mining

See also: Mining

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ

Noun

mining (countable and uncountable, plural minings)

2. The activity of removing valuable resources (often minerals) from the earth.

   gold mining

3. (figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.

   His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.

   • 1740, John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Life of the Reverend Jonathan Swift [Introduction]:

     […] the fabrick, however weak by the delicacy of its composition, would not have fallen so soon, if the foundation had not been injured by the slow minings of regret and vexation.

4. (military) The activity of placing mines (the explosive devices).
5. (cryptocurrencies) Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof of work.
   • 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Kazakhstan became last year the world’s second-largest centre for bitcoin mining after the United States, according to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, after China clamped down on crypto mining activity.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

Derived terms

• alluvial mining
• antimining
• argument mining
• audio mining
• biomining
• coalmining
• cryptomining
• data mining
• defensive mining
• demining
• drift mining
• duomining
• fetish mining
• hydraulic mining
• hydromining
• knowledge mining
• mining bee
• mining camp
• mining community
• mining engineer
• mining engineering
• mining pool
• mining town
• nonmining
• offensive mining
• open-pit mining
• pitch mining
• postmining
• process mining
• quartz mining
• quote mining
• reality mining
• robo-mining
• strip-mining
• strip mining
• surface mining
• urban mining

Descendants

• → Russian: ма́йнинг (májning)

Translations

activity of removing valuables from the earth

• Afrikaans: mynbou (af)
• Arabic: تعدين
• Armenian: արդյունահանում (ardyunahanum), հանքային գործ (hankʻayin gorc), հանքարդյունաբերություն (hy) (hankʻardyunaberutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: разработване на мина (razrabotvane na mina)
• Catalan: mineria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 採礦 / 采矿 (zh) (cǎikuǎng), 礦業 / 矿业 (zh) (kuàngyè), 採礦業 / 采矿业 (zh) (cǎikuàngyè)

• Czech: hornictví (cs) n, těžba (cs) f
• Danish: minedrift (da) c
• Dutch: mijnbouw (nl) m
• Finnish: kaivostoiminta (fi), louhiminen (fi), louhinta (fi)
• French: extraction minière, exploitation minière f
• Galician: minería f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bergbau (de) m
• Greek: όρυξη (el) f (óryxi), εξόρυξη (el) f (exóryxi)
• Gujarati: ખાણકામ (khāṇkām)
• Hungarian: bányászat (hu)
• Indonesian: pertambangan (id)
• Irish: mianadóireacht f
• Italian: estrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 採鉱 (ja) (さいこう, saikō), 鉱業 (ja) (こうぎょう, kōgyō)
• Korean: 광업 (ko) (gwang'eop)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: рударство n (rudarstvo)
• Malay: perlombongan
• Malayalam: ഖനനം (ml) (khananaṁ)
• Māori: mahi huke
• Mongolian: уурхай (mn) (uurxai)
• Polish: górnictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: mineração (pt) f
• Russian: добы́ча (ru) f (dobýča), го́рное де́ло (ru) n (górnoje délo)
• Serbo-Croatian: rudarstvo (sh) n
• Slovak: baníctvo n
• Spanish: minería (es) f
• Swedish: brytning (sv) c, gruvdrift (sv) c
• Ukrainian: гірни́цтво n (hirnýctvo), гірни́ча спра́ва f (hirnýča správa)
• Vietnamese: khai thác mỏ

figuratively

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 挖掘 (zh) (wājué), 開採 / 开采 (zh) (kāicǎi)

• Finnish: louhinta (fi), etsintä (fi)
• Russian: добы́ча (ru) f (dobýča)
• Swedish: grävande (sv) n

military

• Bulgarian: миниране n (minirane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佈設地雷 / 布设地雷 (bùshè dìléi)

• Finnish: miinoitus (fi)
• Greek: ναρκοθέτηση (el) f (narkothétisi)
• Macedonian: минирање n (miniranje)
• Russian: мини́рование (ru) n (minírovanije)
• Swedish: minering c
• Ukrainian: мінува́ння n (minuvánnja)

creation of new units of cryptocurrency

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 挖礦 / 挖矿 (zh) (wākuàng)

• Finnish: louhiminen (fi), louhinta (fi)
• Russian: ма́йнинг (ru) m (májning)
• Swedish: brytning (sv) c, utvinning (sv) c

Verb

mining

1. present participle and gerund of mine

Middle English

Noun

mining

1. alternative form of mynnynge

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English meaning.

Noun

mining

1. meaning