WordNet
n. a company that owns and manages mines
Usage examples of "mining company".
Being a mining company worker, accustomed to rigs and slings, Terl knew his knots.
To push off all the planets it could on Intergalactic, and to bleed the company, there was an Imperial Decree that Intergalactic Mining Company had to own five planets for every one it actively mined.
That ought to have warned Gill, but he was thinking about Tapha and Rafik and worrying that Rafik's wily uncle might somehow hold him on Laboue, and the Li Moon Mining Company Ltd.
The tubing, which stretched from the mining company around the ice shelf and ended three hundred miles from the opposite end, was green.
Just after the Second World War, at thirty-five, he was in London with the right connections for a copper-hungry Britain trying to get its industries back to work, and in 1948 had founded his own mining company.
He had been on a mission for a mining company when his ship's drives were damaged.
Only Land-Rovers and the trucks used by the mining company for transporting workers are allowed.