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  • present participle of mine.
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mining

[mahy-ning] / ˈmaɪ nɪŋ /


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Now, an American mining company, Contango Silver & Gold, is pushing to build a mine for gold and other metals on private land in the middle of the park.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

But an American mining company is pushing to build a mine for gold and other metals on private land in the middle of the park.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Janice grew up in a mining community in Pennsylvania, while he originally came from Pittsburgh, an industrial city with a strong history of mining, steel and manufacturing - just like Wrexham.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Since mining got underway, "the water of the river is not drinkable; you can't even wash your body with that water", he told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

If she wanted to learn about the mining operation, this was the place to do it.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

Nowhere for me, in these extensive minings and siftings.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

He had no genius for the tactics of intrigue; your reconnoiterings, and marchings, and countermarchings, sappings, and minings, assaults, sometimes surrenders, and sometimes repulses.

From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield




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