Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being mined.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being mined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Such as can be mined.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
mined - adjective Worth
mining
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Examples
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In order to be a near-term justification, lunar thorium needs to be minable by something other than bulk processing of the regolith.
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It expects that as early as this month it will be able to expand its confirmed minable reserves to 100 million tons from the current 70 million tons, said Mr. Tan.
Borneo Lumbung Chief Expects Stable Coal Prices Eric Bellman 2011
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In order to be a near-term justification, lunar thorium needs to be minable by something other than bulk processing of the regolith.
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The Bokan area is actually the only known minable occurrence of rare earth elements in Alaska.
China's Rare Earths Export Quota Cuts Triggers Concerns 2010
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The Bokan area is actually the only known minable occurrence of rare earth elements in Alaska.
China's Rare Earths Export Quota Cuts Triggers Concerns 2010
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Yakub Beg was half-conscious, swinging in his fetters, and through that inter-minable day Kutebar and I took turns to prop him up.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Eventually, the guy who used to mend the fence and keep things neat doesn't anymore, and some corporation discovers a vein of a minable resource on the land under the unicorn, and since no one's bothered to come look at the unicorn in a long while, they airlift him to a shabby zoo somewhere in Europe looking to increase its ailing reputation.
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Thus all efforts will be data-minable for efficiency.
Sure I.B.M. Is Smaller. So What? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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It will be noted that 92 percent of the estimated total is represented by coal — a figure which will not be greatly altered by any reasonable adjustments of the estimates of the remaining fuels, but may be considerably altered if the minable amount of coal is less than usually assumed.
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As compared with this the readily minable tar sands of the United States would yield only about 1 billion barrels of oil [19], with a few billion barrels more obtainable from the less minable deposits.
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