mining engineer

[mahyn-ing en-juh-neer]

noun

1. a professional trained in mining engineering.

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon

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

From Seattle Times

In the 1930s, paralyzed mining engineer Herbert Everest complained about the weight of his heavy wheelchair to another engineer, Henry Jennings.

From National Geographic