Mining | Definition of Mining by MerriamWebster
Mining definition is the process or business of working mines. Recent Examples on the Web. But most scientists work in Cerro de Pasco, a mining town in the Central Andes at a substantially lower altitude, 4300 meters. — Xing Liu, Science Magazine, "At 5100 meters elevation, a Peruvian gold mining town is the world''s highest settlement—and a good place to study how life at extremely low ...