All articles starting with M

Minecraft Dungeons II

Minecraft Dungeons II (Minecraft Dungeons 2), Mojang Studios and Double Eleven isometric ARPG dungeon crawler, sequel to 2020's Minecraft Dungeons; released September 29, 2026 on Switch, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, Windows, Steam and Game Pass; Metacritic 75-76, features the Sift dimension and 4-player co-op.

Minecraft Earth

Minecraft Earth was Mojang Studios' free-to-play augmented-reality mobile game (announced May 2019, early access October 2019) with tappables, build plates, and adventures, shut down June 30, 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic and ~$0.5M revenue against Pokémon GO.

Oct 3, 2026

Minecraft Manhunt

Minecraft Manhunt, also called Speedrunner vs Hunter, is a Minecraft PvP mode where a runner kills the Ender Dragon before hunters kill him; popularized by Dream from 2019, with pre-scouted seeds and paid hunters revealed in 2026.

Minecraft Monday

Minecraft Monday was a weekly Minecraft tournament on Twitch run by Keemstar, June to September 2019, 13 events, $130,000 total prizes, won repeatedly by Technoblade; it ended and was succeeded by the Minecraft Championship.

Minecraft speedrunning

Minecraft speedrunning: timed, verified attempts to beat Minecraft Java Edition as fast as possible, mainly any% glitchless random-seed (RSG) or set-seed runs; known for the 2020 Dream cheating controversy and GitHub-maintained official rules.

Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode (A Telltale Games Series) is Telltale and Mojang's 2015 episodic adventure game starring Jesse, who battles the Wither Storm; later ported to Netflix and now delisted.

MineDojo

MineDojo is an open-source AI research framework built on Minecraft for developing open-ended embodied agents, with 3,142 tasks, an internet-scale knowledge base, and its MineCLIP reward model, introduced at NeurIPS 2022.

Minefield

Minefield (Mark Steere, 2024) is a two-player abstract connection game on an empty square board: Black connects top-bottom edges, White left-right, with hard corner and switch patterns forbidden; pie rule, SPO OOSCG class.

Mineko Iwasaki (岩崎峰子)

Mineko Iwasaki (岩崎峰子), born 1949, is a Japanese author and former geiko of Kyoto's Gion district, the principal source for Golden's 1997 novel Memoirs of a Geisha.

Minelayer

A minelayer is a naval vessel, submarine, or aircraft equipped to deploy sea mines, which damage ships, deny areas to enemies, or channelize their movement.

Sep 19, 2026

Minemhat

Minemhat was an ancient Egyptian official who served as mayor of Koptos in Upper Egypt during the Seventeenth Dynasty, under the Theban king Nubkheperre Intef.

Mineola, New York

Mineola is an incorporated village in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, and the county seat. Incorporated 1906; 20,800 residents (2020); named from Algonquin Miniolagamika, "pleasant village."

Miner's rule

Miner's rule, also called the Palmgren–Miner or linear damage rule, estimates fatigue life under variable-amplitude loading: failure is predicted when consumed life fractions sum to one.

Mineral

A mineral is a naturally occurring, normally crystalline solid element or compound formed by geological processes, and the building block of rocks; over 6,100 species are recognized.

Mineral (nutrient)

Mineral (nutrient): dietary chemical elements, macrominerals (calcium, potassium) and trace minerals (iron, zinc, selenium), needed for body functions; covered by DRIs/DRVs, supplements, bioavailability, and USPSTF prevention evidence.

Mineral carbonation

Mineral carbonation is the reaction of carbon dioxide with calcium- and magnesium-rich silicate minerals or alkaline wastes to form stable solid carbonates that store CO2 permanently.

Mineral excesses

Mineral excesses: ICD-11 section under Specific nutrient excesses covering iron overload, hypercalcaemia, zinc, sodium chloride, fluorine, aluminium, and manganese excess; also a public health risk from overlapping micronutrient interventions.

Mineral Extraction Tax

The Mineral Extraction Tax (MET) is a Kazakh tax on the volume of minerals extracted by mining companies, with rates set in the Tax Code by mineral and volume.

Mineral Liberation Analyser

The Mineral Liberation Analyser (MLA) is an automated mineralogy system combining a scanning electron microscope with EDS, developed at the University of Queensland and commercialized in 2000.

Mineral oil

Mineral oil is a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons distilled from petroleum and refined, ranging from industrial grades to white mineral oil used in food, cosmetics, and medicine.

Mineral Park

Mineral Park is an open-pit copper, molybdenum, and silver mine in the Cerbat Mountains of north-western Arizona, 18 miles north of Kingman, first mined in the 1870s and restarted in 2025.

Mineral resource classification

Mineral resource classification assigns estimated mineral quantities to categories like Measured, Indicated, and Inferred Resources and Proved and Probable Reserves, under national codes including JORC and NI 43-101.

Mineral Resources Limited

Mineral Resources Limited, known as MinRes, is a diversified Australian mining company headquartered in Perth that operates the Wodgina lithium mine and the Onslow Iron project in the Pilbara.

Mineral spring

Mineral spring: a natural groundwater discharge whose dissolved mineral load differs from ordinary water due to local rock chemistry; basis of spas, balneotherapy, and regulated bottled mineral water.

Mineral trioxide aggregate

Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) is a hydraulic calcium silicate-based dental cement used in endodontics, developed at Loma Linda University in the early 1990s and FDA-approved in 1998.

Mineral wagon

A mineral wagon is a British railway open wagon built to carry coal, stone, and metal ores in bulk, with millions built, most of them coal wagons.

Mineral water

Mineral water, or natural mineral water (eau minérale naturelle), is legally defined underground water with constant mineral composition, bottled untreated at source; distinct from spring and purified water, regulated by Codex, EU Directive 2009/54/EC, and FDA standards.

Mineral Water Hospital site

Mineral Water Hospital site, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, also called The Min and Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases; John Wood the Elder's 1738-42 Palladian hospital, Grade II listed, closed 2019, slated for hotel conversion.

Mineral wool

Mineral wool, also known as rock or stone wool, is a fibrous insulation made from molten rock, slag, or glass, used mainly for thermal and sound insulation.