Definition of Mining

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Definition of Mining
	Mining 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. Related Definitions: Act, As, Business, Engineer, Machinery, Making, Mine, Mining, Of, Or, Pertaining, Region, The, Them, To, Working

Mining Quotations

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
Stewart Udall

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
Margot Kidder

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
Ann Macbeth

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

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
Eva Herzigova

The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.
Kevin Richardson

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

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.
Tim Murphy

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
Martin C. Smith

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
James W. Black

Mining Translations

mining in Afrikaans is mynbou
mining in Dutch is mijnbouw
mining in French is minier
mining in German is Bergbau
mining in Swedish is bergsbruk, gruvdrift

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