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You DON'T mine using gunpowder. It's not powerful enough of an explosive to move rock.
Miners use things like ammonium nitrate/fuel oil slurries, dynamite, TNT, gel explosives and other powerful blasting agents, and the product they use is chosen in part by the kind of mining being done. If they're blasting coal in an open-pit mine they like ammonium nitrate/fuel oil because it's really cheap to use. If they're mining underground they wouldn't use that because you need a lot of it to do the job--they have special tanker trucks they use to pump ANFO into boreholes. For underground mining TNT or gel explosives are used, depending on what you're trying to do.
But all explosives are used in the same basic way: drill holes, insert explosives, cover up the explosives to make the force of the blast go sideways instead of up, and set them off.
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