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gold mining ExamplesWord Origin noun
- the act or process of mining gold.
Origin of gold mining First recorded in 1555–65 Examples from the Web for gold mining Contemporary Examples of gold mining
In Peru, the government has issued a state of emergency in some provinces over public reaction to U.S. gold-mining concessions.
Leslie H. Gelb on a World in Crisis—and What Obama Should Do
Leslie H. Gelb
December 14, 2011
Historical Examples of gold mining
It is one of the most valuable of metals, especially in a gold-mining country.
Bret Harte
Gold-mining has been started on the Amgu, a tributary of the Amur.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 6
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We are bent on gold-mining, and we have bought a concession from this King Koffee.
F.S. Brereton
Gold-mining has taken a big jump forward since that was found out.
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Obuassi, in the south-west, is the centre of the gold-mining industry.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7
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