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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" Quotes from Famous Books

... night the work had gone on. The office on the hill, as well as the executive offices down at the mill, had been cleared out. Documents, cash, books, safe. Everything of real importance had been removed to the citadel power house. The mining of the penstocks had been completed, and left ready to be blown sky high at a moment's notice. Whatever befell, the men who had given their lives to the building of the mills were determined that only a useless husk should fall into the hands ...

— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

... English colliers again, though it causes great inconvenience, may have its good effect. It may be a strong indication that mining in England is getting very deep, and that the nation must exorcise a strict economy in the use of coal, the staple of its wealth and greatness. The lot of the colliers, grubbling all day underground and begrimed with dirt, is one of the hardest; the sacrifice of their lives by accidents ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

... million of copies, which perhaps a million of men and women may read. These articles are copied into a hundred other papers, and they are read in the villages and hamlets; they are read on the ranches and in the mining camps where no sermon ...

— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood

... requires to be thoroughly understood in its great capacities for carrying a large population. There are vast resources yet to be developed, and what has been accomplished in sheep and cattle stations, in copper and lead mining, in wine-growing, in pearl fisheries, besides other important operations, prove that the country has scarcely been tapped, and will be sure to reward those who have the enterprise and industry to become settlers. It is only necessary to substantiate these statements ...

— Explorations in Australia • John Forrest

... vault was quick with them. The dry sand, warmed by the sun, that I had sifted over them, had acted as a hot blanket upon the chilled body of a dying man. When I got rid of the swarm I examined the vault. Both of the terrapins were missing. The sapping and mining was their work. Through the tunnel thus excavated they had regained their liberty, and released a mighty host ...

— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland

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