How to Use mining in a Sentence

mining

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  • Mud streaked with mining muck clotted the soles of our boots.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Hayes has blown into the mining town of Watts Parish in Wyoming, in need of some rest off the range.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
  • The road passes the mining towns of Clifton and Morenci and curves around one of the world’s largest open pit mines.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
  • After the end of apartheid and the collapse of mining, fortunes have changed for men like Mr. Stoltz.
    — Lynsey Chutel Joao Silva, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • But even in the best of times coal mining was a boom-and-bust industry tied to the health of the wider economy.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
  • Then, last year, the water pump the mining company had built for the villagers broke.
    — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Travel and leisure stocks led the losses, down 0.4%, while mining stocks rose 0.6%.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
  • So at least the marine life there wouldn't get overfished and there wouldn't be deep sea mining there.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Then came the Gold Rush, with hydraulic mining that choked creeks with gravel.
    — Catrin Einhorn Max Whittaker, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Maine’s mineral mining laws are among the strictest in the country.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
  • But mine opponents have urged the agency to act to stop large-scale mining in the region.
    — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • But mining in forests runs the risk of undermining both of these strategies at the same time.
    — Astha Rajvanshi, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Much of the mining and processing of these metals is based in just a few countries.
    — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The shaft in question is one of roughly 300 mines in the Castle Dome mining district.
    — Erika Mailman, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a corn pit, giant slides, a trike track, playgrounds, gem mining and more.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Globe Globe, like many Western cities, was founded as a mining town in 1876.
    — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The ready-mix concrete plant would be allowed to be open the same hours as the mining operation.
    — Judy Pochel, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2023
  • The small town of Alderly Edge has been a mining destination since the Bronze Age.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2022
  • To the right was the rival community, the one involved in gold mining.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Opaque mining and arms deals are frequently part of the package.
    — Joseph Siegle, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The computers power a process called proof-of-work mining.
    — By Andrew R Chow/granbury, Texas, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • The next halving — an event that cuts the supply of bitcoin and reward for mining it — is looming in April.
    — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • And Pixar does a fantastic job mining humor out of this fact.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 16 June 2022
  • Gold mining is a key concern, as are the oil and timber industries.
    — Time, 20 July 2023
  • Its Main Street, still with the rugged good looks of a 19th-century western mining town, and world-class skiing are big draws.
    — Kayleigh Kulp, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The town was established in 1888, and the exclusive resort blends the charm of an old mining town with the comforts of today.
    — Jennifer Broome, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Holes also play along and across old mining cuts and Little Payne Creek, the water source from which Streamsong got the first half of its name.
    — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • To answer the call, some states have passed laws to protect crypto mining’s access to huge amounts of power.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • They were found in a peat bog in northeastern Greece near the island of Thasos, an ancient hub for silver mining and metalwork.
    — Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
  • New ways of life in rural Colorado On the Western Slope, ranching and farming — along with the once-prominent mining and coal industries — have receded.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 Jan. 2025

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