mining engineer
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- Specialized
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ingeniero de minas
- The mining engineer designed a plan to safely extract resources from the site.
She was a working mother before that concept even existed, and she managed to put him through MIT and he became a mining engineer.
- She was a working mother before that concept even existed, and she managed to put him through MIT and he became a mining engineer.
Examples
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Prior to the war, he was a mining engineer, and his home is Denver, Colorado.
Fiction book (1990) -
He's looking for mining engineers.
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You call yourself a mining engineer?
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I'm actually a mining engineer by trade.
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He called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating.
Blog text (19) -
He's a mining engineer.
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"We met our neighbor, a Swedish mining engineer, who was blasting into the side of the mountain," explained Cathy Clark.
Blog text (20) -
He was by profession a mining engineer, so he revealed to Root, en route to a contract on Thuban XIV.
Fiction book (1992) -
My information came from oral contacts, primarily Professor S. Wilson, retired from New Mexico Tech, and Bob Evelyth, a mining engineer with New Mexico's Bureau of Mines.
Academic text (2016) -
The Steepbank project has involved the purchase of additional mine equipment and some retrofitting of existing equipment, according to Mario DeCrescentis, a mining engineer and director of bitumen production at Suncor.
Academic text (1998)
How Experienced
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person trained in engineering principles applied to mines' is directly and transparently composed from 'mining' (the industry/activity of extracting minerals) + 'engineer' (a skilled professional who designs and maintains systems). This noun‒noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern for occupational titles, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Mining engineer comes from the simple image of an engineer working in mining: mining is taking minerals from the ground and an engineer is a trained person who plans and builds machines, tunnels and safety measures. So a mining engineer today is someone trained to plan, build and run mines to find and remove minerals safely.