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    into a single operation controlled by the Spring Valley Mining and Irrigation Company. The mine closed in 1894. Still existing in the area are Spring Valley...
    10 KB (1,006 words) - 14:30, 7 October 2023
  • is classified as a minimum metal mine, the only metal it contains being a 4.5 millimetre diameter zinc-plated steel spring. The mine is found in Angola...
    1 KB (126 words) - 19:47, 5 February 2022
  • of $200 million and a review of its operations. On 25 October 2012, Solid Energy confirmed it was moth-balling the Spring Creek Mine and that 220 miners...
    27 KB (2,639 words) - 10:42, 27 April 2024
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    Claymore mine is a directional anti-personnel mine developed for the United States Armed Forces. Its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large...
    24 KB (3,020 words) - 16:58, 9 June 2024
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    developing a mine and a company town. Knight named the town Storrs, after the mine superintendent. The name of the town was changed to Spring Canyon in...
    5 KB (559 words) - 05:59, 29 July 2023
  • Three Springs Mine is a talc mine located outside of Three Springs, Western Australia. Owned and operated by the Imerys Group, a French-based company,...
    2 KB (121 words) - 21:47, 5 November 2023
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    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited...
    118 KB (14,839 words) - 17:53, 9 June 2024
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    ejected, allowing the spring-loaded legs to fold down. Also four tripwires are launched away from the mine. After a short period the mine is armed, from that...
    1 KB (160 words) - 21:14, 16 February 2022
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    TM-62 (redirect from TM-62 mine)
    The mine can be laid manually or automatically from a mine laying machine including the PMR-1, PMR-2 wheeled towed mine layers, the GMZ-3 tracked mine laying...
    4 KB (457 words) - 06:43, 20 May 2024
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    resided in Idaho Springs since 2002 Haleigh Washington, Olympic Gold medalist in Women’s Volleyball at 2020 Summer Olympics Argo Gold Mine and Mill - The...
    22 KB (1,282 words) - 19:40, 13 May 2024
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    anti-personnel mine or anti-personnel landmine (APL) is a form of mine designed for use against humans, as opposed to an anti-tank mine, which target vehicles...
    20 KB (2,622 words) - 10:34, 11 September 2023
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    The Teller mine (German: Tellermine) was a German-made antitank mine common in World War II. With explosives sealed inside a sheet metal casing and fitted...
    4 KB (432 words) - 02:11, 3 February 2024
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    MN-111 (redirect from MN-111 mine)
    a Polish air-dropped anti-tank landmine. The mine is designed for use on soft ground. The mine is cylindrical with six spring-loaded fins attached to...
    1 KB (229 words) - 08:46, 17 February 2022
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    fuze, breaks a shear pin, and inverts a belleville spring, flipping the striker downwards into a stab sensitive detonator, triggering the mine. The M4 version...
    2 KB (211 words) - 05:23, 30 September 2023
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    armed position, it is presented as a steel cylinder with six spring-loaded fins at the bottom of the mine. The POM-2 mines must be delivered using remote...
    9 KB (1,052 words) - 12:08, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coudersport Ice Mine
    Coudersport Ice Mine is an ice cave located in Sweden Township, Pennsylvania, (east of Coudersport) that forms icicles in the spring and summer but not...
    3 KB (375 words) - 16:59, 21 March 2023
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    The M14 mine "Toepopper" is a small (56 mm [2.2 in] diameter) anti-personnel land mine first deployed by the United States circa 1955.[citation needed]...
    8 KB (920 words) - 16:11, 1 October 2023
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    The M15 mine is a large circular United States anti-tank blast mine, first deployed during the Korean War. Essentially, it is a larger version of the...
    7 KB (815 words) - 04:27, 20 May 2024
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    the mine, the arming pin is sheared. This allows the air-bellows inside the mine to be inflated by the compression spring, which in turn lifts a “safety”...
    14 KB (1,798 words) - 14:49, 20 January 2024
  • shallow water. The mine uses a standard mechanical pressure fuze, with three ball bearings retaining a spring-loaded striker over a detonator assembly...
    801 bytes (99 words) - 06:25, 11 February 2022
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