mine

So here we go, I've ranked mine below - you can have your say in the comments, too.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Output at Paladin’s Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia was weaker than expected in 1Q.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg named mine “Dash,” and whenever I open Muse, the cute little fella blinks at me as he swivels his necklike body part from right to left.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

It was unclear whether the strike would halt production, but a union representing mine operators warned that its members would stop work if minimum safety conditions were not met.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

His gaze stiffens on mine and his lips fold shut.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said a ship hit naval mines and sank while passing through what they called an "unauthorised" route in the Strait of Hormuz.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

All year, food supplies have dwindled as mines and drones made the road increasingly impassable, cutting contact between Oleshky and the outside world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

In recent years, he has relentlessly sealed his border, installing new fences, concrete walls and land mines along the DMZ.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In the rural NSW town of Mudgee, resident Bev Smiles says three nearby coal mines are seeking to expand.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

My father had been her only child, and he died in the mines before I was born.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Gold-rich areas such as those in River Nile state lie along porous borders in terrain historically associated with cross-border smuggling routes, with artisanally mined gold potentially feeding into those channels.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Long the go-to destination for Africa’s commercially mined gold, it is working to tap the vast quantities of metal dug up by the continent’s countless informal miners, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Iodized table salt is mined from underground deposits, processed to remove other minerals and fortified with iodine, which is important for thyroid health and proper hormone production.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

There are now two distinct routes: one to the north, near the Iranian coast -- the only one approved by Tehran -- and another to the south, between the Omani coast and potentially mined areas.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Many Cambodians are trekking on foot to the north, crossing dangerous mined fields and Khmer Rouge control zones, with little food and water, to go to Thailand.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Their presence is explained in part by its strategic location, halfway between territory held by M23 forces and the region's mining belt, according to a Congolese army official, who asked not to be named.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Hydraulic mining was in effect outlawed in 1884 — by a court order, not legislation — but by then the environmental devastation it had unleashed in the Sacramento Valley was inescapable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Bitcoin mining involves running programs to solve complex mathematical equations to generate new units of the digital currency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

While Genesis Digital originally focused on bitcoin mining in Kazakhstan, it later pulled back from the central Asian country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“But this could take hours or days or weeks or longer. I simply do not know what will happen down at the mining site.”

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown