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Mining   /mˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Mining

noun
1.
The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth.  Synonym: excavation.
2.
Laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment.  Synonym: minelaying.



Mine

verb
(past & past part. mined; pres. part. mining)
1.
Get from the earth by excavation.
2.
Lay mines.



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"Mining" Quotes from Famous Books



... not catch the mining fever immediately; there was too much to see at first to consider any special undertaking. The mere coming to the frontier was for the present enough; he had no plans. His chief purpose was to see the world beyond the Rockies, to derive ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... affection. I can only describe him as he appeared to me. Far from being a gloomy ascetic, he always seemed to me to retain a boyish frankness, and to long to share his ideas with others. Our intimacy began when we were thrown together in mining the docks of Sebastopol during the winter of 1855-56—a period Gordon always delighted in referring to whenever we met, by calling up old scenes, and even our old jokes of that time. Like all men of action, ...
— General Gordon - A Christian Hero • Seton Churchill

... of my assistants, Frank Hall, while walking through the street, ran across Bode, who was fashionably attired. His calling cards stated that he was a mining engineer from Los Angeles, California. He told Hall a most extraordinary fairy story, saying that he had been captured by the Russians on the East front and sent to Siberia, that from Siberia he had escaped to China and ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard

... settlements. It has long been observed that Western Australia requires to be thoroughly understood in its great capacities for carrying a large population. There are vast resources yet to be developed, and what has been accomplished in sheep and cattle stations, in copper and lead mining, in wine-growing, in pearl fisheries, besides other important operations, prove that the country has scarcely been tapped, and will be sure to reward those who have the enterprise and industry to become settlers. It is only necessary to substantiate these statements ...
— Explorations in Australia • John Forrest

... mining (phosphate rock, diamonds), fish processing, brewing, tobacco, sugar, textiles, cement, ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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