MINING

Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner.

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mining

Noun

  1. The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
    gold mining.
  2. Any extractive activity.
    His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
  3. The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode

Verb

mining



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