1
: the process or business of working mines
2
: the activity or process of searching through large amounts of information for specific data or patterns
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The historic wagon destroyed in the blaze was once used for mining operations in Death Valley.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
Viewers learn of its former glory as a coal mining center, and how the year 1934 embroidered on the nape of players’ shirts is an observance of the Gresford Colliery disaster that killed more than 260 men.
—Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
Viewers learn of its former glory as a coal mining center, and how the year 1934 embroidered on the nape of players’ shirts is an observance of the Gresford Colliery disaster that killed more than 260 men.
—Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
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“Mining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mining. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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