mining operations
Underground resource harvesting
Mining operations are the activities involved in extracting minerals, metals, or other geological materials from the earth.
The term covers everything from exploration and excavation to processing and site management: The company suspended mining operations after the accident.
It often appears in regulatory, environmental, and business contexts where the full scope of extraction work is under discussion.
- excavatorsMachines for digging earth
- heavy machineryLarge powered industrial apparatus
- haul trucksEnormous mining transport vehicles
- open pitSurface-level excavation site
- hard rockLoud guitar-driven genre
reclamation · blasting · drills · extraction · ventilation systems · canary · draglines · ore · dredging · mineral rights · waste disposal · environmental impact · crushers · safety audits · hazard assessment · refinery · shaft · tunnel
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, coal, oil
- Canadian ArcticNunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Baffin Island, Yellowknife
- Mining Industrygold miners
- mining termsgold veins, silver veins, drilling, blasting, extraction
- nationalized sectorsrailways, postal service, national bank, national railway, public utilities
- siege warfaresiege, siege tower, siege engine, siege guns, siege warfare
mining operationsfarming
Cultivating land for food
agriculture · crop cultivation · forestry · aquaculture · horticulture
mining operationsland reclamation
Creating ground from water
environmental restoration · reforestation · ecological restoration · habitat restoration · rewilding
mining operationswilderness preservation
Protecting wild areas permanently
land conservation · nature reserves · protected areas · national parks · untouched wilderness