mining engineer

[mahyn-ing en-juh-neer]

noun

1. a professional trained in mining engineering.

Example Sentences

Above all, the U.S. and its allies must solve the talent issue by training thousands of materials scientists, metallurgists and mining engineers.

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He left school at 16 years of age to become a mining engineer.

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Hoover was a self-made man, having earned a degree in engineering as a member of the first graduating class of Stanford University and making a fortune as a mining engineer.

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In the 1960s, an American mining engineer named John Mero publicized a tantalizing idea: that these nodules were an untapped fortune ready for the taking.

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Her father was a mining engineer and native New Yorker who settled in Spokane after a stop in Vancouver, B.C.

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