Mining terminology in English represents a historically developed professional subsystem used to describe geological structures, extraction processes, safety procedures, equipment, and industrial operations. This study aims to provide a lexical–semantic analysis of English mining terminology, emphasising semantic motivation, terminologisation of common vocabulary, technical derivation, and semantic classification. Using a descriptive research method and examples from English mining lexicons, technical dictionaries, and professional discourse, the article analyses semantic relations, lexical origins, and structural categories of English mining terms. The findings demonstrate that English mining terminology exhibits systematic semantic organisation and highly productive lexical mechanisms such as compounding, conversion, semantic specialisation, and metaphorical extension. The article argues that English mining terminology forms a coherent professional sublanguage characterised by domain-specific polysemy, motivated word formation, and terminological semantic fields.

English terminology, mining, terminologisation, lexical semantics

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