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Mine or mines can refer to:
- Land mine, an anti-tank and anti-personnel weapon
- Naval mine, an explosive device placed in water to destroy ships or submarines
- Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground
Mine can also refer to:
- A possessive pronoun
- Mining (military), a siege tactic
- Mine, Saga, a Japanese town
- Mine, Yamaguchi, a Japanese city
- MINE'S, a Japanese auto tuning company
- Mine (novel), a novel by Robert R. McCammon
- Mina (unit), 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 miner
- MINE, a design office in San Francisco of which Christopher Simmons is principal creative director
- "Mines", a commonly used name for the Colorado School of Mines
- Mine!, a 1994 album released by musical duo Trout Fishing in America
- Mines (album), a 2010 album by indie rock band Menomena
- "Mine" (song), by Taylor Swift from Speak Now
- "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 Sepultura from Roots
- "Mine", a song by Taproot from Welcome
- "Mine", a song by Christina Perri from lovestrong.
- "Mine", an unreleased song by Disturbed from The Lost Children.
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Mining (military)
Military mining, undermining or tunnel warfare is a siege method based on mining techniques which has been used since antiquity against a walled city, fortress, castle or other strongly held and fortified military position. A counter mine is a mine dug to allow defenders to attack miners, or destroy a mine threatening their fortifications.
Antiquity
The Greek historian Polybius, in his Histories, gives a graphic account of mining and counter mining at the Roman siege of Ambracia:
The Aetolians countered the Roman mine with smoke; according to Polybius, this was the first time poison gas was used.
Another extraordinary usage of siege-mining in the ancient Greece, where during Philip V of Macedon's siege of the little town of Prinassos, according to Polybius, "the ground around the town were extremely rocky and hard, making any siege-mining virtually impossible. However, Philip ordered his soldiers during the cover of night collect earth from elsewhere and throw it all down at the fake tunnel's entrance, making it look like the Macedonians were almost finished completing the tunnels. Eventually, when Philip V announced that large parts of the town-walls were undermined, the citizens surrendered without delay."
Mine (film)
Mine is a 1985 Turkish drama film directed by Atıf Yılmaz. It was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.
