Mining is the extraction of geological materials from the Earth.
Deep sea mining, extraction from the ocean floor at depths below over 200 metres.
Mining may also refer to:
- Mining, Austria, a municipality in Upper Austria
- Mining (military), a siege tactic
- Data mining, the process of extracting knowledge from a data set
- Social media mining, extracting data from social media
- Mining (cryptocurrency), the allocation of processing power for cryptocurrency transactions with the expectation of a reward
- Bitcoin mining see Bitcoin network
- Mianning, the Daoguang Emperor, eighth emperor of the Manchurian Qing dynasty