A declaration of ownership; to unearth and extract; or an explosive. Mining is a destructive process of extracting valuable minerals and ores from the Earth, thereby negatively impacting the landscape and often the associated workers’ health (see Halpern in SDUK06; Cutler in 05). Recently, “mining” also refers to the process of resolving cryptocurrency transactions, which has been found to be similarly costly and detrimental to the environment. In computing, data mining is an analytic method used to discover patterns and extract information from datasets (see Mattern, SDUK01).