mining

noun

min·​ing ˈmī-niŋ 

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

image/video mining

Examples of mining in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Shafer knows that federal and state laws and politicians tend to favor mining. —Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023

Residents of Navarro County, Texas, started a petition last year opposing a bitcoin mining facility in their area. —Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023

To monitor sand mining across the world, UNEP developed its data platform called Marine Sand Watch. —Justine Calma, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023

Over the years since the 1971 passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, several of the Native corporations created by that law have been conveyed lands tainted by contaminants, typically leftover from military, mining or industrial operations from several decades in the past. —Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023

The historic rail and mining town of Helper celebrated the completion of its river revitalization project this year. —Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023

Dropbox will no longer offer unlimited storage on its Advanced plan due to a growing number of users abusing the policy for unacceptable use cases including cryptocurrency mining. —Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 25 Aug. 2023

There’s a corn pit, giant slides, a trike track, playgrounds, gem mining and more. —Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023

While China dominates rare-earth mining, the U.S. has one lone operational mine. —Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing mining

• data mining

• data mining

Kids Definition

mining

noun

min·​ing

ˈmī-niŋ

: the process or business of working mines