mining

noun

Definition of mining

: the process or business of working mines

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Workers in certain industries—including construction, oil drilling, mining, plastics, and food processing—can be exposed to acrylamide through skin contact or inhalation. — Jenny Splitter, SELF, "How Worried Do You Need to Be About Those Cancer Warnings for Your Coffee?," 13 June 2018 In April, Maryland saw job losses in government; manufacturing; education and health services; financial activites; professional and business services; mining, logging and construction; and leisure and hospitality. — Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, "Maryland unemployment stays at 4.3 percent in April," 18 May 2018 With the violence-prone Boris not exactly the picture of patience, Lucas takes a chartered jet to Mirny, a mining town in Siberia where Pyotr might be hanging out. — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, "Review: Keanu Reeves is stranded in the low-energy romantic thrills of 'Siberia'," 10 July 2018 Lobster to a community in Maine is like coal in a coal mining town. — NBC News, "Trade war threatens to destabilize Maine lobster industry at peak season," 7 July 2018 Mackay sailed for the Pacific Coast, landing in the northern mining town of Downieville, Calif. — Patrick Cooke, WSJ, "‘The Bonanza King’ Review: The Man Who Hit the Mother Lode," 5 July 2018 Godless’’ embraces the tropes of both a rollicking ’50s western and the darkly philosophical anti-westerns of the late ’60s and early ’70s, but with the feminist twist of an 1880s mining town run entirely by women widowed by a silver-mine collapse. — Scott Tobias, BostonGlobe.com, "How TV has brought the western into the 21st century," 5 July 2018 Velasquez in April pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and child abuse charges in the deaths of her children in Superior, a hardscrabble mining town of about 2,900 people some 60 miles east of Phoenix. — CBS News, "Autopsies of 2 kids found dead in Arizona car shows they died of exposure," 3 July 2018 As a lobbyist, Wheeler’s best-paying client was the coal mining firm Murray Energy, which paid the firm $300,000 or more annually from 2009 through 2017, according to records from the Center for Responsive Politics. — Steven Mufson, BostonGlobe.com, "With Andrew Wheeler at the helm, EPA likely to stay the course," 6 July 2018

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