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  • present participle of mine.
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mining

[mahy-ning] / ˈmaɪ nɪŋ /


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The Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization program provides federal money for returning legacy mining sites to productive use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

China, once a major center for bitcoin trading and mining, banned fundraising through new digital tokens and ordered domestic crypto exchanges to close in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Authorities widened the crackdown in 2021, declaring cryptocurrency transactions illegal and restricting mining.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

By his side, the regional mining and geology director, Souleymane Sanogo, took aim at a climate of indulgence which allows irregular miners to thrive.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Across the mining station, alarms were blaring and lights were flashing red.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

On Capitol Hill, the Reagan Administration was engaged in some belated fence mending with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meantime a cough, the herald of consumption, tormented him, and "the slow minings of the hectic fire" within began to manifest themselves more visibly in days and nights of feverish excitement.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831 by Various

Nowhere for me, in these extensive minings and siftings.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

Nothing would be done on either side but stick-in-the-mud warfare and those trench-raids and minings which had no object except "to keep up the spirit of the men."

From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

And the open goings-forth of it, still more the secret minings and mole-courses of it, were into all places.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle




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