1) De Beers business 2) Excavation 3) Extracting ores 4) Pit activity 5) Production 6) Quarrying 7) Sorting through data
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1) Gad 2) Minelaying 3) Removal
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- the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
- get from the earth; of ores and metals
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Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner. Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. Mining is...
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[military] Mining, landmining or undermining is a siege method which has been used since antiquity against a walled city, fortress, castle or other strongly held and fortified military position. ==Antiquity== The Greek historian Polybius, in his Histories, gives a graphic account of mining and counter mining at the Roman siege of Ambracia: ...
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• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mine • (a.) Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region. • (v. i.) The act or business of making mines or of working them.
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process of extracting useful minerals from the surface of the Earth, including the seas. A mineral, with a few exceptions, is an inorganic substance ... [101 related articles]
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In warfare, military term meaning to drive a tunnel beneath an enemy position. The end of the tunnel is filled with explosives which are then detonated so as to destroy the...
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The process of extracting minerals or metal ore out of a mine or mineral deposit.
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the process or business of extracting valuable or useful solid materials, such as minerals, metals, and coal from the earth
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Min'ing adjective Of or pertaining to mines; as,
mining engineer;
mining machinery; a
mining region.
Mining engineering .
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Min'ing noun [ See
Mine ,
intransitive verb ] The act or business of making mines or of working them.
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Mining is the term applied to the underground engineering process by which minerals are excavated and brought to the earth's surface. That this process in a crude form was known to the ancients is shown by references in the book of Job, the records of the Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the signs of supposed Roman excavations found in Britain. The f...
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[
n] - laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment 2. [n] - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
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noun laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment
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excavation noun the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
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(industry) Click images to enlargeExtraction of minerals from under the land or sea for industrial or domestic uses. Exhaustion of traditionally accessible resources has led to the development of new mining techniques, for example extract...
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The science, technique, and business of mineral discovery and exploitation. Strictly, the word connotes underground work directed to severance and treatment of ore or associated rock. Practically, it includes opencast work, quarrying, alluvial dredging, and combined operations, including surface and underground attack and ore treatment.
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