plural of mine

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mine

simple past tense and past participle of mine

An amount sufficient to fill a mine. / (figuratively) A large amount, particularly of something obtained through mining.

plural of mineful

present participle of strip-mine

the mining of gold-bearing quartz

(databases) A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.

Any of very many species of bee, of the genus Andrena, that nest in burrows

The branch of engineering that is applied to mining.