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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mining
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mining community
▪ She was brought up in a small mining community in North Wales.
data mining
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
gold
▪ It then appeared in the west with concern over, and then opposition to, proposed gold mining.
▪ It was only in the late 1890's that the company extended its activities into gold mining.
▪ In February 1990 the opposition to gold mining went international.
old
▪ At the same time the party continued to contract and disintegrate, even in its old mining and inner-city strongholds.
▪ Along the coast there are several interesting old mining, and fishing villages to visit.
▪ What is worse, beneath the landfill sites there were old mining workings.
opencast
▪ Among the environmental problems related to coal mining, two are considered here: opencast mining and subsidence damage.
▪ Now, all is revealed through Labour's policy decision to ban opencast mining.
▪ Jobs in the opencast sector are at risk from the vendetta against opencast mining conducted by the Labour party.
▪ We will reverse the present planning presumption in favour of opencast coal mining and give top priority to local people and their environment.
proposed
▪ It then appeared in the west with concern over, and then opposition to, proposed gold mining.
▪ This became a national issue focussing on the proposed mining of gold on Croagh Patrick in Co.
▪ Waterford, over proposed andalusite mining at Mount Leinster, near Borris, Co.
▪ Opposition is now beginning to proposed gold mining in Co.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ By the late twentieth century, this area was the focus of mining activity in the county.
▪ Legislation to control mining activity is expected to follow.
▪ Proposals for mining activities are dealt with by the authority responsible for all forms of development control.
▪ Hanson's Peabody subsidiary is criticized for the effects of its coal mining activities on Navajo land in Arizona.
area
▪ Mr. Leigh I agree with the hon. Gentleman to this extent - that the coal mining areas need this money.
▪ The excess mortality was attributed to coal mining and the extensive use of soft coal in the mining areas.
▪ We want these moneys to go to the coal mining areas, many of which are represented by Labour Members.
▪ In Britain, several small towns grew up close to mining areas, though very little is known about them.
▪ During the course of that century and with the extension of the Great Northern Coal field it became a mining area.
▪ The major exceptions have been counties in the mining areas where there has been a basis for Labour support.
▪ There is £100 million available for grants in mining areas.
▪ He speaks as a Conservative representing a coal mining area and he truly speaks up for the industry.
coal
▪ Their solution to the coal mining problem was to recommend a composite long-wall method of working.
▪ Among the environmental problems related to coal mining, two are considered here: opencast mining and subsidence damage.
▪ The excess mortality was attributed to coal mining and the extensive use of soft coal in the mining areas.
▪ The authors thus concluded that the excess mortality noted for gastric cancer was probably related to socioeconomic class rather than coal mining.
▪ Who introduced a Bill - long overdue - to deal with the coal mining subsidence problem?
▪ The Bari lands are also threatened by coal mining, and national oil company Maraven has begun seismic tests in the area.
▪ We want these moneys to go to the coal mining areas, many of which are represented by Labour Members.
▪ The Government must be reminded that the average age of the labour force in the coal mining industry is about 30 years.
community
▪ Before the Norseman, Red Lake was an isolated mining community.
▪ Picketline disorder eventually spilled over into mining communities, which became the sites of major disturbances.
▪ The Government's prime motivation is to carry out an act of revenge on coal miners and coal mining communities.
▪ The target number of jobs should equal those lost from the indigenous mining communities.
▪ Most of us had been born in the mining community.
▪ The loyalty of the women of the mining communities to their menfolk is, of course, legend.
▪ What reason can there be other than the Tory party's vendetta against our coal mining communities?
▪ The four main characters come from a mining community, but they've left it behind.
company
▪ The first of these was the connection between mining companies and the political elite.
▪ The mining company appeared to own or supply everything.
▪ By 1973 this measure was considered inadequate and the government took total control of the mining companies.
▪ Later 43 people were arrested while distributing leaflets which blamed the management of the state-run Coal Enterprise mining company for negligence.
▪ This was given nine months before the bank collapsed and financed Gasco's takeover of Cornish tin mining company St Piran.
▪ A dispute also blew up over attempts by the mining companies to present their case in the local schools.
▪ Three days prior to that, planning applications were submitted by the mining companies.
▪ Despite this seemingly unattractive situation, there was a large influx of mining companies prospecting in the country in the late sixties.
district
▪ The manufacturing and mining district of north Staffordshire has recently been claimed to share the Lancashire trend.
▪ And consider how severely the mining districts were affected in each of the epidemics in Britain.
▪ The wooden stemming rod was clearly safer, yet in every mining district there were those who disregarded the new rulings.
engineer
▪ I can also listen to a conversation between mining engineers and understand ninety-five percent of it, even after all these years.
▪ He had been a mining engineer and away for months at a time.
▪ A distinguished and internationally-known writer and thinker, Serfaty was a mining engineer by profession.
▪ Elliot was one of a new type of mining engineer whose expertise extended to many parts of the industry.
▪ Hatch resigned his appointment in 1892 and went to work as a mining engineer in Johannesburg.
▪ My husband used to be a mining engineer, but we got tired of living abroad, so we bought this place.
industry
▪ I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry, especially at the coalface.
▪ In 1919-20 he served on a number of national committees concerned with the mining industry and ore supplies.
▪ Mr. Marshall Does not that figure underline the Government's commitment to the coal mining industry?
▪ The code, the first of its kind in the mining industry, was aimed at eliminating violence in the mines.
▪ Because Great Britain is not to produce coal nor have any significant mining industry.
▪ The mining industry knows that its long-term security comes only from selling its product to customers at prices they can afford.
▪ The Government must be reminded that the average age of the labour force in the coal mining industry is about 30 years.
▪ The surrounding countryside is quite dramatic with the legacy of the vast lead mining industry still evident.
operation
▪ This clearly implies that the full environmental costs of mining operations should be borne by the operator.
▪ Some of the mining operations show this, and the Fens have Roman canals, embankments, and elaborate water systems.
tin
▪ The driver swears but brakes as yet another tin mining family climb aboard the truck already bulging with people and their belongings.
▪ The new industries A. Earlier this century tin mining declined.
▪ This was given nine months before the bank collapsed and financed Gasco's takeover of Cornish tin mining company St Piran.
▪ From the early period of tin mining to the 1940s women were often concentrators of minerals.
▪ The reclamation venture provides just one example of the resourcefulness which engineers have to display to succeed in tin mining in Cornwall.
▪ Professional Cornishman who resigned the Tory whip in protest at tin mining closures, but was too loyal to tell anyone.
town
▪ Which are the main mining towns today?
▪ How large are the mining towns?
▪ It looks almost as bad as in the mining towns of Yorkshire after the pits had closed.
▪ What are the names of some of the main mining towns?
uranium
▪ Donegal in December 1979 but the story of uranium mining actually begins three years further back.
▪ During the campaign against uranium mining, the legitimacy of the central state was constantly challenged.
village
▪ After 2 kilometres, turn left and follow the signs to the former shale mining village of Philpstoun.
▪ A police Sierra cruised along the A614 near the mining village of Ollerton.
▪ Born in a small mining village near Glenrothes, he has climbed the ladder by learning his craft.
▪ I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties.
▪ The Castle is situated on a tall rocky peak, some four miles above the now-abandoned mining village of Felsbrockenberg.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the mining communities, for decades the only real counterweight to a coup-prone army, are disappearing.
▪ Around the well was an incongruous array of advanced mining machinery and laboratory equipment to analyse and synthesize drugs.
▪ Before the Norseman, Red Lake was an isolated mining community.
▪ Hydrogeochemical maps are being developed as an aid to interpreting environmental problems such as acidification and agricultural and mining pollution.
▪ I do not need the hon. Member for Gordon to lecture me about my affinity with the mining industry.
▪ Picketline disorder eventually spilled over into mining communities, which became the sites of major disturbances.
▪ The Barker family had for many years been involved in mining, with for example, the Champions in their mines in Ireland.
▪ The islanders inhabit the coastal strip only, and subsist almost entirely on royalties from the mining.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mining

