"mining exploration" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of exploring an area to check the potential for mining. For example, "Experts are conducting mining exploration in the area to determine the availability of minerals."
Macdonald faces prosecution over granting a coal mining exploration licence in the Hunter valley to Doyles Creek Mining, a company owned by former mining union official John Maitland, without putting out a tender.
It has issued 29 licenses for mining exploration since 1999.
"The special purpose zones that make up most of the parks still allow mining exploration.
"The Woarani know the forest is being cut down; that there's drilling and mining exploration.
From 2004 to 2011 annual investment in mining exploration in Uganda increased from $5 million to $47 million.
His father retired as the vice president for mining exploration at Noranda, a mining company in Toronto.
A director of French mining explorations in South America, Boussingault became professor of chemistry at the University of Lyon, Fr., and professor of agricultural chemistry at the Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris (1839 87).
The rapid calculation of physicochemical properties of atoms, bonds and molecules is required to process thousands or millions of structures in data mining explorations, or to establish data-driven sound relationships between structure and observable properties.
The rapid access to intrinsic physicochemical properties of molecules is highly desired for large scale chemical data mining explorations such as mass spectrum prediction in metabolomics, toxicity risk assessment and drug discovery.
The geological framework is supported by several geological and geophysical data, especially those resulting from oil and mining explorations in Cordoba province, which enabled the researchers to obtain information about the geological characteristics up to 7000 m deep.
Within their territory derelict or active mining explorations represent risks to surrounding ecosystems, but engineered-based remediation processes are usually too expensive to be an option for the reclamation of these areas.
