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Mine or mines can refer to:
Mine can also refer to:
- Land mineLand mineA land mine is usually a weight-triggered explosive device which is intended to damage a target—either human or inanimate—by means of a blast and/or fragment impact....
, an anti-tank and anti-personnel weapon - Naval mineNaval mineA naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to 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, an enemy vessel...
, an explosive device placed in water to destroy ships or submarines - MiningMiningMining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
, extraction of mineral resources from the ground
Mine can also refer to:
- A possessive pronounPossessive pronounA possessive pronoun is a part of speech that substitutes for a noun phrase that begins with a possessive determiner . For example, in the sentence These glasses are mine, not yours, the words mine and yours are possessive pronouns and stand for my glasses and your glasses, respectively...
- Mining (military), a siege tactic
- Mine, SagaMine, Sagawas a town located in Miyaki District, Saga, Japan.As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 7,361 and a density of 449.66 persons per km². Its total area was 16.37 km²....
, a Japanese town - Mine, YamaguchiMine, Yamaguchiis a city located in Yamaguchi, Japan.- History :The city was founded on March 31, 1954 by a merger of municipalities that departed from Mine District ....
, a Japanese city - MINE'SMINE'SMine's is a tuning firm based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 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 popular Japanese sports cars...
, a Japanese auto tuning company - Mine (novel)Mine (novel)Mine is a novel written by American author Robert R. McCammon. It won the 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel .-Plot summary:The novel tells the story of Laura Clayborne, a successful journalist, the wife of a stockbroker and mother-to-be...
, a novel by Robert R. McCammon - Mina (unit)Mina (unit)The mina is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight equivalent to 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency; in ancient Greece it was equal to 100 drachmae. In the first century AD, it amounted to about a fourth of the wages earned annually by an agricultural worker...
, or mine, an ancient Greek unit of mass - Mine or star mine (in pyrotechnics), a type of firework
- Leaf mine, a space in a leaf, between the upper and lower epidermis, made by the feeding activity of an insect larva: a leaf minerLeaf minerLeaf miner is a term used to describe the larvae of many different species of insect which live in and eat the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths , sawflies and flies , though some beetles and wasps also exhibit this behavior.Like Woodboring beetles, leaf...
- MINE, a design office in San Francisco of which Christopher SimmonsChristopher SimmonsChristopher Simmons is a Canadian-born, San Francisco-based graphic designer, writer and educator.He served on the board of directors of the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA from 1996–1999, and again as president . Among his enduring accomplishments in that position was the creation of...
is principal creative director - "Mines", a commonly used name for the Colorado School of MinesColorado School of MinesThe Colorado School of Mines is a small public teaching and research university devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources. Located in Golden, Colorado, CSM was ranked 29th, in America among national...
- Mine!, a 1994 album released by musical duo Trout Fishing in America
- Mines (album)Mines (album)* The vinyl version of the album contains a hidden track known as "Side D" or "Bomb Me Back", while the iTunes store offered a bonus track called "The Insulation"....
, a 2010 album by indie rock band Menomena - "Mine" (song)Mine (song)"Mine" is a country pop song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift alone and produced by Swift along with Nathan Chapman. It was released as the lead single from Swift's third studio album, Speak Now by Big Machine Records...
, by Taylor Swift from Speak Now - "Mine", a song by Dolly Parton from In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)In the Good Old Days is the third solo studio album by Dolly Parton, released in February 1969.-Album information:...
- "Mine", a song by Everything but the Girl from Everything but the GirlEverything but the Girl (album)Everything but the Girl is the first US release by the musical duo Everything but the Girl from Hull, England that was released in 1984. It contains six tracks from their UK debut, Eden, two UK singles and four alternate tracks.-Track listing:...
- "Mine", a song by Ghinzu from BlowBlow (Ghinzu album)Blow is the second album by Belgian rock group Ghinzu released in 2004. It features the single, "Do You Read Me?", and the song "The Dragster Wave" which was used in the 2008 film Taken and is included in its original soundtrack....
- "Mine", a song by Jason Webley from Only Just BeginningOnly Just Beginning-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" – 5:11#"Icarus" – 3:55#"Mine" – 3:38#"Map" – 4:38#"Viaje" – 4:01#"May Day" – 3:20#"With" – 7:50...
- "Mine", a song by Krezip from Days Like ThisDays Like This (Krezip album)Days Like This is the third album from Dutch band Krezip. It peaked at #3 in the Dutch Mega Album Top 100.-Production:After the tour for Krezip's debut album Nothing Less finished, lead singer Jacqueline Govaert suffered from writer's block, hindering the quick recording of a follow-up....
- "Mine", a song by Mustasch from Mustasch
- "Mine", a song by Sepultura from Roots
- "Mine", a song by Taproot from Welcome
- "Mine", a song by Christina PerriChristina PerriChristina Judith Perri is an American singer and songwriter from Philadelphia. Her song "Jar of Hearts" charted in the United States after it was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010. Rolling Stone named her the "Band of the Week" on October 26, 2010...
from lovestrong.Lovestrong.lovestrong. is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Christina Perri. Following the release of Perri's lead single "Jar of Hearts" and a record deal with Atlantic Records, lovestrong. was released on May 10, 2011....