The Relationship Between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community.
Abstract An 80-year history of lead mining in rural northeastern Oklahoma has resulted in widespread coverage of residential areas with mine waste from wind-blown dispersion of mined materials and deliberate use of tailings in construction and road maintenance. For this study, environmental samples (soil, dust, paint, water)...

The Copeland Opera House.
The scholarship of American popular theatre of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has focused almost exclusively on theatre in New York and other larger U.S. cities. By comparison, very little has been written about the development and history of theatre in America's small towns and smaller cities....

The Relationship Between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community.
* Lead-based paint is often cited as the primary source of childhood lead exposure since it is present in over 60 percent of homes built before 1979 and 80 percent of homes built before 1959. * Other important sources of lead exposure in the United States are...

THE BROWNLEY HILL MINE ALSTON MOOR DISTRICT, CUMBRIA, ENGLAND.
The Brownley Hill mine is situated about 4 km east of the market town of Alston in the historic lead mining district of Alston Moor. It has recently produced exceptional specimens of the rare mineral alstonite, which was first discovered at the mine in the 1830s, and is also...

Famous Mineral Localities: the Trepca mine, Stari Trg, Kosovo.
The war-torn region of Kosovo in the Balkans has a long and involved history of mining. Over the years the world-famous Trepca mine has yielded millions of tons of lead and zinc as well as thousands of tons of silver and bismuth. More than 60 mineral species have been...

Daoping mine: Guangxi, China.
Discoveries of bright green pyromorphite in China beginning in 1999 aroused great interest in the worldwide collector community. These discoveries produced not just a few, but great numbers of wonderful specimens! The color of the pyromorphite ranges from pale yellow-green through yellow-orange, bright medium-green and dark green. The largest...

Mining and hydrological transformations in Upper Silesia from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
This paper analyses the influence of mining on hydrological conditions in Upper Silesia from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The perturbation of local hydrological conditions began in the fifteenth century as a result of wide-scale mining of iron, silver and lead ores. Further changes took place during the...

Exploration Update on the Bathurst Zinc Base Metals Mining Camp.
TSX.V: ELN OTCBB: ELNOF Frankfurt: E7Q VANCOUVER, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- El Nino Ventures Inc. ("El Nino") (TSX.V: ELN; OTCBB: ELNOF; Frankfurt: E7Q) is pleased to announce the diamond drilling program on the Bathurst Zinc Base Metals Mining Camp has resumed after a brief holiday break. Xstrata...

Results for Q3 2008 - Certej project continues to advance - Profit sustained at Stratoni.
WHITEHORSE, YT, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- European Goldfields Limited (AIM: EGU / TSX: EGU) ("European Goldfields" or the "Company") today reports its results for the quarter to 30 September 2008. Highlights are: Financial highlights: - Working capital of $208.6 million as at 30 September 2008 - Stratoni...

Mendip Hills: areas of outstanding natural beauty: an area that has been heavily influenced by its lead-mining heritage, the 198-square-kilometre Mendip Hills AONB rises above the Somerset Levels south of Bristol, providing views of the Severn estuary, Somerset and beyond.
Just a few strides into a late summer walk from Charterhouse in the heart of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) to Black Down, its highest point, and confusion has already descended. According to my companions, the land we're walking on is "gruffy ground dotted with...