n. 1 pit, excavation, lode, vein; colliery, coalfield My father worked in a mine from the age of 14 2 source, mother-lode, vein, store, storehouse, supply, deposit, depository or depositary, repository, reserve, hoard, treasure trove, reservoir, well-spring; abundance, fund, gold-mine, wealth, treasury This encyclopedia is a rich mine of information
v. 3 excavate, dig, quarry, extract, scoop out or up, remove, unearth; derive, extract, draw He claims to have mined coal in Wales and gold in South Africa Analysis shows this ore was mined in Pennsylvania. 4 ransack, search, rake through, scour, scan, read, survey, look through, probe Several directories were mined to compile our list of sales prospects