Glossary

Mining is the science, technique, and business of mineral discovery and exploitation. Strictly, the word connotes underground work directed to severance and treatment of ore or associated rock. Practically, it includes opencast work, quarrying, alluvial dredging, and combined operations, including surface and underground attack and ore treatment.

Engineering for mining is the planning and design of mines, taking into account economic, technical, and geologic factors; also supervision of the extraction, and sometimes the preliminary refinement, of the raw material.; mining geology.

I this section, will go on about all the practical mining terms we can use.

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