The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mining \Min"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.
Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.
Engineering \En`gi*neer"ing\, n. Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man, whether in structures, machines, chemical substances, or living organisms; the occupation and work of an engineer. In the modern sense, the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise, for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions, may be considered as engineering, including such abstract tasks as designing software ( software engineering).
Note: In a comprehensive sense, engineering includes architecture as a mechanical art, in distinction from architecture as a fine art. It was formerly divided into military engineering, which is the art of designing and constructing offensive and defensive works, and civil engineering, in a broad sense, as relating to other kinds of public works, machinery, etc.
Civil engineering, in modern usage, is strictly the art of planning, laying out, and constructing fixed public works, such as railroads, highways, canals, aqueducts, water works, bridges, lighthouses, docks, embankments, breakwaters, dams, tunnels, etc.
Mechanical engineering relates to machinery, such as steam engines, machine tools, mill work, etc.
Mining engineering deals with the excavation and working of mines, and the extraction of metals from their ores, etc. Engineering is further divided into steam engineering, gas engineering, agricultural engineering, topographical engineering, electrical engineering, etc.
Wikipedia
Mining engineering is an engineering discipline that applies science and technology to the extraction of minerals from the earth. Mining engineering is associated with many other disciplines, such as geology, mineral processing and metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying. A mining engineer may manage any phase of mining operations – from exploration and discovery of the mineral resource, through feasibility study, mine design, development of plans, production and operations to mine closure.
With the process of Mineral extraction, some amount of waste and uneconomic material are generated which are the primary source of pollution in the vicinity of mines. Mining activities by their nature cause a disturbance of the natural environment in and around which the minerals are located. Mining engineers must therefore be concerned not only with the production and processing of mineral commodities, but also with the mitigation of damage to the environment both during and after mining as a result of the change in the mining area.
Usage examples of "mining engineering".
To have you graduate in mining engineering is a way to prepare you for your inheritance.
Al y Cassidro, our headmaster and dean of the mining engineering school, has classes all day long and couldn't make it to greet you himself, so he asked me to do it.
Nils was to start his shining new mining engineering career, beginning as superintendent of the mine that had given birth to Margin.
If your specialty was Chinese art or mining engineering that next job might not be anywhere close by.
Clan, cave and mining engineering notwithstanding, I had very little knowledge to fortify me against the determined curiosity of a friend.
Do not try this remark upon escorts of coarse nature, however, or third-year students of mining engineering.
Orphaned, Hoover was sent to live with an uncle in Oregon and enrolled in the mining engineering program at Stanford University, graduating in 1895.
JACK VANCE was born in 1916 and studied mining engineering, physics and journalism at the University California.
Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining engineering, physics and journalism at the University of California.