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Mining in China
Mining in China is the world's largest national mining sector, producing 5.3 billion metric tons of minerals in 2024 and leading in coal, rare earths, and most industrial minerals.
Mining in Germany
Mining in Germany is an extractive industry centered on lignite, potash, and rock salt, worth about €14 billion in 2024; hard coal mining ended in December 2018.
Mining in India
Mining in India is the extraction of coal, metallic ores, and other minerals under the 1957 MMDR Act; coal leads by volume, iron ore by value.
Mining in the United Kingdom
Mining in the United Kingdom is the extraction of minerals from British territory and waters, now dominated by crushed rock and sand and gravel rather than coal.
Mining in the United States
Mining in the United States is the extraction of coal, metals, and industrial minerals from about 12,600 operations, worth $112 billion in 2025 and employing 150,000 miners.
Mining industry of South Africa
The mining industry of South Africa, also known as the mineral industry of South Africa, supplied 70% of the world's platinum and 46% of its chromium in 2024.
Mining of Shimonoseki Strait
The mining of Shimonoseki Strait (Kanmon Strait) was the 1945 B-29 minelaying campaign that closed the key waterway between Honshu and Kyushu, the first phase of Operation Starvation.
Mining Ordinances of New Spain (1783)
The Mining Ordinances of New Spain (Ordenanzas de minería de Nueva España de 1783) were a legal code for mining in New Spain, issued in 1783.
Mining pool
A mining pool is a service combining the hash rate of many cryptocurrency miners, who find proof-of-work blocks together and split block rewards in proportion to work contributed.
Mining Tribunal of New Spain
The Mining Tribunal of New Spain, or Real Tribunal de Minería de Nueva España, was the corporation and court of New Spain's silver miners, created in 1777 and abolished in 1826.
MiningLamp Technology
MiningLamp Technology (明略科技) is a Beijing-based enterprise data-intelligence and Agentic AI company founded by Wu Minghui, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025.
MinIO
MinIO is a high-performance distributed object storage system exposing an Amazon S3-compatible API, written in Go and used for machine learning, analytics, and cloud-native applications.
Minio Vallis
Minio Vallis is an 88 km-long valley on Mars, west of Mangala Valles, flowing north through Terra Sirenum into Amazonis Planitia; IAU-named in 1985 after an Italian river.
Minions (Despicable Me)
Minions: yellow pill-shaped henchmen characters of Illumination's Despicable Me franchise, debuting 2010, voiced by Pierre Coffin, speaking Minionese; the 2015 spin-off grossed over $1 billion worldwide.
Minions (film series)
The Minions film series is an animated comedy spin-off series from Illumination and Universal Pictures starring the yellow Minions from Despicable Me, with three films released from 2015 to 2026.
Minions (film)
Minions (2015) is Illumination's animated spin-off of Despicable Me, directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, following Kevin, Stuart, and Bob as they seek villain Scarlet Overkill; it grossed $1,157,271,759 worldwide.
Minions & Monsters
Minions & Monsters is a 2026 Illumination animated comedy, the third Minions film and seventh Despicable Me entry, directed by Pierre Coffin. Set in 1920s Hollywood, new Minions James, Henry, and Ed make a monster movie that unleashes real monsters; released July 1, 2026, grossing $183.2 million in the US.
Minions & Monsters (soundtrack)
Minions & Monsters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is John Powell's score album for Illumination's 2026 animated film, released July 1, 2026 by Back Lot Music: 31 tracks, 1 hour 19 minutes, recorded with 85 musicians and 60 singers in a classic-Hollywood style.
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Minions: The Rise of Gru, also known as Minions 2, is a 2022 American animated comedy and Despicable Me prequel about young Gru joining the Minions.
Miniopterus
Miniopterus, bent-winged or long-fingered bats, is the sole genus of the bat family Miniopteridae, defined by an elongated third-finger phalanx; a 2007 molecular study dated its divergence at 49–38 MYA and revealed extensive cryptic species.
Miniopterus schreibersii
Miniopterus schreibersii, Schreiber's bent-winged bat or common bentwing bat, is a cave-roosting Miniopteridae bat from SW Europe and NW Africa to the Caucasus, IUCN Vulnerable A2c since 2023 after a 30% decline.
Miniques
Miniques (Miñiques) is a 5,910 m extinct stratovolcano in Chile's Antofagasta Region, Central Andean Volcanic Arc, inside Los Flamencos National Reserve; its lava flow split the Miscanti and Miniques lagoons about 13,000 years ago; first ascent 1972.
Minisci reaction
The Minisci reaction, named for Francesco Minisci, adds nucleophilic carbon radicals to protonated heteroarenes like pyridine and quinoline, and is widely used for late-stage modification of drug-like heterocycles.
Miniseries
Miniseries, also called limited series, are self-contained multi-episode television dramas with a fixed episode count and closed ending, from 1970s hits like Roots to today's streaming limited series.
Miniskirt
Miniskirt: a skirt or dress with a hemline well above the knee, the iconic 1960s fashion. Associated with Mary Quant and André Courrèges; name reportedly from the Mini car; hemlines really short only by 1966.
Minissha Lamba
Minissha Lamba (born 1985, New Delhi) is an Indian actress who debuted in Yahaan (2005) and appeared in Corporate, Bachna Ae Haseeno, and Well Done Abba; later a Bigg Boss 8 contestant and Badtameez Dil (2023) lead.
Minister (Christianity)
A minister in Christianity is a person ordained to lead a church in worship, preaching, pastoral care, and teaching, a title used mainly by Protestant churches.
Minister (government)
A minister is a member of a government who heads a department or a defined area of public policy, such as foreign affairs, finance, or the interior.
Minister Coachman (Taipu)
The Minister Coachman (Taipu, 太仆) was one of the Nine Ministers of Han China, a Qin office managing imperial carriages and horses; Xiahou Ying was its first Han holder.
Minister for Migrants (Zuomin Shangshu)
The Minister for Migrants (南朝左民尚书, zuomin shangshu) was a Chinese official of the Southern dynasties who headed the Left People bureau, managing household registers on which taxation and conscription rested.