Word Finder - mining

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To remove (ore) from the ground.

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To dig into, for ore or metal.

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To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).

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To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).

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To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.

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To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.

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(by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.

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To pick one's nose.

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To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

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The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.

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gold mining

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Any activity that extracts or undermines.

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His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.

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The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode

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Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work

Pa never did any mining himself.

Charlie asked, mentioning the area's last major mining operation.

The dust emitted from mining the ore was poisonous in its raw state.

I think we just started a mining business.

Mining is of very considerable importance.

Cattle and sheep are produced in large numbers in some of the provinces, while in others mining forms the chief industry.

The centre of the mining district (Metalla of the itineraries) was probably about 5 m.

Some samples of ore, coal and limestone, obtained in the Mittagong district, with pig-iron and castings manufactured therefrom, were exhibited at the Mining Exhibition in London and obtained a first award.

Upper Hungary and the mining towns were soon in Thbkoly's possession.

The Denver and Rio Grande Western made daily warm-weather trips up the mountain to the mining town of Silverton, 40 miles away.

The lack of employment in factories naturally affected the coal mining industry, and indeed every industry in the states, except those connected with the export trade, was severely affected.

In the mining and woollen industries they have fallen, but have increased in mechanical, chemical, silk and cotton industries.

Finally, under the heads of administration, mine valuation, mining education, accidents, hygiene and mining law, will be discussed matters having important bearing on mining operations.

Special methods of mining are dealt with in the separate articles on Coal, Gold, and other minerals and metals.

Quarrying and ORE-Dressing, which may be considered as branches of mining, are also discussed in separate articles.

Work undertaken to secure this information must be distinguished from prospecting, which is the search for mineral deposits and from development, work undertaken to prepare for actual mining operations.

The risk of failure in mining enterprises is offset by the chances of more than ordinary profits.

The Nord, which serves the rich mining, industrial and farming districts of Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Aisne and Somme, connecting with the Belgian railways at several points.

Over 70,000 men are employed in the gold-mining industry, more than two-thirds of them being engaged in quartz mining.

The satisfactory price obtained during recent years has enabled renewed attention to be paid to copper mining in South Australia, and the production of the metal in 1905 was valued at £470,324.

Turquoises have been found near Wangaratta, in Victoria, and mining operations are being carried on in that state.

Agriculture everywhere expanded, the mining industry revived, and, if it had not been for the low prices of staple products, the visible effects of the crisis would have passed away within a very few years.

Exceptions were made permitting the states to grant bounties on mining and (with the consent of the parliament) on exports of produce or manufactures - Western Australia being for a time partially exempted from the prohibition to impose import duties.

The wide streets are traversed by a system of tramways, which pass through modern suburbs to the mining district about two leagues inland, and on the west a canal enables small vessels to enter the town without using the port.

The opening of the railway enabled it to compete successfully with Alicante, and revived the mining and metallurgical industries, while considerable sums were expended on bringing the coast and land defences up to date, and adding new quays, docks and other harbour works.

Sulphur mining M h 1 supplies large industries of sulphur-refining and grinding, - in spite of American competition.

Textile, building and mining industries show the highest percentage of strikes, since they give employment to large numbers of men concentrated in single localities.

Among the schools may be mentioned the magnificently equipped Rhenish-Westphalian Polytechnic School (built 1865-1870) and the school of mining and electricity, founded in 1897.

It lies in the midst of the great red and brown hematite iron-ore deposits of the Mesabi Range - the richest in the Lake Superior district - and the mining and shipping of this ore are its principal industries.

The mining industry, for which the town was formerly also famous and which embraced tin, silver and cobalt, has now ceased.

The capital of the state is GoYAz, or Villa-Boa de Goyaz, a mining town on the Rio Vermelho, a tributary of the Araguaya rising on the northern slopes of the Serra de Santa Rita.

Notwithstanding the wealth of the country in minerals and metals of all kinds, and the endeavours made by government to encourage mining, including the imposition of protective Mining tariffs even against Finland (in 1885), this and the related and re- industries are still at a low stage of development.

For the petroleum industry and the mining of the Caucasus region, see Caucasia.

Mining in Poland and Siberia are more fully discussed under those headings.'

Chelyabinsk was linked by a transverse line with the middle Urals railway, which connects Perm, the head of navigation in the Volga basin, with Tyumen, the head of navigation on the Ob and Irtysh, passing through Ekaterinburg and other mining centres of the middle Urals.

Its chief industry is the mining of anthracite coal; the principal establishments are railway repair shops, which in 1905 gave employment to 48.9% of all wage-earners engaged in manufacturing.

After this last year the output of the Comstock mines declined on account of the exhaustion of the ore supply, the increased expense of mining at great depths, and the decrease in the price of silver.

Another mining region that attained importance in the early period was the Eureka District, in Eureka county, about 90 m.

With the working out of the deposits in the Comstock region, the mining industry declined, and between 1877 and 1900 there was a period of great depression, in which Nevada fell from first to sixth place among the silver-producing states and Territories.

In May 1900, however, very rich deposits of gold and silver were discovered in Nye county, near the summit of the San Antonio Mountains, and a new era began in Nevada's mining industry.

This discovery gave a new impetus to prospecting in south-western Nevada, and it was soon discovered that the district was not an isolated mining region but was in the heart of a great mineral belt.

Mines and mining claims are exempt from taxation, but a quarterly tax is levied on the net proceeds of mines, and is not to be paid a second time so long as the products remain in the hands of the original producer.

The instrument contained a very unpopular clause taxing all mining property, unproductive as well as productive.

It possesses two Protestant and four Roman Catholic churches, a synagogue, a mining school, a convent, a hospital, two orphanages, and barracks.

Gleiwitz is the centre of the mining industry of Upper Silesia.

The principal mining product is mercury, extracted at Idria, while iron and copper ore, zinc and coal are also found.

A large number of applications for mining concessions have been received since the establishment of the autonomous government.

Michoacan is essentially a mining region, producing gold, silver, lead and cinnabar, and having rich deposits of copper, coal, petroleum and sulphur.

Then he went to San Francisco and secured employment in the office of a mining engineer.

In 1897 he went to Australia as mining engineer for an English syndicate and developed successful mines.