What does Mining mean?
Definitions for Mining
ˈmaɪ nɪŋmin·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
mining, excavationnoun
the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
mining, minelayingnoun
laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment
Wiktionary
miningnoun
The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
gold mining.
miningnoun
Any extractive activity.
His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
miningnoun
The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
Wikipedia
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials from the Earth and other astronomical objects. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory. Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, chalk, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. Mining in a wider sense includes extraction of any non-renewable resource such as petroleum, natural gas, or even water. 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 or restoration of the land after the mine is closed. Mining materials are often obtained from ore bodies, lodes, veins, seams, reefs, or placer deposits. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is dependent on investment, labor, energy, refine and transportation cost. Mining operations can 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; however, the outsized role of mining in generating business for often rural, remote or economically depressed communities means that governments often fail to fully enforce such regulations. Work safety has long been a concern as well, and where enforced, modern practices have significantly improved safety in mines. Unregulated or poorly regulated mining, especially in developing economies, frequently contributes to local human rights violations and resource conflicts.
ChatGPT
mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals, metals or other geological materials from the earth, typically from an ore body, lode, vein, or seam. The process involves different operations like drilling, blasting, excavating, crushing, grinding, and processing these minerals for further use or sale. This can be done on the surface (open-pit mining) or underground (shaft mining). The field encompasses numerous techniques and applications, including coal mining, gold mining, diamond mining, etc., and also has significant environmental and social impact.
Webster Dictionary
Mining
of Mine
Miningverb
the act or business of making mines or of working them
Miningadjective
of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region
Etymology: [See Mine, v. i.]
Wikidata
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner. Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal and oil shale, gemstones, limestone, and dimension stone, rock salt and 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 stone and metal has been done 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. The nature of mining processes creates a potential negative impact on the environment both during the mining operations and for years after the mine is closed. This impact has led to most of the world's nations adopting regulations to moderate the negative effects of mining operations. Safety has long been a concern as well, and modern practices have improved safety in mines significantly.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Mining
mī′ning, n. the art of forming or of working mines: the work of a miner.—adj. of or pertaining to mines: of burrowing habits.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
mining
In military affairs, is the art of blowing up any part of a fortification, building, etc., by gunpowder. The art of mining requires a perfect knowledge both of fortifications and geometry; and by these previous helps, the engineer may be qualified to ascertain correctly the nature of all manner of heights, depths, breadths, and thicknesses; to judge perfectly of slopes and perpendiculars, whether they be such as are parallel to the horizon, or such as are visual; together with the true levels of all kinds of earth. To which must be added, a consummate skill in the quality of rocks, earths, masonry, and sands; the whole accompanied with a thorough knowledge of the strength of all sorts of gunpowder.
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The numerical value of Mining in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
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The numerical value of Mining in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Mining in a Sentence
It takes a brave soul and deep pockets to buy these mining stocks when they're this heavily down.
After careful consideration, the NSW Government has determined that coal mining under these highly fertile black soil plains... poses too great a risk for the future of this food-bowl and the underground water sources that support it.
Fifteen years ago, U.S. mining was thought to be a dead industry, but now it's a profitable area for us.
It is not satisfactory to have doubts about the accuracy of steel production statistics, particularly for a country as large as China with its importance to the global mining sector and steel supply, how can the authorities make meaningful decisions about investment, rationalisation, emissions control, privatisation issues for an industry in which there is no consensus about the most basic statistic - the level of output?
Mali has established a mining sector that, since 2002, produces 50 tonnes of gold per year. With resources of 800 tonnes and production at that rate, we have enough for another 15 years.
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- hornictví, těžbaCzech
- minedriftDanish
- BergbauGerman
- ναρκοθέτησηGreek
- mineríaSpanish
- kaivostoimintaFinnish
- extraction minièreFrench
- արդյունահանում, հանքային գործ, հանքարդյունաբերությունArmenian
- 採鉱, 鉱業Japanese
- 광업Korean
- gruvedriftNorwegian
- górnictwoPolish
- mineraçãoPortuguese
- mineritRomanian
- го́рное де́ло, добы́ча, мини́рованиеRussian
- rudarstvoSerbo-Croatian
- baníctvoSlovak
- gruvdrift, brytningSwedish
- சுரங்கTamil
- khai thác mỏVietnamese
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