How to Use mining in a Sentence

mining

noun
  • Mud streaked with mining muck clotted the soles of our boots.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Hayes has blown into the mining town of Watts Parish in Wyoming, in need of some rest off the range.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
  • The road passes the mining towns of Clifton and Morenci and curves around one of the world’s largest open pit mines.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
  • After the end of apartheid and the collapse of mining, fortunes have changed for men like Mr. Stoltz.
    Lynsey Chutel Joao Silva, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • But even in the best of times coal mining was a boom-and-bust industry tied to the health of the wider economy.
    Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
  • Then, last year, the water pump the mining company had built for the villagers broke.
    Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • So at least the marine life there wouldn't get overfished and there wouldn't be deep sea mining there.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Then came the Gold Rush, with hydraulic mining that choked creeks with gravel.
    Catrin Einhorn Max Whittaker, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a corn pit, giant slides, a trike track, playgrounds, gem mining and more.
    Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Globe Globe, like many Western cities, was founded as a mining town in 1876.
    Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The ready-mix concrete plant would be allowed to be open the same hours as the mining operation.
    Judy Pochel, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2023
  • To the right was the rival community, the one involved in gold mining.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Opaque mining and arms deals are frequently part of the package.
    Joseph Siegle, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The computers power a process called proof-of-work mining.
    By Andrew R Chow/granbury, Texas, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • The next halving — an event that cuts the supply of bitcoin and reward for mining it — is looming in April.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Gold mining is a key concern, as are the oil and timber industries.
    Time, 20 July 2023
  • Its Main Street, still with the rugged good looks of a 19th-century western mining town, and world-class skiing are big draws.
    Kayleigh Kulp, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2023
  • To answer the call, some states have passed laws to protect crypto mining’s access to huge amounts of power.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But as the nearby town of Ridgecrest grew and the mining company shrunk, Trona withered.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Its biggest mining shovel weighs nearly 4 million pounds and has a bucket the size of a two-car garage.
    Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Shafer knows that federal and state laws and politicians tend to favor mining.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Norway recently opened the door to deep-sea mining in its waters.
    Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 11 July 2023
  • This location has a rich history of mining and was central to Australia's gold rush in the 1800s.
    Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Lai, a 64-year-old doctor who came from a poor mining family, will take office on May 20.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The small plane hovers low above the scrappy forest canopy, with rivers below colored a murky yellow due to mining waste.
    Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The authors compiled a CCZ checklist of all the species and records to better understand what may be at risk when mining begins.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • Logan Tyler, founder of Basecamp Ouray, helped build this route, which passes through a mining tunnel that cuts through the mountain.
    Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Leadville Boom Days celebrates the Old West with burro races, mining skill contests, gunslingers and a street fair with more than 100 food and craft booths.
    Sarah Kuta, The Denver Post, 21 May 2024
  • The mining sector came under particular pressure in 2018 as the then-president hit European steel and aluminum exports with tariffs.
    Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
  • How about the fact that lithium, a key ingredient in the batteries that store solar and wind power, can fuel environmentally destructive mining?
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024

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