1
: the process or business of working mines
2
: the activity or process of searching through large amounts of information for specific data or patterns
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The sequences set in Kosice (a city in eastern Slovakia), as well as in the tiny mining town where Perla grew up, are particularly realistic, as if they were lensed back in the day.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
Bitcoin mining stocks Mara Holdings and Riot Platforms rose more than 2% each, while crypto trading platforms Coinbase and Robinhood each advanced 4%.
—Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 10 July 2025
The Department of Defense will buy $400 million in MP Materials’ preferred stock, along with a warrant to purchase common stock—investments the mining company will use to build a new rare earth magnet plant, in addition to its Mountain Pass facility in California’s Mojave Desert.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
But Burke, with the mining association, pointed to two recent positive indicators for the industry: more U.S. coal getting exported overseas and a surge in the amount of electricity generated by burning coal during the first four months of 2025 compared with the same period last year.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 July 2025
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
Bitcoin mining stocks Mara Holdings and Riot Platforms rose more than 2% each, while crypto trading platforms Coinbase and Robinhood each advanced 4%.
—Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 10 July 2025
The Department of Defense will buy $400 million in MP Materials’ preferred stock, along with a warrant to purchase common stock—investments the mining company will use to build a new rare earth magnet plant, in addition to its Mountain Pass facility in California’s Mojave Desert.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
But Burke, with the mining association, pointed to two recent positive indicators for the industry: more U.S. coal getting exported overseas and a surge in the amount of electricity generated by burning coal during the first four months of 2025 compared with the same period last year.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 July 2025
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“Mining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mining. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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