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Mining geology

exploration for, discovery of, and removal of valuable natural resources from the Earth

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 12, 2023
Entity authorityQ3760328 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mining geology is an applied science which combines the principles of economic geology and mining engineering to the development of a defined mineral resource. Mining geologists and engineers work to develop an identified ore deposit to economically extract the ore.

Editorial summary

“Mining geology” enters the record as exploration for, discovery of, and removal of valuable natural resources from the Earth. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mining, geology and exploration can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mining, geology and exploration.
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Why this record matters

“Mining geology” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mining, geology and exploration provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 12, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3760328. The Library of Congress control number is sh85085716. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mining geology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.