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mining

[mahy-ning] / ˈmaɪ nɪŋ /


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In the former mining town, one in six residents lives below the poverty line, according to official data.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Barrick Mining last year reached a $420 million settlement to regain control of a mine in Mali after two years of disputes over taxes and a new mining code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Before the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, metallurgy and mining accounted for roughly 10% of Ukraine's national income and a third of its exports.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

That deal was officially "aimed at assisting the authorities in securing mining sites, improving tax collection mechanisms and curbing cross-border smuggling of minerals", the group's report added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

As did life in much of the area, the region’s economy centered around coal mining.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

On Capitol Hill, the Reagan Administration was engaged in some belated fence mending with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nothing would be done on either side but stick-in-the-mud warfare and those trench-raids and minings which had no object except "to keep up the spirit of the men."

From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

Provided the differences amount not to an insolent opposition of Laws, and Government, or Religion established, as to the essentials of them, such motions and minings are intolerable.

From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by King of England Charles I

Meantime a cough, the herald of consumption, tormented him, and "the slow minings of the hectic fire" within began to manifest themselves more visibly in days and nights of feverish excitement.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831 by Various

And the open goings-forth of it, still more the secret minings and mole-courses of it, were into all places.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle


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