Sentence examples for was mined from inspiring English sources
verb
To remove (ore) from the ground.
- Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
He said the soapstone was mined nearby.
Really, we would like to be able to get a mica that was mined correctly.
In places it was mined or littered with unexploded rockets, shells and bombs.
The mining tradition is celebrated at the Woodhorn Museum, where coal was mined for 80 years.
At the time, uranium was mined as a derivative of gold and diamonds.
The terrain was mined, so landing was a careful process, and he encountered sporadic gunfire.
Manganese ore was mined at Forari until deposits were exhausted in 1979.
Coal was discovered in the region in 1876 and was mined on a small scale.
Tin was mined in Cornwall for at least 3,000 years.
According to government figures 44,202 metric tons of tin was mined in 2012.
Peat is used as fuel and fertilizer, and in Soviet times, it was mined around here.
