mining camp
Frequency: 6.02.5 per million words
A settlement, often temporary, where miners live.
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- The old mining camp is now a ghost town.
- Life in a mining camp was often harsh and isolated.
- Many prospectors flocked to the mining camp during the gold rush.
- The company established a new mining camp deep in the mountains.
- Children in the mining camp attended a small, one-room school.
- Supplies were regularly brought to the remote mining camp.
- The discovery of silver led to the rapid growth of the mining camp.
- Archaeologists are studying the remains of an ancient mining camp.
- He spent his youth working in a bustling mining camp.
- Conditions in the mining camp improved after the union was formed.