1. He invented the Cornish engine, a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines. 2. In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast. 3. But when he strays from his script and talks about the local zinc and tin mines, the cooperative language fades. 4. Comibol will follow a similar process for the tin mines that are no longer operating. 5. State-owned Corp. Minera de Bolivia, or Comibol, plans to let private industry invest in existing tin mines this year. 6. The family money came from the tin mines of Bolivia. 7. The uprising radically changed the country, bringing about land redistribution, universal suffrage, and nationalization of the major tin mines. 8. Perhaps in open fields, on the beach, padi fields, abandoned tin mines or even in backlanes. 9. Abdul Sukor however did not identify the dormant tin mines which could be reopened. 10. At abandoned tin mines, long jump is a common game. |
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