mining

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: min=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

mining, n. [See Mine, v. i.].

 The act or business of making mines or of working them.  [1913 Webster]

mining, a. 

 Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.  [1913 Webster]

Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.

THESAURUS

mining

architecture, assembly, avulsion, building, casting, coal mining, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, cutting out, deepening, depression, deracination, devising, digging, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, elaboration, engraving, enucleation, eradication, erection, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, gold fever, gold mining, gold rush, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, indentation, lowering, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, molding, placer claim, placer mining, prefabrication, preparation, pressing out, probing, processing, producing, pulling, quarrying, raising, refining, removal, ripping out, shaping, sinkage, sinking, smelting, squeezing out, strip mining, tunneling, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, workmanship, wresting out