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Noun: mineral extraction
  1. Crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques
    - mineral processing, mineral dressing, ore processing, ore dressing, beneficiation

Derived forms: mineral extractions

Type of: extraction

Encyclopedia: Mineral extraction

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