mining operation

collocation in English

meaningsofminingandoperation

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mining
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmaɪ.nɪŋ/us
/ˈmaɪ.nɪŋ/
the industry or activity of removing substances such as coal or metal from the ground ...
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operation
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɑː.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/
the fact of operating or ...
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(Definition ofminingandoperationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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First, theminingoperationis inherently unsafe.
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It will not be a kind of opencastminingoperation.
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I said that extraction and replacement are oneminingoperation.
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There are others who have expertise that is related to theminingoperation.
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I think that it is theminingoperationitself which is permitted.
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I am led to understand that the retreatminingoperationgives marked advantages in productivity.
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It is a quite different matter from the planning permissions necessary for eachminingoperation.
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Those methods entail a vessel fishing rather like aminingoperation.
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Miningoperationwas started here in 2006.
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In the last years ofminingoperation, development work ceases, which then produces an artificial, temporary profit before closure.
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Within this machine any man engaged inminingoperationmay look wheresoever he can, but he could find no escape.
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Instead, options should be kept open for all types ofminingoperationto be covered by this directive.
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There is a goldminingoperationnorth of the city.
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Retallack was built to support theminingoperationlocated there.
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Traces of the oldminingoperationremain today.
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A surfaceminingoperationwas added in 1946.
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A micaminingoperationwas begun in 1924.
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It would be theminingoperationproper which would have to start if the planning permission is exercised properly before 1979.
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The whole economic set-up was correct, but somebody decided to operate a system that was totally irrelevant to thatminingoperation.
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Further, it is a safety record which, as has been said, compares favourably with that of anyminingoperationin the world.
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Thisminingoperationyielded some 3000 tons of phosphate a year by 1870.
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Not much changed until a small goldminingoperationwas established here in 1911.
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During that same era, it was the location of a large manganeseminingoperation.
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