Ah yes, my mistake! Sorry about confusing mining with hacking down trees.
Look at the whole silent interaction between Gimli and the Trees in Fangorn. That unspoken tension between them was enough to show that some hostility was present. Another example is a little exchange between Aulë and Yavanna in the Silmarillion. Yavanna maintains that Aulë's Dwarves will recklessly cut down "her" trees for their fires, but Aulë matter-of-factly says that they will need fires for their crafts. Yavanna then goes to Manwë, who lets her "create" the Ents, to guard the Trees.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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