1.   All three agencies must grant various permits for mine operators to fill streams with mine rubble.

2.   Briefs were filed by coal mine operators, electrical and general contractors, the American Trucking Associations and movie and television producers.

3.   But at the same time, it has championed changes in its own rules that would allow mine operators to dump poisonous wastes in rivers and streams.

4.   Down at the courthouse, truck owners and mine operators gathered one day to consider ways to skirt the law.

5.   Environmentalists are livid because the mine operators plan to use a cyanide solution to extract gold from Buckhorn Mountain.

6.   It discussed what happened at Libby, explained the hazards of asbestos and explained how mine operators can protect workers from the lethal fiber.

7.   Mine operators are responsible for maintaining an inventory of their explosives, with permits to store them coming from the state mine inspector.

8.   Mine operators in South Africa and elsewhere have shut down or laid off workers.

9.   Mine operators are required to send the federal government samples of the dust levels in their mines to prove they are complying with tough regulations.

10.   Patton, a former coal mine operator, favors modest tax cuts, greater economic development and only modest changes in the education system.