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noun

Mining n. The act or business of making mines or of working them.

verb

Mine v. t. (past & past part. mined; pres. part. mining)

To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. "They mined the walls." "Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers... had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity."

To dig into, for ore or metal. "Lead veins have been traced... but they have not been mined."

To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging. "The principal ore mined there is the bituminous cinnabar."

Mine v. i.

To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.

To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.

adjective

Mining adj. Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.

Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.

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Etymology of 'Mining'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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