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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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Verb.

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The act or business of making mines or of working them.

Adj.

Of or pertaining to mines;

as,

mining

engineer;

mining

machinery; a

mining

region.

Mining engineering

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ppr.

Digging into the earth, as for fossils and minerals; sapping.

a. Designating the business of digging mines; as the mining districts of Siberia.