Misplaced Pages

Mine

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Mines)

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

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

Topics referred to by the same term Disambiguation iconThis disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mine.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Categories: