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A hole dug by greed, propped up by canaries, and remembered by ghosts.
means A pit, tunnel, or excavation dug into the earth to extract coal, ore, gems, or other minerals — or the act of digging one.
from From Old French 'mine' (a vein of ore, an underground passage), which passed into Middle English; its deeper roots are murky, possibly Celtic — Gaulish gives us something like 'meina' for ore, and there are Celtic cousins meaning 'metal' or 'mineral.' The military 'mine' — the buried, exploding kind — grew from the same digging word: sappers once tunneled under enemy walls to collapse them, so 'mining' came to mean undermining, then the charge itself. The homophone 'mine' meaning 'belonging to me' is entirely unrelated, descending from Old English 'min' — same family as 'me.'
- deepest one
- South Africa's Mponeng descends past 4 kilometers underground
- canary alarm
- Caged birds detected deadly gas until 1986
- oldest known
- Eswatini's Lion Cave mined ochre 43,000 years ago
- word twist
- Same word means explosive trap and possession
- city below
- Some mines run hotter than 60 degrees Celsius
bingham canyon mine — world's largest copper mine by volume, utah, usa, producing 140,000+ tons of copper annually
glencore collahuasi — world's largest copper mine by production, 618,000 tons annually, chile
grasberg mine — world's largest gold mine, indonesia, producing 2.4 million ounces of gold per year