Mine \Mine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mined; p. pr. & vb. n. Mining.]

  1. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.

    They mined the walls.
    --Hayward.

    Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers . . . had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. To dig into, for ore or metal.

    Lead veins have been traced . . . but they have not been mined.
    --Ure.

  3. To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.

    The principal ore mined there is the bituminous cinnabar.
    --Ure.

Mining

Mining \Min"ing\, n. [See Mine, v. i.] The act or business of making mines or of working them.

Mining

Mining \Min"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.

Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mining

1520s, verbal noun from mine (v.1).

Wiktionary
mining

n. 1 (senseid en activity of removing solid valuables from the earth) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth. 2 (context figuratively English) Any activity that extracts or undermines. 3 (context military English) The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode vb. (present participle of mine English)

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WordNet
mining

  1. n. the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth [syn: excavation]

  2. laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment [syn: minelaying]

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Wikipedia
Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposits which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner.

Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. Mining is required to obtain any material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or created artificially in a laboratory or factory. Mining in a wider sense includes extraction of any non-renewable resource such as petroleum, natural gas, or even water.

Mining of stones and metal has been a human activity since pre-historic times. Modern mining processes involve prospecting for ore bodies, analysis of the profit potential of a proposed mine, extraction of the desired materials, and final reclamation of the land after the mine is closed.

Mining operations usually create a negative environmental impact, both during the mining activity and after the mine has closed. Hence, most of the world's nations have passed regulations to decrease the impact. Worker safety has long been a concern as well, and modern practices have significantly improved safety in mines.

Levels of metals recycling are generally low. Unless future end-of-life recycling rates are stepped up, some rare metals may become unavailable for use in a variety of consumer products. Due to the low recycling rates, some landfills now contain higher concentrations of metal than mines themselves.

Mining (military)

Military mining, undermining or tunnel warfare is a siege method based on mining techniques which has been used since antiquity against a walled city, fortress, castle or other strongly held and fortified military position. A counter mine is a mine dug to allow defenders to attack miners, or destroy a mine threatening their fortifications.

Mining (disambiguation)

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 data set.
  • Mining (military), a siege tactic.
  • Mining, Austria, a municipality in Upper Austria.
  • Mianning, the Daoguang Emperor, eighth emperor of the Manchurian Qing dynasty.
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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.