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Mining may refer to: Mining , the extraction of geological materials from the Earth. Bitcoin mining , the allocation of processing power for Bitcoin transactions with the expectation of a reward. Data mining , the process of extracting knowledge from a ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mining \Min"ing\, n. [See Mine , v. i.] The act or business of making mines or of working them.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, verbal noun from mine (v.1).

Usage examples of mining.

It was found buried in alluvium and was discovered during the mining operations at Green.

People would complete his mission, even if they must wrest it from his own apostate race, and die Synod had elevated the son of a lowly mining engineer to the primacy of New New Hebrides to oversee that completion.

Just as he could input, store and recite the successive approximations for figuring out where and when to launch radio-transmitter-tagged asteroids toward the nearest mining ship, or toward the Moon itself, once Lawler and Garrick used their computers to calculate those approximations, then transmitted the figures to him in his cabin.

The second new polymer man got clewed in to Mining and Metallurgy on an emergency job when it was discovered that he had worked summers on a barytes washer in Missouri.

A factor which Watson overlooks in his enthusiasm for asteroid mining is that if buckytube composites can be made cheap enough to make a space elevator possible they will entirely replace steel as a structural material.

Steve Edmond had survived to become fairly old and extremely rich, certainly the biggest mining magnate in Ontario.

The dangers of attack, counter-attack, mining, spying, and enfilade gave pamphlet battles a metaphorically military appearance.

Bernath of Amalgamated Mining was in midstream, spitting water and wading one way while her horse went in the other.

On all the islands, the arts mostly practiced by witches, such as midwifery, healing, animal husbandry, dousing, mining and metallurgy, planting and growing spells, love spells, and so on, often invoked or drew upon the Old Powers.

In 1888, he met with Lobengula, a leader of the Ndebele, and through deceit and deliberate mistranslation got him to agree to British mining and colonization of lands between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers.

I can offer immediate access to considerable specialist resources such as forensic labs and database mining, which the police have to outsource anyway.

Sanchez, the ancient widow who was rumored to have murdered her husband in a dust storm sixty-two years before, the Perell twins who -- for unknown reasons -- preferred the old run-down church to the spotless and air-conditioned company chapel on the mining reservation, and the mysterious old man with the radiation-scarred face who knelt in the rearmost pew and never took Communion.

From the start the center was funded by big polluters and trade associations representing the oil, chemical, auto, drug, agribusiness, and mining sectors with gripes against government regulations.

La Culte du Prochain Train, the Cult of the Endless Kiss of the iron mining regions surrounding the Gulf of St.

My grandfather knew this country better than I shall ever know it - driving his cattle up to the gold camps at Nullagine, opening up new territory, prospecting, mining, fishing.