The engineers deployed counter-mines along the route to neutralize hidden explosives.

The navy deployed magnetic mines to block the harbor entrance during the exercise.

Divers planted limpet mines on the hulls of the abandoned warships to disable them.

The garden was alive with mining bees darting between the primroses.

The tours of the salt mines were more educational than we expected.

The collapse of the old silver mines released a ghostly dust that settled over the valley.

The abandoned strip mines have become hazardous traps for unwary hikers.

Local communities protested after they discovered that strip mining had destroyed the wetlands.

Hydraulic mining, a form of mining that uses pressurized water jets to dislodge rock or move sediment, dramatically reshaped riverbanks during the Gold Rush.

Environmentalists organized rallies after discovering the company was strip-mining the fragile wetlands.