mining

[ˈmaɪnɪŋ]

Definition:
1. The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth.
2. Laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment.

Use 'mining' in a sentence:

1. The engine eliminated water in the mines by driving efficient pumps, which made possible deeper and deeper mining.
2. The companies building the canals to transport coal needed surveyors to help them find the coal deposits worth mining as well as to determine the best courses for the canals.
3. Many cities in the west are mining cities.
4. But, unlike with mining claims, the community takes control of what happens next.
5. The picture of Teotihuacán that emerges is a classic picture of positive feedback among obsidian mining and working, trade, population growth, irrigation, and religious tourism.
6. They are mining for coal.
7. When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker's clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic.
8. The dispute is about wages, working conditions, and the management of the mining industry.
9. Elizabeth I funded two mining expeditions.
10. The business is involved in oil, mining, agriculture, hotels, hospitals, finance and real estate, mostly through his operating companies Corral Group.
11. Banks will still be mining data from your account in order to sell you financial products, including things of little value, such as credit insurance and credit-card protection plans.
12. The canaries in coal mining areas may be an animal threatened by climate change.
13. What made the mining industry safer in the late 1960s?
14. Water ice could enable the creation of a self-sustaining moon base someday, a mining camp perhaps, or a departure point for further space exploration.
15. Mining activities have totally disrupted the traditional way of life of the Yanomami Indians.
16. Mining can be costly in terms of lives.
17. Similar to newly staked mining claims, they are full of potential.
18. The scenes from Malaya include a rubber plantation, Chinese temples, tin mining in Perak, tobacco planting, and pineapple-picking in Penang.
19. Parallel rails had long been used in mining operations to move bigger loads, but horses were still the primary source of power.
20. Mining rose by 9.1%, manufacturing by 9.4% and services by 4.3%.
21. That has the potential to inspire furious debate beyond mining.
22. The new marine reserve, now the largest in the Pacific, will permit no fishing or mining.
23. Mining would pollute the lake and denude the forest.
24. He amassed a fortune from silver mining.
25. They were mining for gold.
26. At first sight it looked less like a capital city than a mining camp.
27. The mining technique is shaky.
28. The Tanzanian government has once again started mining the lake for soda ash, used for making chemicals, glass and detergents.
29. By chemically extracting nickel form the ash, they produced 100 pounds of nickel per acre of land at a total cost per pound slightly above that of current mining.
30. Data mining is used to analyse individuals' buying habits.
31. The engineer examined the engine of the shining mining machine for stomachache.