mining
Definition of mining
: the process or business of working mines
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As energy prices stabilize somewhat, the mining sector -- which includes oil, natural gas, coal and metal ore -- added 6,600 jobs.
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As energy prices stabilize somewhat, the mining sector – which includes oil, natural gas, coal and metal ore – added 6,600 jobs.
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The state estimates the coal mining industry supports about 2,500 Hoosier jobs.
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The president has pledged to reverse decades of decline in coal mining, which now accounts for fewer than 75,000 US jobs.
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Now that Ballmer knows there’s plenty of interest in USAFacts, a new challenge may come from a drying up of the very sources the website is mining.
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The mine was mechanized and expanded, and soon many of Indawgyi’s inhabitants had traded their native villages for squalid mining camps where heroin addiction ran rampant.
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McNeice was a rich kid who'd inherited millions from his family's uranium mining fortune.
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They're now being used to survey perilous locations in the mining and oil industries, among others.
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14th Century
First Known Use of mining
14th century
MINING Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of mining for English Language Learners
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: the process or business of digging in mines to obtain minerals, metals, jewels, etc.
MINING Defined for Kids
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Definition of mining for Students
: the process or business of digging in mines to obtain minerals
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