- Outline of mining
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to mining:
Mining – extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Any material that cannot be grown from agricultural processes, or created artificially in a laboratory or factory, is usually mined.
Contents
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
- Slope mining
- Stoping
- 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 industry and Shale oil 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
- Movement and Surveying Radar
- Power shovel - also see Steam shovel
- Pumpjack
- Safety lamp
- Subsea
- Trommel
- Wellhead
- Wheel tractor-scraper
- Winding engine
Mining hazards and safety
- 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
- Main article: History of mining
- 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
Mining in Africa Sovereign
states- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Republic of the Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
States with limited
recognition- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Somaliland
Dependencies and
other territories- Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain)
- Madeira (Portugal)
- Mayotte / Réunion (France)
- Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)
- Western Sahara
Mining in North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago · United States
Dependencies and
other territoriesAnguilla · Aruba · Bermuda · Bonaire · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Curaçao · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Martinique · Montserrat · Puerto Rico · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Martin · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Saba · Sint Eustatius · Sint Maarten · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands
Mining in South America Sovereign states Dependencies and
other territories- Aruba
- Bonaire
- Curaçao
- Falkland Islands
- French Guiana
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Cambodia
- People's Republic of China
- Cyprus
- East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Egypt
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
States with limited
recognition- Abkhazia
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Northern Cyprus
- Palestine
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- South Ossetia
Dependencies and
other territories- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Hong Kong
- Macau
Mining in Europe Sovereign
states- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- (England
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales)
States with limited
recognition- Abkhazia
- Kosovo
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Northern Cyprus
- South Ossetia
- Transnistria
Dependencies
and other territories- Åland
- Faroe Islands
- Gibraltar
- Guernsey
- Jan Mayen
- Jersey
- Isle of Man
- Svalbard
Other entities Mining in Oceania Sovereign states - Australia
- East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Fiji
- Indonesia
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
Dependencies and
other territories- American Samoa
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Cook Islands
- Easter Island
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Hawaii
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Pitcairn Islands
- Tokelau
- Wallis and Futuna
- 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
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
See also
- Billy Elliot
- Brassed Off
- Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation
- European Route of Industrial Heritage
- National Coal Mining Museum for England
- National Mining Hall of Fame
- Salt-concrete
- Scientific drilling
- Well drilling
- Water mining
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