Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:

Extraction or digging

Miner A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two senses in which the term is used. In its narrowest sense, a miner is someone who works at the rock face; cutting, blasting ...

, a person engaged in mining or digging *

Mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...

, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine

Grammar

*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun

Military

Anti-tank mine An anti-tank mine (abbreviated to "AT mine") is a type of land mine designed to damage or destroy vehicles including tanks and armored fighting vehicles. Compared to anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines typically have a much larger explosive c ...

, 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 A Bangalore torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire. It is sometimes colloquially ...

, colloquial name for the Bangalore torpedo, a man-portable explosive device for clearing a path through wire obstacles and land mines *

Cluster bomb A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehic ...

, an aerial bomb which releases many small submunitions, which often act as mines *

Land mine A land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it. Such a device is typically detonated automatic ...

, explosive mines placed under or on the ground * Mining (military), digging under a fortified military position to penetrate its defenses *

Naval mine 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 and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, any ve ...

, 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 A parachute mine is a naval mine dropped from an aircraft by parachute. They were mostly used in the Second World War by the Luftwaffe and initially by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command. Frequently, they were dropped on land targets. ...

, an air-dropped "sea mine" falling gently under a parachute, used as a high-capacity cheaply-cased large bomb against ground targets

Places

* The Mine, Queensland, a locality in the Rockhampton Region, Australia *

Mine, Saga was a town located in Miyaki District, Saga Prefecture, Japan. The status of this municipality was changed from a village to a town on May 1, 1962. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 7,361 and a density of 449.66 persons per k ...

, a Japanese town *

Mine, Yamaguchi is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of May 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 25,857 and a population density of 54.70 persons per km2. The total area is 472.71 km2. History The city was founded on March ...

, a Japanese city ** Mine District, Yamaguchi, a former district in the area of the city

People

Given name

* Mine Ercan (born 1978), Turkish women's wheelchair basketball player *

Mine Guri Mine Guri is an Albanian politician who served as deputy chair of the Presidium of the People's Assembly. She was a lathe worker before involving in politics. In 1961 she joined the ruling party of the Communist Albania, Albanian Workers' Party. ...

, Albanian communist politician * Miné Okubo (1912–2001), American artist and writer

Nickname

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

Surname

Kazuki Mine is a Japanese football player. He is currently playing for Vanraure Hachinohe is a football club based in Hachinohe, a city in the southeastern part of Aomori Prefecture in Japan. They currently play in the J3 League. The name Vanraure comes ...

(born 1993), Japanese football player * George Ralph Mines (born 1886), English cardiac electrophysiologist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Mine'' (1985 film), a Turkish film * ''Mine'' (2009 film), an American documentary film * ''Mine'' (2016 film), an Italian-American film *'' Abandoned Mine'' or ''The Mine'', a 2013 horror film * ''The Mine'' (1978 film), Turkish film

Literature

* ''Mine'' (novel), a 1990 novel by Robert R. McCammon * ''The Mine'' (novel), 2012 novel by Arnab Ray

Music

Albums

* ''Mine'' (Kim Jaejoong EP), 2013 * ''Mine'' (Dolly Parton album), 1973 * ''Mine'' (Phoebe Ryan EP), 2015 * ''Mine'' (Li Yuchun album), 2007 * ''Mines'' (album), a 2010 album by indie rock band Menomena *''

Mine! Trout Fishing in America is an American musical duo from Texas. The members are Keith Grimwood (vocals, bass guitar, upright bass, fiddle) and Ezra Idlet (vocals, guitars, banjo, bouzouki). Both musicians were previously members of the folk rock b ...

'', a 1994 album released by musical duo Trout Fishing in America

Songs

* "Mine" (Alice Glass song), 2018 * "Mine" (Bazzi song), 2017 * "Mine" (Beyoncé song), 2013 * "Mine" (Taylor Swift song), 2010 * "Mine" (The 1975 song), 2018 *"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 Everything but the Girl (occasionally referred to as EBTG) are an English musical duo formed in Kingston upon Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, producer and singer Ben Wa ...

'' *"Mine", a song by Ghinzu from '' Blow'' *"Mine", a song by Jason Webley from ''

Only Just Beginning ''Only Just Beginning'' is the fourth album by Jason Webley, released in 2004. Track listing #"February Relaxing Her Fingers After a Brief Winter's Grip" – 4:18 #"Music That Puts Everything Together" – 4:54 #"Balloon Feather Boat Tomato" – ...

'' *"Mine", a song by Krezip from '' Days Like This'' *"Mine", a song by

Mustasch Mustasch is a rock band from Sweden. They were formed in the fall of 1998 by Ralf Gyllenhammar, Hannes Hansson, Mats Hansson and Stam Johansson in Gothenburg. Band history Mustasch was formed in Gothenburg in 1998, and recorded demos at "T ...

from ''Mustasch'' *"Mine", a song by Savage Garden from ''

Savage Garden Savage Garden was an Australian pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on instruments. Formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1993, the duo achieved international success from the mid-1990s to early 2000s with the No. ...

'' *"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 ''Lil Kim Season'' is the fourth mixtape by American rapper Lil' Kim, released on March 28, 2016, by I.R.S Records. Background Lil' Kim first announced on Hot 97 at the Hot 4 The Holidays concert that she was releasing an album in 2016 and s ...

'' *"Mine, Mine, Mine", a song from the

soundtrack A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack o ...

for the 1995 Disney film ''Pocahontas''

Television

* ''Mine'' (2021 TV series), a South Korean television series

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 Mine's is a tuning firm based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. History Mine's was started by Tsuzo Niikura in 1985. It attracted attention in 1988 by being among the first Japanese companies to sell re-programmed ECU systems for popu ...

, 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 leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wa ...

, a space in a leaf *

Mina (unit) The mina (also mĕnē, Aramaic; ) is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight, which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency. History The word mina comes from the ancient Semitic root / 'to count', Akka ...

, or mine, an ancient Greek unit of mass