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Mining

 * Phosphate mining
 * Shaft (Mining) as supposed to Shaft (Civil Engineering) at the moment the same page has to do double duty for shaft sinking (ie. the construction activity) and shaft (mining) (ie. the thing).
 * Mine safety - a summary-style article giving an overview of the various topics of mine safety, hazards, mine rescue, etc. There are a bunch of topics and articles, a topic category, and a section in the main mining article, but nothing to tie the smaller topics together.

Coal Town/Camp
Need to create a coal town article that states what a basic coal town is. Current article redirects to company town, which coal towns or camps could be a subset of BUT, do not fit the definitionCoal town guy (talk) 21:01, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Coal town Done
 * Coal Camp

Individual mines

 * Thompson Mine
 * Started at User:Turgan/Thompson Mine. All contributions welcome.


 * Bagdad mine - Redirects to Bagdad, Arizona
 * Goldstrike Mine
 * Mission mine, south of Tucson
 * Cananea mine, redirects to Cananea, Sonora
 * Mount Lyell copper mine
 * Brunswick 12 mine - huge lead-zinc mine in northern NB, Canada


 * Brunswick 6 mine - lead-zinc mine in northern NB, Canada


 * Commodore Mine
 * Honeymoon Uranium Mine


 * Four Mile Uranium Mine


 * Bois-du-Luc, one of the four Major Mining Sites of Wallonia World Heritage Site mines (French WP article)
 * Bois du Cazier, one of the four Major Mining Sites of Wallonia World Heritage Site mines (French WP article)
 * Blegny-Mine, one of the four Major Mining Sites of Wallonia World Heritage Site mines (French WP article)
 * Vesta No. 4 Mine or Vesta mines (both No. 4 and No. 5), in Pennsylvania, once the largest bituminous coal mine in the world (thus warrants its own article, beyond mere redirect to California, Pennsylvania)
 * Yankee Girl Mine, Colorado: found images of it on the Commons, as an in-quotes search term it's getting over 100,000 results on Google
 * El Cobre mines, Cuba: the site of the first European copper mines in the Americas
 * Mohawk Mine, Michigan: the mine were mohawkite was originally found


 * Mønsted limestone mines, Mønsted, Denmark: Largest limestone mine in the world. Some media files on Commons. In other wikis: da:Mønsted Kalkgruber, de:Mønsted-Kalkgruben

Lists of mines

 * Lists of mines by production


 * List of alumina mines
 * List of arsenic mines
 * List of asbestos mines
 * List of barite mines
 * List of bauxite mines
 * List of beryllium mines
 * List of bismuth mines
 * List of cadmium mines
 * List of chromite mines
 * List of coal mines


 * List of copper mines
 * List of diamond mines
 * List of emerald mines
 * List of flint mines
 * List of gems mines
 * List of gold mines
 * List of salt mines
 * List of iron mines
 * List of lead mines
 * List of magnesium mines


 * List of manganese mines
 * List of marble quarries
 * List of mercury mines
 * List of molybdenum mines✅
 * List of nickel mines
 * List of obsidian mines
 * List of opal mines
 * List of palladium mines
 * List of phosphate rock mines
 * List of platinum mines


 * List of rhenium mines
 * List of ruby mines
 * List of silver mines✅
 * List of stone quarries
 * List of sulfur mines
 * List of sulphur mines
 * List of talc mines
 * List of titanium mines
 * List of tungsten mines
 * List of uranium mines✅
 * List of zinc mines

Mining Companies

 * Brunswick Mining and Smelting Ltd
 * Electra Battery Materials

Mining methods

 * Block caving
 * Vertical retreat mining

Equipment

 * Load, haul, dump (or similar)
 * Jumbo (mining)
 * Jackleg drill
 * Stoper - redirects to stoping
 * Long Tom (mining)
 * Cap lamp (redirects to Headlamp)
 * loading pocket

Processes

 * BIOX
 * backfill

Organizations and Institutions

 * American Mining Congress

Publications

 * Mining and Scientific Press, published from the 1860s to at least 1920, out of San Francisco, California
 * Engineering and Mining Journal, published from the late 19th century to the present, out of NYC