The process or business of ex-tracting from the earth tbe precious or valuable metals, elther in thelr native state or in their ores. In re Rollins Gold Min. Co. (D. C.) 102 Fed. 985. As ordinarily used, the term does not include the extraction from the earth of rock, marble, or slate, which is commonly described as “quarrying,” al-though coal aud salt are “mined;” nor does tt include sinking wells or shafts for petro-leum or natural gas, unless expressly so de* dared by statute, as is the case in Indiana. See State v. Indiana, etc., Mln. Co., 120 Ind. 675, 22 N. E. 778, 6 L. R. A. 579; williams v. Citizens’ Enterprise Co., 153 Ind. 496, 55 N. E. 425
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
