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Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:

Extraction or digging

  • Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
  • Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine

Grammar

Military

  • Mining (military), digging under a fortified military position to penetrate its defenses
  • Mine warfare
    • Anti-tank mine, a land mine made for use against armored vehicles
    • Antipersonnel mine, a land mine targeting people walking around, either with explosives or poison gas
    • Bangalore mine, colloquial name for the Bangalore torpedo, a man-portable explosive device for clearing a path through wire obstacles and land mines
    • Cluster bomb, an aerial bomb which releases many small submunitions, which often act as mines
    • Land mine, explosive mines placed under or on the ground
    • Naval mine, or sea mine, a mine at sea, either floating or on the sea bed, often dropped via parachute from aircraft, or otherwise lain by surface ships or submarines
    • Parachute mine, an air-dropped "sea mine" falling gently under a parachute, used as a high-capacity cheaply-cased large bomb against ground targets

Places

People

Given name

  • Mine Ercan (born 1978), Turkish women's wheelchair basketball player
  • Mine Guri, Albanian communist politician
  • Miné Okubo (1912–2001), American artist and writer

Nickname

  • Mine Boy, nickname of Alex Levinsky (1910–1990), NHL hockey player

Surname

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Literature

Music

Albums

Songs

Television

Organizations and enterprises

Science and technology

See also