How to Use mining in a Sentence

mining

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But as the nearby town of Ridgecrest grew and the mining company shrunk, Trona withered.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
• Its biggest mining shovel weighs nearly 4 million pounds and has a bucket the size of a two-car garage.
  — Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
• Another asked about a moose that had recently been hit by a mining truck—weren’t the trucks supposed to stop?
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Highlights along the route include historic mining structures, closed mine shafts, and the grave of the man who discovered silver and gold in the area.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
• Shafer knows that federal and state laws and politicians tend to favor mining.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Norway recently opened the door to deep-sea mining in its waters.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 11 July 2023
• Its northern half had been given over to mining ventures.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• Its revocation was the beginning of the end for Leadville’s mining prosperity—but not for the city itself.
  — James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024