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

To obtain the copper ore, Resolution, which is owned by multinational companies Rio Tinto and BHP, plan to use a method known as block cave mining, in which tunnels are drilled beneath the ore body and then collapsed, leaving the ore to be moved to a crushing facility. —Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 16 Aug. 2025

What’s more, Trump has ordered the Forest Service to change its priorities and emphasize logging, mining and oil and gas drilling on federal lands, rather than making fire resistance its top task. —Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025

The Trump administration also recently signed into law the U.S. president's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a package that is favorable to mining and oil and gas companies. —Sam Meredith, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2025

Through it sail container ships, oil tankers, bulk carriers transporting minerals and ores, and vessels servicing oil, gas and mining operations in Alaska and Siberia. —Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing mining

• data mining

Rhymes for mining

• dining
• fining
• lining
• pining
• seining
• shining
• signing
• twining
• vining
• whining
• aligning
• assigning

Kids Definition

mining

noun

min·​ing

ˈmī-niŋ

: the process or business of working mines