Topic outline of mining

:"For a more comprehensive list, see the List of mining topics."

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, copper, gold, silver, diamonds, iron, precious metals, lead, limestone, magnesite, nickel, phosphate, oil shale, rock salt, tin, uranium and molybdenum. Any material that cannot be grown from agricultural processes, or created artificially in a laboratory or factory, is usually mined. Mining in a wider sense comprises extraction of any non-renewable resource (e.g., petroleum, natural gas, or even water).

The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to mining:

Essence of mining

: "Main article: Mining"

*Extractive metallurgy
*Mineral exploration
*Mining engineering
*Ore
*Ore dressing
*Ore genesis
*Overburden
*Prospecting
*Tailings
*Resource extraction
*Vein (geology)

Types of mining

*Surface mining
*Sub-surface mining

Mining techniques

* Alpha Hydraulic Diggings
* Borehole mining
* Box cut
* Deepsea mining
* Dredging
* Drift mining
* Fire-setting
* Glory hole (petroleum production)
* Heap leaching
* Hydraulic mining
* In-situ leach
* Landfill mining
* Longwall mining
* Mine reclamation
* Mountaintop removal mining
* Omega Hydraulic Diggings
* Open-pit mining
* Placer mining
* Quarrying
* Quartz reef mining
* Retreat mining
* Room and pillar
* Shaft mining
* Shrinkage stope mining
* Slope mining
* Strip mining
* Sulfide mining
* Underground mining (hard rock)
* Winding tower

Materials mined

Some examples of materials that are extracted from the earth by mining include:

* Bauxite
* Chromite
* Coal
* Copper
* Diamonds
* Iron
* Lead
* Limestone
* Magnesite
* Marble
* Molybdenum
* Nickel - see Nickel extraction and purification
* Phosphate
* Precious metals
** Gold - see Gold mining
** Silver - see Silver mining
* Oil shale - see Oil shale extraction
* Sand - see Sand mining
* Slate - see Slate industry
* Rock salt
* Tin
* Uranium

Mining equipment

* Archimedes' screw
* Air classifier
* Beam engine
* Bucket-wheel excavator
* Dragline
* Dredge
* Drilling rig
* Miner's canary
* Excavator
* Loader (equipment)
* Man engine
* Power shovel - also see Steam shovel
* Pumpjack
* Safety lamp
* Subsea
* Trommel
* Wellhead
* Wheel tractor-scraper
* Winding engine

Mining hazards and safety

* Acid mine drainage
* Bootleg mining

* Coal mining debate
* Damp (mining)
** After damp
** Black damp
** Fire damp
** Stink damp
** White damp
* Energy law
* Mine disaster
* Mine exploration
* Mine fire
* Mine rescue
* Mining accident
* Mining induced subsidence

History of mining

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* Cornish stamps
* Davy lamp
* De re metallica
* Fire-setting
* Freeminer
* Geordie lamp
* Gold rush
* History of coal mining
* Hurrying
* Hushing
* Mining innovations during the Industrial Revolution
* School of mines

Mining, by country

* Bentonite production, by country
* Bismuth production, by country
* Feldspar production, by country
* Fluorite production, by country
* Manganese production, by country
* Mine production of gold, by country
* Uranium production, by country

The future of mining

* Asteroid mining
* Space mining

Other mining terms and topics

* Biomining
* Deformation monitoring
* Manto ore deposits
* Mineral
* National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
* National Mining Hall of Fame
* Ore grade

Mining scholars

* Georg Agricola - author of De re metallica
* Harrison Schmitt - American geologist, astronaut, retired senator
* Paul Worsey
* Richard Redmayne
* Robert Hunt (scientist)
* Ronald F. Tylecote
* Russell Walter Fox

Leaders and innovators in mining

* Archimedes - invented the Archimedes screw
* Charles Steen
* Daniel Guggenheim
* Ed Schieffelin
* George Stephenson - inventor of the Geordie lamp
* Henry Beecher Dierdorff - American inventor of mining equipment
* Herbert Hoover
* Horace Austin Warner Tabor
* Humphry Davy - inventor of the Davy lamp
* Meyer Guggenheim
* Paddy Martinez
* William Boyce Thompson
* William Reid Clanny - inventor of the first safety lamp

Mining lists

: "Main article: List of mining topics"

*List of diamond mines
*List of mining companies
*List of uranium mines

See also

* Billy Elliot
* Brassed Off
* European Route of Industrial Heritage
* National Coal Mining Museum for England
* National Mining Hall of Fame
* Scientific drilling
* Well drilling
* Water mining

External links

* [http://www.mining-journal.com/Mining_101.aspx Mining 101]
* [http://www.mininglife.com/glossary/a.asp Glossary of terms]
* [http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/11/04713485/0471348511.pdf Introduction to Mining]
* [http://kids.mongabay.com/lesson_plans/lisa_algee/mining.html What is mining?]
* [http://www.mininghall.com/minerals/mining.htm Mining]