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Mining

Mining was the process of removing valuable materials from beneath the ground.

Vegans were powerfully built and had infrared vision, making them ideally suited for mining. (TV: The Monster of Peladon, PROSE: Legacy)

In the early 22nd century, Dom Issigri founded the Issigri Mining Company. (TV: The Space Pirates) By the end of the same century, it was renamed the Interplanetary Mining Corporation, or IMC for short. (PROSE: The Menagerie)

The Drum was an underwater mining base in Caithness, Scotland. (TV: Under the Lake/Before the Flood)

Raaga was a Terileptil mining planet. The Terileptils sent their criminals there to mine tinclavic for the people of Hakol. (TV: The Visitation)

Amorb and Galatron Mining Corporation were rivals during the 23rd century. (TV: Vengeance on Varos)

Chasm Forge mined copper ore. (TV: Oxygen)

The Kollo-Zarnista Mining Corporation mined diamonds from Saturn's atmosphere during the 51st century. (PROSE: Diamond Dogs)

Killingworth was an English village that relied heavily on mining during the 19th century. The First Rani once visited the village and experimented on the miners, causing them to become increasingly violent. (TV: The Mark of the Rani)

Abertysswg was a Welsh mining village. (AUDIO: Black Thursday)

In their era in which the Dalek race was confined to the Dalek City, they mined the area beneath their city, leading out from its incubation level, with the end goal of creating a network of tunnels across Skaro's underground. Observing this, both the First Doctor and Tryana noted that the Daleks had "a talent for mining and drilling". (AUDIO: Return to Skaro) In their invasion of Earth in its 22nd century, they set up a mining operation in Bedfordshire in their attempt to fulfil Project Degravitate. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

During the Dark Times, Hana Fallomax sent robotic mining probes to Mordeela to mine the Kotturuh crystals that she needed to power her life shrouds. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)

After swallowing Missy's Master TARDIS turned a space-borne creature to stone, the Time Lady created a clone workforce to mine for the craft. (AUDIO: The Belly of the Beast)

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