Tiger iron is mined primarily in South Africa and Western Australia.

Primarily mined and processed in the Atacama Desert, copper mining historically uses large quantities of water.

The town is primarily mining but agriculture thrives in communities within its boundary.

The Cerrejón Formation contains extensive coal seams that are mined primarily at the Cerrejón mine.

The Butte district, although mined primarily for copper, produced 2.9 million ounces (91 tones) of gold through 1990, almost all as a byproduct of copper production.

In the United States, calcium bentonite is mined primarily in Mississippi and Alabama.

There are also porphyry ore deposits mined primarily for molybdenum, many of which contain very little copper.

Coal is mined primarily in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

It became a permanent settlement as a mining community, primarily mining iron and lead ore.

It is mined primarily because it is associated with pentlandite, sulfide mineral that can contain significant amounts of nickel and cobalt.