A person who constructs, operates, and maintains mines.
he set up practice as a geologist and mining engineer
Example sentencesExamples
- He has twenty-five years of experience worldwide as a geologist and mining engineer.
- The mining engineers learned to calculate the number of bolts and the length of bolts needed for the mine to remain safe.
- I used to be a mining engineer and would produce maps that estimate where mineral deposits would intersect the surface.
- He was already qualified as a mining engineer.
- He was consultant mining engineer for the North Eastern Railway from 1859.
- He was born in 1904 and trained as a coal miner before becoming a mining engineer.
- He left school at the age of 15 and trained as a mining engineer.
- One of the country's top mining engineers said he had never seen such flooding in a pit in 47 years.
- After graduating he spent a few years as a mining engineer.
- A bunch of mining engineers and experienced miners were busy picking out a good spot to dig a shaft to get at the coal seam.