- present participle of mine.
mining
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Commitment of at least $1 billion for mining and processing projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The mining would be conducted by Carlsbad-based California Carbonates Inc., with operations expected to last until at least 2175.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Cooperation on mining and processing in the country, one of Central Asia's most mineral-rich.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The area has been a focus of a government crackdown on illegal mining, with soldiers deployed alongside police to tackle criminal networks operating around abandoned mine shafts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
“What I’m asking you is do you want to be a mining engineer?” he demanded.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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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
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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
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
Nowhere for me, in these extensive minings and siftings.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
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