Mine Explained
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
- Mine Kasapoğlu (born 1979), Turkish sports photographer
- 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
- "Mine" (The 1975 song), 2018
- "Mine" (Bazzi song), 2017
- "Mine" (Beyoncé song), 2013
- "Mine" (Kelly Clarkson song), 2023
- "Mine" (Alice Glass song), 2018
- "Mine" (Taylor Swift song), 2010
- "Mine", a song from the 1933 Broadway musical Let 'Em Eat Cake
- "Mine", a song by Bebe Rexha from the album Expectations
- "Mine", a song by Dolly Parton from In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
- "Mine", a song by Everything but the Girl from Everything but the Girl
- "Mine", a song by Ghinzu from Blow
- "Mine", a song by Jason Webley from Only Just Beginning
- "Mine", a song by Krezip from Days Like This
- "Mine", a song by Mustasch from Mustasch
- "Mine", a song by Savage Garden from Savage Garden
- "Mine", a song by Sepultura from Roots
- "Mine", a song by Taproot from Welcome
- "Mine", a song by Christina Perri from lovestrong
- "Mine", a song by Disturbed from The Lost Children
- "Mine", a song by M.I from the album The Chairman
- "#Mine", a song by Lil' Kim from Lil Kim Season
- "Mine, Mine, Mine", a song from the soundtrack for the 1995 Disney film Pocahontas
Television
Organizations and enterprises
- MINE, a design office in San Francisco, US, of which Christopher Simmons is principal creative director
- Colorado School of Mines or "Mines", a university in Golden, Colorado, US
- Mine's, a Japanese auto tuning company
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, a university in Rapid City, South Dakota, US
Science and technology
- MINE (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen
- Mine or star mine, a type of fireworks
- MinE, a bacterial protein
- Data mining, the computational process of discovering patterns in large data sets
- Leaf mine, a space in a leaf
- Mina (unit), or mine, an ancient Greek unit of mass
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