1
: the process or business of working mines
2
: the activity or process of searching through large amounts of information for specific data or patterns
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About half of the fund’s portfolio sits in mining stocks—both gold and non-gold plays like iron miner Rio Tinto (RIO).
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Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
But Greenlandic legislation makes this approach difficult, because mining licenses are temporary and require costly activities on the sites to uphold the licenses.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
Trained initially as an economist, Salgado spent much of his long career documenting the effects of heavy industry on the environment, from a monograph on gold mining in his native Brazil to a book on oil fires in Kuwait.
—Max Saltman, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
The resulting game is a modular, management experience in which each replica tends to a particular part of the mining vessel.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 23 May 2025
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Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
But Greenlandic legislation makes this approach difficult, because mining licenses are temporary and require costly activities on the sites to uphold the licenses.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
Trained initially as an economist, Salgado spent much of his long career documenting the effects of heavy industry on the environment, from a monograph on gold mining in his native Brazil to a book on oil fires in Kuwait.
—Max Saltman, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
The resulting game is a modular, management experience in which each replica tends to a particular part of the mining vessel.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 23 May 2025
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“Mining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mining. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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