mineral extraction

1. 1.

   crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques

   Synonymsmineral processingmineral dressingore processingore dressingbeneficiation

   Broaderextraction

Questions about mineral extraction

What does mineral extraction mean?

mineral extraction means "crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques".

What is another word for mineral extraction?

Close synonyms include mineral processing, mineral dressing, ore processing, ore dressing, beneficiation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mineral extraction a common word?

mineral extraction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.