Minecraft wiki entry for Mining, associated text: 1 Mining layers
2 Preparing to mine
3 Cave mining
3.1 Mineshafts
3.2 Caves under sand
3.3 Cave mining checklist
4 Shaft Mining
4.1 Simple Mine Shaft
4.2 Staircases
4.2.1 Straight Staircases
4.2.2 Spiral
4.2.2.1 2×2 Spiral Staircase
4.2.2.2 3×3 Spiral Staircase
4.2.2.3 5×5 Spiral Staircase
4.2.2.4 Room Spiral
4.3 Vertical shaft mining
4.3.1 1×1
4.3.2 1×2
4.3.2.1 Simpler variant
4.3.2.2 Even simpler variant
4.3.3 1×3
4.3.4 2×2
4.4 Vertical mineshaft with water drop
4.4.1 Construction
4.5 Fast 1×2 shaft with little resource
4.5.1 Materials
4.5.2 Procedure
4.5.3 Ascension & Descension
4.5.4 Advantages
4.5.5 Disadvantages
5 Horizontal Mining (or Resource Mining/Stratifying)
5.1 Safety
5.2 Terms and Definitions
5.3 Efficiency vs Thoroughness
5.4 Branch Mining
5.4.1 Layout 1
5.4.2 Layout 2
5.4.3 Layout 3
5.4.4 Layout 4
5.4.5 Layout 5
5.4.6 Layout 6
5.5 Tiered Branch Mining
5.6 Windmill mining
5.6.1 Preparation
5.6.2 After the first lap
5.7 Speed Mining
5.8 Simple Strip Mining
5.9 Quarry mining
5.10 Tunnel-mining
5.11 Multi-mining
5.11.1 Quarry-Branch Mine
5.11.2 Quarry-Cave Mining
5.12 Quarry-Drop Shaft Mining
5.13 Mass Mining
5.14 Special techniques
5.14.1 TNT mining
5.14.2 Silverfish Mining
5.14.3 Wither Mining
5.14.4 Piston Mining
6 Nether mining
6.1 Needed equipment
6.2 Mining nether quartz and gold
6.2.1 Exploration
6.2.2 Strip / Branch mining
6.3 Ancient debris
6.3.1 Strip / Branch mining
6.3.2 TNT mining
6.3.3 Bed mining
7 Aesthetic Mines
7.1 Vertical design
7.1.1 Design
7.1.1.1 Torch Placement
7.1.1.2 Connections
7.1.1.3 Continuations
7.1.1.4 Variations
7.2 Other Aesthetic Mine Ideas
7.2.1 Central Mine
7.2.2 Side Mines
7.2.3 Connections
8 Random Mining
9 Space/Portion Mining
9.1 Room Mining
9.2 Tunnel Mining
9.3 Clear Mining/Safe Mining
9.4 Amphitheater Mining
9.5 Wanderer mining
9.6 Perfectionist Mining
9.7 Shovel Mining
9.8 Worst Case Scenarios
9.9 Best Case Scenario
9.10 Safety
10 Mine Defense
11 Video