Longyearbyen
Longyearbyen (lông´yērbü´ən), town and administrative center of Svalbard, on Isfjorden, Spitsbergen island. It was founded (1905) as a coal-mining settlement by an American company and named after the American miner J. M. Longyear. Its coal mines were transferred to a Norwegian company in 1916. The town was destroyed (Sept., 1943) by German battleships but was quickly rebuilt; coal mining remains important to the economy. The Svalbard International Seed Vault, a seed bank designed as a global backup storage facility, is inside a mountain near the town.
More From encyclopedia.com
Metallurgy and Mining: Terms and Concepts , mine1 / mīn/ • possessive pron. used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker: you go your way and I'll go mine some… Marcus Daly , American miner and business leader Marcus Daly (1841-1900) founded the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and was a power in Montana politics.
Marcus Dal… Strip Mining , This technique is used for near-surface, relatively flat sedimentary mineral deposits. How deeply the mining can occur is essentially determined by t… Echo Bay Mines Ltd , Echo Bay Mines Ltd.
10180 101st Street
Suite 1210
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3S4
Canada
Telephone: (403) 429-5811
Fax: (403) 429-5899
Web site: http://www… Mining Industry , Mining is a site-specific economic activity creating wealth from the extraction of nonrenewable resources from land and sea. The boundaries of the mi… Land Mine , Mines, Land
Mines, Land. Originally mine warfare consisted of tunneling beneath enemy positions and destroying them with explosives. In the Civil War…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Longyearbyen