on the Copperbelt. ...

Kerkrade

(Encyclopedia)Kerkrade kĕrkˈräˌdə [key], city (1994 pop. 52,848), Limburg prov., SE Netherlands, on the German border. It is one of Europe's oldest coal-mining centers. The activity began there in the 12th cen...

Kirovsk

(Encyclopedia)Kirovsk kēˈrəfsk [key], city (1989 pop. 43,500), N European Russia, on the Kola Peninsula. The city is the center of a mining complex that produces apatite and nephelite, raw materials for the supe...

Kolwezi

(Encyclopedia)Kolwezi kōlwĕzˈē [key], city (1984 pop. 416,122), Haut-Katanga prov., SE Congo (Kinshasa). It is a center for copper and cobalt mining. There are copper-ore concentration plants, a zinc refinery, ...

Ube

(Encyclopedia)Ube o͞oˈbā [key], city (1990 pop. 175,053), Yamaguchi prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea. It has a modern harbor and an important chemical industry. Coal mining, once the city's larges...

Worksop

(Encyclopedia)Worksop wûrkˈsəp, wûrˈ– [key], town (1991 pop. 34,551), Nottinghamshire, central England. Worksop contains a portion of Sherwood Forest. It is a coal-mining center with many industries, includi...

Drumheller

(Encyclopedia)Drumheller drŭmˈhĕlˌər [key], city, SE Alta., Canada, on the Red Deer River. Once a coal mining ...