1
: the process or business of working mines
2
: the activity or process of searching through large amounts of information for specific data or patterns
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Exploiting loopholes While the continent is believed to hold vast deposits of oil, gas, copper and other valuable minerals, mining is effectively banned by treaty amendment until 2048.
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The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Herbert Hoover became a multimillionaire through his ownership of Burmese silver mines, and by earning royalties from sales of a textbook on mining engineering, according to the Miller Center at University of Virginia.
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—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
Oatman was a gold mining camp founded in the early 1900s and named after Olive Oatman, a girl who’d been taken by the Mojave people and lived among them for years before returning to white society.
—Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Those problems were supercharged when doubt emerged about the governance standards of Ellison, a rough and ready New Zealander, who took Australian mining by storm in the 1990s initially as a service provider specialising in rock crushing and later as a direct investor in mines.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Herbert Hoover became a multimillionaire through his ownership of Burmese silver mines, and by earning royalties from sales of a textbook on mining engineering, according to the Miller Center at University of Virginia.
10.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
Oatman was a gold mining camp founded in the early 1900s and named after Olive Oatman, a girl who’d been taken by the Mojave people and lived among them for years before returning to white society.
—Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Those problems were supercharged when doubt emerged about the governance standards of Ellison, a rough and ready New Zealander, who took Australian mining by storm in the 1990s initially as a service provider specialising in rock crushing and later as a direct investor in mines.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Mining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mining. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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