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Definition of Overmined
1. overmine [v] - See also: overmine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmined
Literary usage of Overmined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Missouri Division of Mine Inspection, Missouri Bureau of Mines (1896)
"... term "blasting off the solid:" Whenever coal is blasted without being under
or overmined, in mining parlance it is said to be "blasted off the solid. ..."
2. The Channel Tunnel and Public Opinion by James Knowles (1883)
"Undermined by land, overmined at sea, sluice-ridden at its entrance, and liable
to asphyxiating vapours at intervals, the tunnel will hardly he regarded by ..."
3. Central Eurasian Water Crisis; Caspian, Aral, and Dead Seas by Iwao Kobori, Michael H. Glantz (1998)
"... lying wholly in Israel, with a safe yield of 375 MCM/yr. or the sandstone Gaza
aquifer, whose 80 MCM/yr yield is currently being seriously overmined. 4. ..."
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