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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

• Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun

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

• The Mine, Queensland, a locality in the Rockhampton Region, Australia
• Mine, Saga, a Japanese town
• Mine, Yamaguchi, a Japanese city
  • Mine District, Yamaguchi, a former district in the area of the city

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

See also

• Mein (disambiguation)
• Mining (disambiguation)
• Yours (disambiguation)