mining

Speech parts

1. mining - Noun

2. mining - Adjective

3. mining - Verb

Meaning

of Mine

The act or business of making mines or of working them.

Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.

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Examples

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit. Barbara Castle

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. Billy Bragg

This is senseless cruelty. It must stop forthwith... I am told that people kill albinos and chop their body parts, including fingers, believing they can get rich when mining or fishing. Jakaya Kikwete

Instead of speeding up growth, colonial activities such as mining and cash-crop farming speeded up the decay of "traditional” African life. In many parts of the continent, vital aspects of culture were adversely affected, nothing better was substituted, and only a lifeless shell was left. Walter Rodney

We heard moving accounts from two working miners about just what they have to face as they try to make their way to work. The sheer bravery of those men and thousands like them who kept the mining industry alive is beyond praise. "Scabs” their former workmates call them. Scabs? They are lions! Margaret Thatcher

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. Allan Savory

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