mining company
Subterranean resource business
A mining company is a business that extracts minerals, metals, or other geological materials from the earth.
These range from small operations working a single claim to multinational corporations with sites across continents: The mining company laid off hundreds of workers when copper prices fell.
The term covers companies extracting everything from coal and gold to lithium and rare earth elements.
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- open pitSurface-level excavation site
- strip mineSurface-level ore extraction
- excavationAct of unearthing
- oreMetal-bearing rock
shaft · coal · canary in a coal mine · gold · gold rush · drill · pickaxe · tunnel · underground · minerals · mineral rights · extraction · prospector · workers · pit · copper · iron · deposit
- businessesbusiness, bank, bakery, enterprise, firm
- 19th Century Industriessteel mill, textile mill, coal mine, factory, sawmill
- Victorian institutionsworkhouse, poorhouse, almshouse, lunatic asylum, infirmary
mining companyrefinery
Industrial purification facility
smelter · oil refinery · processing plant · steelmaker · end-user
mining companyconsulting firm
Professional advisory business
law firm · advertising agency · healthcare provider · educational institution · creative agency
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