excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
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explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
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get from the earth by excavation
<verb.consumption> mine ores and metals
lay mines
<verb.competition> The Vietnamese mined Cambodia
Mine \Mine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mining}.] 1. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
They mined the walls. --Hayward.
Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers . . . had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity. --Sir W. Scott.
2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
Lead veins have been traced . . . but they have not been mined. --Ure.
3. To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
The principal ore mined there is the bituminous cinnabar. --Ure.
Mine \Mine\ (m[=e]n), n. [F.] See {Mien}. [Obs.]
Mine \Mine\ (m[imac]n), pron. & a. [OE. min, fr. AS. m[=i]n; akin to D. mijn, OS., OFries., & OHG. m[=i]n, G. mein, Sw. & Dan. min, Icel. minn, Goth. meins my, mine, meina of me, and E. me. [root]187. See {Me}, and cf. {My}.] Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, ``Vengeance is mine; I will repay.'' --Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
I kept myself from mine iniquity. --Ps. xviii. 23.
Note: Mine is often used absolutely, the thing possessed being understood; as, his son is in the army, mine in the navy.
When a man deceives me once, says the Italian proverb, it is his fault; when twice, it is mine. --Bp. Horne.
This title honors me and mine. --Shak.
She shall have me and mine. --Shak.
Mine \Mine\, v. i. [F. miner, L. minare to drive animals, in LL. also, to lead, conduct, dig a mine (cf. E. lode, and lead to conduct), akin to L. minari to threaten; cf. Sp. mina mine, conduit, subterraneous canal, a spring or source of water, It. mina. See {Menace}, and cf. {Mien}.] 1. To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
2. To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
Mine \Mine\, n. [F., fr. LL. mina. See {Mine}, v. i.] 1. A subterranean cavity or passage; especially: (a) A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries. (b) (Mil.) A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
2. Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
3. (Fig.): A rich source of wealth or other good. --Shak.
4. (Mil.) An explosive device placed concealed in a location, on land or at sea, where an enemy vehicle or enemy personnel may pass through, having a triggering mechanism which detects people or vehicles, and which will explode and kill or maim personnel or destroy or damage vehicles. A mine placed at sea (formerly called a {torpedo}, see {torpedo}[2] (a) ) is also called an marine mine and underwater mine and sometimes called a floating mine, even though it may be anchored to the floor of the sea and not actually float freely. A mine placed on land (formerly called a {torpedo}, see {torpedo}[3]), usually buried, is called a land mine. [PJC]
{Mine dial}, a form of magnetic compass used by miners.
{Mine pig}, pig iron made wholly from ore; in distinction from {cinder pig}, which is made from ore mixed with forge or mill cinder.
{gold mine} (a) a mine where gold is obtained. (b) (Fig.) a rich source of wealth or other good; same as {Mine} 3. --Raymond.
The agency reported the strike committee "sharpened discipline" when some of the 130 miners began to leave the occupation strike at the Thorez mine.
The quake, registering 2.5 on the Richter scale of ground motion, hit the area around the Western Deep Levels East mine late Wednesday, the Anglo American Corp. said.
On Thursday, the mine owner, Anglo-American Corp., announced that a fourth miner had been found dead underground, but gave no further information.
One day in 1987, he rode his mountain bike into two-mile-high Leadville (population 2,067), where the Climax Molybdenum mine had just shut down.
The cave-in occurred as the men were removing coal about 2,400 feet into the mine.
In 1990, the mine produced 17,000 tonnes of tin, compared with 32,000 in its heyday.
Spreads bust outwards but augmented rather than reduced mine. Marks and Spencer Minimiser, polyamide / elastane, sizes 32-36D-E, 38C-E, 40C-DD Pounds 14. Spreads bust effectively but heavy underwire keeps under-arm line smooth.
Mr. Conger attributed the expanded gold output to increasing production from the McLaughlin mine in northern California, which opened in April 1985.
It is working the Absaloka mine of Westmoreland Resources Inc., 25 miles from the grassy hillside where Gen.
Roughly one out of 200 kimberlite pipes contain diamonds, but only one in 20 of those has a high enough proportion of gemstones to justify a mine. The Northwest Territories diamond rush may yet come to naught.
They said the funds will go toward developing the C$155 million mine in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Anglo American Corp., which owns the mine, gave no reason for the fighting, but it appeared to be black faction fighting.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Beckley by the New Beckley Mining Corp., which also announced it will close its nearby Glen Daniel mine because of what it called union violence stemming from the UMW's selective strikes.
But the walkouts failed to force private mine owners to accept the federation demand that labor contracts of mine unions be negotiated jointly rather than on the current company-by-company basis.
But the walkouts failed to force private mine owners to accept the federation demand that labor contracts of mine unions be negotiated jointly rather than on the current company-by-company basis.
Chinese authorities claimed someone had fired on the troops marching along Changan Avenue from a foreigner's apartment in the compound next to mine.
In February, Mr Hannah announced that La Escondida would step up production by a further 80,000 tonnes - the output of a medium-sized mine - by 1994.
Unions allege that mine wages for unskilled or semi-skilled workers are lower than in the manufacturing sector, the reverse of international patterns.
Robles said the 150 to 300 miners were trapped at the privately-owned Sol de Oro gold mine near Nazca, on the Pacific coast 230 miles south of Lima.
Both Britain and France distanced themselves from U.S. convoy operations, however, saying the mine sweepers would be used only to protect their own ships in the Persian Gulf region.
The USS Samuel B. Roberts, a guided-missile frigate that nearly sank last year after striking a mine in the Persian Gulf, was returned to the Navy in a ceremony Monday.
It's not his or mine." But that sentiment, which native Georgian Josef V. Stalin tried to instill by uprooting whole nationalities from their homelands, is proving to be rare among the myriad minorities of the Soviet Union.
The news agency, quoting a Defense Ministry source, said the mine was discovered by a Kuwaiti naval patrol boat and was detonated.
About 170 people had been employed at the brown-coal mine owned by Preussen Elektra of Hanover, one of the largest West German utility companies.
A strike at Asarco Inc.'s Ray copper mine in Arizona stretched into its sixth day Friday.
I heard her voice screaming out for mine, but there was nothing we could do," she said, her voice cracking.
Fortitude, the nation's third-largest gold producing mine, had 1986 production costs of $171 an ounce, compared with $206 an ounce in 1985, Mr. Bourne said.
The site is so remote that access to any mine development would have be up a couple of rivers, and then via some newly-constructed road link.
The act makes it illegal for any company or mine to kill migrating water fowl and every death has to be reported. The mining method that causes difficulties is called heap leaching.
The rebels also want the equivalent of $10 billion compensation for environmental damage caused by the huge Bougainville copper mine.