Mineral mining

Mineral mining

The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth for economic interests.

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centrocline

Mining; General mining

An equidimensional basin characteristic of cratonic areas, in which the strata dip to a central low point. The term is little used in the United States. Compare: pericline. Ant. quaquaversal.

Cenozoic

Mining; General mining

An era of geologic time, from the beginning of the Tertiary period to the present. (Some authors do not include the Quaternary, considering it a separate era.) The Cenozoic is considered to have ...

Mesozoic

Mining; General mining

An era of geologic time, from the end of the Paleozoic to the beginning of the Cenozoic, or from about 225 million years to about 65 million years ago.