unmined
Americanadjective
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(of ore) not taken out of the earth.
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(of an area of land) not having had any explosive devices set or buried in it.
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(of something abstract) not fully explored for all its benefits or useful elements.
Example Sentences
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Copenhagen-based Pandora will launch a collection using unmined gems in North America this month, as it hopes to attract younger shoppers with cheaper and more sustainable stones guaranteed not to have come from conflict zones.
From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2022
They then ran an empirical analysis, and concluded that unmined gold can still be a valuable investment.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022
Foreign-language content is a vast unmined frontier for Hollywood.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
The area northeast of Boise contains the largest unmined deposit of molybdenum in the world, the company said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
Most odd to contemplate; this glassy barren, nonproducing, uncultivated and unmined, waste and sterile, was yet a better money-maker than the best placer or the richest loam land of all Hillsboro.
From Stepsons of Light by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
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