Mining

Noun

 * 1) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
 * gold mining.
 * 1)  Any extractive activity.
 * His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
 * 1)  The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode

Derived terms

 * defensive mining
 * offensive mining
 * open-pit mining


 * strip-mining
 * surface mining

Verb
mining



Thesaurus
architecture, assembly, avulsion, building, casting, coal mining, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, cutting out, deepening, depression, deracination, devising, digging, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, elaboration, engraving, enucleation, eradication, erection, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, gold fever, gold mining, gold rush, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, indentation, lowering, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, molding, placer claim, placer mining, prefabrication, preparation, pressing out, probing, processing, producing, pulling, quarrying, raising, refining, removal, ripping out, shaping, sinkage, sinking, smelting, squeezing out, strip mining, tunneling, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, workmanship, wresting out

Noun

 * Croatian:
 * Czech:, těžba
 * Finnish: kaivostoiminta
 * German:


 * Polish:
 * Slovak: baníctvo
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Finnish:

Derived terms

 * data mining

Related terms

 * mine