gold mining

noun

First recorded in 1555–65

In Peru, the government has issued a state of emergency in some provinces over public reaction to U.S. gold-mining concessions.

They finally took up farming land near what is now Stockton, as gold-mining did not pay.

I have been a “pocket” miner—a sort of gold mining not findable in any but one little spot in the world, so far as I know.

A decade was devoted to gold mining there and during that time he made three trips to Europe.

Around Oroville and along the Feather river may be seen that marvel of gold mining, the electric dredger.

And from that moment it seemed to her that every one she met could talk or think of nothing but Tony going gold-mining.

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