Question: What kind of mines are the Giant Mine and the Discovery Mine?

Context articles: Colomac Mine
Discovery Mine
Ptarmigan and Tom Mine
National Mine Map Repository
Giant Mine (film)
Accentor-class minesweeper
N.W.T. Mining Heritage Society
Green Giant mine
P3 Mk2 mine
Giant Mine

The Colomac Mine was a privately owned and operated open pit gold mine located 220 km northwest of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories in Canada .
 The Colomac mine operated between 1990–1992, and 1994–1997.
 It was operated by Neptune Resources Limited that had little success in making a profit during its operation.
 In 1994, the mine had reopened under Royal Oak Mines Inc.
 Both Neptune Resources and Royal Oak Mines where both owned and operated by Peggy Witte.
 Due to low gold prices and high cost of mining, Royal Oak Mines was forced into bankruptcy.
 The Federal Government of Canada became owners of the mine, along with the related environmental issues.
 A major cleanup effort is under way to prevent the mine from polluting the environment, but this might be too late at this stage.
 This mine is now owned and controlled by the Indigenous and Northern Affairs department of the Federal government, while Public Works and Government services is the current contracting authority.
The Discovery Mine was a gold mine 81 kilometers northeast (approx bearing of 15 degrees) of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories that operated between 1950 and 1969.
 Gold was discovered here by Alfred Giauque in 1944.
 A complete townsite, on Giauque Lake, was established by the company to house workers and their families.
 The mine produced one million troy ounces (31,000 kg) of gold from one million tons of ore.
 The abandoned townsite, not accessible by road, was demolished in 2005.
The Ptarmigan and Tom Mine were gold producers located in the Northwest Territories, Canada at Yellowknife.
 The property was staked by prospectors in 1936 and acquired by Cominco in 1938.
 The mine first produced between 1941 and 1942 but closed due to wartime restrictions.
 The old property was demolished in 1969–1970.
 A new company, Treminco Resources Limited, reopened the workings in 1985 and production from the Tom ( ) portal began in 1986 with material being trucked to Giant Mine.
 The old Ptarmigan ( ) mine shaft was dewatered and production began in 1987.
 A new mill was built at the property and was operational in July 1989.
 Low gold prices forced the company to close the mines in 1997.
 Total gold production has been approximately 120,000 troy ounces (3700 kg).
The National Mine Map Repository (NMMR) is part of the United States Department of the Interior (DOI), Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE or OSM).
 The NMMR resides in the Pittsburgh suburb of Green Tree, Pennsylvania, and collects and maintains mine map information and images for the entire country, including data and maps of coal mines in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania.
 The Green Tree facility provides and stores, digitally and in microfilm (aperture cards), over 182,000 maps of abandoned mines.
 This repository contains maps of mine workings from the 1790s to the present day.
 It serves as a point of reference for mine maps and other information for both surface and underground mines throughout the United States.
 It also serves as a location to retrieve mine maps in an emergency.
 The NMMR provides services ranging from retrieving mine related data for economic analysis to assessing the potential risk associated with underground mining.
 Through analysis of mine maps and related information, the repository assists private and public sectors in industrial and commercial development, highway construction, and the preservation of public health, safety, and welfare.
 In addition, they collect, reproduce, and maintain a national inventory of mine maps and supporting documentation for private and public interests.
Giant Mine is a Canadian television film, which dramatizes the events of the 1992 Giant Mine labour dispute and the subsequent bomb explosion which killed nine replacement workers.
 The film, written by John Hunter and Martin O'Malley and directed by Penelope Buitenhuis, aired on CBC Television in 1996.
In World War II, the United States Navy needed a vessel that could consistently locate mines in [foreign or domestic?]
 or littoral waters.
 Littoral waters are found between the shore line and waters 60 meters deep.
 The Accentor-class minesweeper (sometimes called the Accentor/Acme-class minesweeper) was developed for this task.
 This class of minesweeper was named after the Accentor bird, Prunella modularis.
 This bird is endemic to Europe, Asia, and North Africa which is the area that World War II occurred.
 The bird is a drab brown and gray color and is in the same family as warblers and thrushes.
 The Accentor-class mine sweeper was designed for the sweeping of mines in harbors, bays, and other littoral waters.
 The Accentor-class minesweeper had a wooden hull for three reasons.
 The first was that some of the mines that the Accentor-class minesweeper was trying to detect were detonated by a copper wire coming out of the top of the mine that is used to detect the magnetic field that is produced by the metal hulls of most ships; when the wire senses a magnetic field, it detonates the mine.
 Minesweepers use wooden hulls because wood is a non-magnetic material, unlike steel, and would not set off this type of mine.
 The second is that wooden hulls were lighter than metal hulls.
 This caused them to float higher in the water, which made them displace less water and have a smaller pressure wave, so pressure mines would not be set off by the movement of the ship.
 Lastly, due to the ship floating higher in the water, contact mines were not effective because they were often around 20 feet below the surface of the water, and the draft of this class of ship was between 8 feet 11 inches and 10 feet 8 inches.
 Typically, the Accentor-class minesweepers were armed with a pair of .50 caliber machine guns for protection.
 Rather than creating new minesweeping vessels, forty-five wooden-hulled fishing boats were converted into Accentor-class minesweepers.
 This saved the Navy both time and money.
 Since these converted fishing boats were not all the same, their specifications do vary a bit.
 The converted fishing boats had a displacement from 165 to 270 tons of water.
 They had speeds from 8.5 up to 14 knots and crews from as small as 15 up to 50.
The N.W.T. Mining Heritage Society, in the Northwest Territories, Canada, was first formed in early 2000 as the Giant Mine Heritage Group to rescue items from the Giant Mine site after its owner, Royal Oak Mines Incorporated, went bankrupt.
The Green Giant mine is one of the largest vanadium mines in Madagascar.
 The mine is located in Atsimo-Atsinanana.
 The mine has reserves amounting to 59.2 million tonnes of ore grading 0.68% vanadium.
The P2 Mk2 and P3 Mk2 are Pakistani plastic cased minimum metal anti-tank blast mines.
 The P2 Mk2 has a square case with a central circular ribbed pressure plate, the P3 is circular with a central circular pressure plate.
 Both mines use anti-personnel mines as the fuse, typically the either the P4 Mk1 or P2 Mk2 anti-personnel mines.
 The anti-personnel mine sits in a cavity below the pressure plate, when enough pressure is place on the pressure plate of the mine, it collapses onto the anti-personnel mine triggering it and the main charge which sits below it.
 A yellow canvas carrying strap is normally fitted to the side of the mine.
 The mines have a secondary fuse well on the bottom which can be used with anti-handling devices.
 A GLM-2 electronic booby trap can be fitted to the cavity under the pressure plate.
 The mine is supplied with a steel disc which makes the mine more easily detectable, although this is seldom used.
 Since 1997 only a detectable version of the mine has been produced, and to comply with the Convention on Conventional Weapons amended protocol II, Pakistani stocks of the mine are being retrofitted with steel detection discs.
 The mines are found in Afghanistan, Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Somalia, and Tajikistan.
The Giant Mine was a gold mine located on the Ingraham Trail, 5 km north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
 Giant Mine is within the Kam Group, which is part of the Yellowknife greenstone belt.
 Gold was discovered on the property and mineral claims staked in 1935 by Johnny Baker, but the true extent of the gold deposits were not known until 1944 when a massive gold-bearing shear zone was uncovered beneath the drift-filled Baker Creek Valley.