Sentence examples for it was mined from inspiring English sources

Oil shale has been used for industrial purposes since the early 17th century, when it was mined for its minerals.

Peat is used as fuel and fertilizer, and in Soviet times, it was mined around here.

In places it was mined or littered with unexploded rockets, shells and bombs.

He said he spent more than $50,000 producing the catalog ($45), which explores how jade was exchanged on trade routes and where it was mined.

Those controls require certificates of origin to state only the place from where a diamond was last exported, not where it was mined.

It was mined by De Beers in South Africa in 1999, before being cut and polished over a period of two years.

Of course it is mined too.

But it was mine.

It was mine.

And it was mine too.

But no — it was mine.