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Mining

noun

The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth. Synonym: excavation.

Laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment. Synonym: minelaying.

Mine

verb

(past & past part. mined; pres. part. mining)

Get from the earth by excavation.

Lay mines.

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... mining towns could easily be reached by train from the city. In these towns many people came and went without notice or comment. Dorian spent nearly a week in one of them, but he found no clue. He went to another. The girl would necessarily have ...

— Dorian • Nephi Anderson

... When the Year's mining is concluded, the barrels of black-lead are brought to market, and the mode of effecting the sales was described by Dr. Faraday some years ago to be as follows: A market is held on the first Monday of every ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... slavery no longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities it put upon their communities? I look hopefully to the continuance of our protective system and to the consequent development of manufacturing and mining enterprises in the States hitherto wholly given to agriculture as a potent influence in the perfect unification of our people. The men who have invested their capital in these enterprises, the farmers who have felt the benefit of their neighborhood, ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... "Spanish Carthage" (Cartagena) was established by Hasdrubal on the only good harbour along the south coast, containing the splendid "royal castle" of its founder. Agriculture flourished, and, still more, mining in consequence of the fortunate discovery of the silver-mines of Cartagena, which a century afterwards had a yearly produce of more than 360,000 pounds (36,000,000 sesterces). Most of the communities ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... been induced, on the strength of the story, to furnish stores on credit, or take a contributing interest in the newly found claim; in either case receiving in return only the knowledge that, even in matters connected with gold-mining, humanity is sometimes frail. They had not been averse, however, to pay visits to the Rest and give their support to the proposals the strangers had made, with the characteristic open-handedness of miners, to toast success and thumping returns from the new field. ...

— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott

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