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mineable, a.|ˈmaɪnəb(ə)l|
Also 6– minable.
[f. mine v. + -able.]
Capable of being mined (in any sense of the vb.).
1570Levins Manip. 2/46 Myneable, fossilis. 1579–80North Plutarch, Camillus (1595) 144 He beganne to vndermine it (finding the earth all about very minable). 1589Late Voy. Sp. & Port. (1881) 60 General Norris having..found one place thereof myneable,..did presently set work⁓men in hand withal. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1623) 1208 One place was found mineable, where the Generall the fourth day of this siege set men on worke. 1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. ii. iii. (1854) 91 Being well informed that the ground wheron it stood was minable. 1893Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 11 Sept., Coal is being found in mineable deposits in all parts of the world. 1971Sci. Amer. May 17/1 There are minable cinnabar deposits in many regions around the world, and man was attracted to its use as early as prehistoric times. 1972Nature 14 Apr. 332/1 And is it likely that economically minable lead ores are equally distributed between North America and the rest of the world? |