mine
place for the extraction of minerals
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Summary
mine is a facility type[1]. mine draws 2,674 Wikipedia views per month (facility type category, ranking #4 of 6).[2]
Key Facts
- Operator: mining company[3]
- Subclass of: underground structure[4], production site[5]
- Has use: mineral extraction[6]
- Commons category: Mines[7]
- SRGB color hex triplet: 8E8D91[8]
- Has part(s): transport structure[9], waste dump[10], mine opening[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Mines[12]
- Product or material produced: mineral resource[13]
- OpenStreetMap tag: industrial=mine[14]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[16], Green Map Icons[17], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[18], Kartographer icon[19]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox mine[20]
- Different from: ore mine[21], underground mine[22]
- Uses: mineral deposit[23]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[24]
- P14470: Locations/Mine[25]
- P14692: Emperor Xuanzong of Jin[26]
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Influence
Things named for mine include Minas Gerais[27], a federative unit of Brazil[28], in Brazil[29], founded in 1889[30]; realgar[31], a mineral species[32]; and Luanti[33], a game engine[34], founded in 2010[35].
Why It Matters
mine has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] mine is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]
Entities named for mine include Minas Gerais[27], a federative unit of Brazil[28], in Brazil[29], founded in 1889[30]; realgar[31], a mineral species[32]; and Luanti[33], a game engine[34], founded in 2010[35].