### mine:

Bottom mine
* are influence activated and rest at the bottom of shallow areas of water.
* rest on the ocean floor.

Coal mine
* are dangerous as they can cause death due to roof falls and explosions
  - mines
  - notorious killers due to roof falls and explosions
* put heavy metals leachate into the water and dust into the air.

### mine:

Land mine
* are a barbaric legacy of wars
  - hazard
  - human rights issue and also a humanitarian one
  - serious problem in nations plagued by guerrilla warfare and terrorism
  - threat, but so too is malaria and drought
  - also a major problem for farmers
  - cheap to produce, but expensive to destroy
  - evil, pernicious, indiscriminate weapons of war
  - insidious weapons
  - prevalent throughout the countryside
  - responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians in countries such as Cambodia
  - still prevalent throughout the countryside
* blow up and injure people.
* come in different shapes, sizes, and colors.
* detonate when pressure is applied in any way.
* kill and maim children while they walk to school and play in fields near their homes
  - or maim thousands each year, and children suffer
  - without discrimination
* make large tracts of agricultural land unusable.
* pose a particularly harsh burden on society
  - threat to all travelers in Abkhazia
* remain buried in former war zones around the world.
* take or wreck three lives an hour, every hour, every day of every year.
* tend to be placed indiscriminately, without regard to where kids live and play.

Open pit mine
* cause damage
  - ecological damage
* cause severe damage

Surface mine
* Many surface mines yield fine brachiopods , snails, clams and cephalopods.
* Most surface mines use bright warning flags on their smaller vehicles.
* are usually less hazardous than underground mines.
* employ the largest machines in the world.

Underground mine
* Some underground mines are many kilometres long.
* are currently the highest profit producers of gold and silver
  - damp, dark, noisy, and cold
* can be critical habitat for such species.
* differ according to how the coal seam is situated with respect to the surface.

### mineral salt:

Potassium citrate
* helps stone patients bind calcium and lessen the urinary amount.
* is administered orally and metabolized to bicarbonate in the liver
  - chemical compounds
* mineral salt.
* natural form of potassium.

### minerals:

Plagioclase feldspar
* All plagioclase feldspars show a type of twinning that is named after albite.
* are minerals
  - silicates that contain considerable sodium and calcium
  - yet another silicate that contains considerable sodium or calcium
* make up more than two-thirds of total feldspars.

### mines:

Copper mine
* are mines.
+ Nicosia
  * Nicosia has many shops, restaurants and entertainment. The city is a trade center. It manufactures textiles, leather, pottery, plastic, and other items. Copper mines are nearby.

### mining product:

Ball clay
* are highly plastic, and are added to clay bodies in order to increase plasticity.
* contain free silica.
* is clay.
* mining product.
* plastic, fine grained cream or white firing clay which is easily slaked in water.
* tend to have very high dry shrinkage combined with high green strength and slow drying.

### minnow-sized fish:

Brook stickleback
* are minnow-sized fish
  - social and school together with other fish in the non-breeding season
* have no special conservation status in Minnesota.