"mineral mining" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about the act of extracting minerals from the earth, either for use in industry or for sale. For example: "The mineral mining industry is an important sector of the economy in many parts of the world."
Oregon's governor, Ted Kulongoski, two senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and congressman Peter DeFazio all asked the United States Department of Agriculture to withdraw the Chetco River from the 1872 Mining Act, thus preventing mineral mining on the river.
Mine reclamation bonds are used in countries with mineral mining to ensure that reclamation of the mined area is completed.
* The nationalization of mineral mining.
While Greenland's traditional way of hunting wild animals is endangered by the melting ice cap, mineral mining is entering a new, potentially lucrative chapter.
For example, this traditional economic view might view automobile manufacturing separately from the mineral mining, petroleum production and workers on which it relies.
Cone crushers are used in the mineral, mining, and aggregate industry for fragmentation of rock materials, minerals and ores.
Newspapers, cities, roads and parks still bear the names of miners, minerals, mining companies and other things related to mining.
Mineral mines, new factories and the High Dam employed villagers who could not stay in Abnoud.
Comfy accommodation and walks to die for, both in beautiful countryside and among the ghostly ruins of vanished mineral mines.
Talc is a naturally occurring mineral, mined from the soil and composed of magnesium, silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen.
When we start the run at the Fluorspar mineral mine, the morning sun is up and it's already fairly hot.
