Mining

Chuquicamata, the largest open pit copper mine in the world, Chile. This article is about mineral extraction. "Mining" can also refer to installing explosive devices. See Mine for other meanings, or Mining, Upper Austria for the village in Austria. Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include bauxite, coal, diamonds, iron, precious me ...