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
Would the unmined gold, which the paper calls "green gold," actually earn money for its investors?
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022
To get to this place, “I think it’s like a delicate operation of excavating from the character what has gone unmined and what is scary to approach,” the director says.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 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
It was only when he drifted into strange and untried fields that he began to chase rainbows, to blow iridescent bubbles, and count unmined gold.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) by Albert Bigelow Paine
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