Prospecting vs Mining - What's the difference?
prospecting | mining |
The act of one who prospects.
* 1858 , William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria (page 54)
(senseid) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
(figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.
* (Jonathan Swift)
(military) The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
As verbs the difference between prospecting and mining
is that prospecting is present participle of lang=en while mining is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between prospecting and mining
is that prospecting is the act of one who prospects while mining is (activity of removing solid valuables from the earth) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.prospecting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings , and the price of gold.
mining
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Noun
- gold mining
- His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
- the fabrick, however weak by the delicacy of its composition, would not have fallen so soon, if the foundation had not been injured by the slow minings of regret and vexation.
