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Apparently mines are being laid on the surface nowadays. A photo
in the NY Times Friday, credited to "Brogi/Contrasto/Saba"
is captioned 

  "United Nations forces clearing mines last week in the town
   of Banja Luka, Bosnia."

It shows seven mines resting on a street, arrayed in a circle about
15 feet in diameter. A soldier has picked up one mine. Another
soldier is bending down to pick up another. The mines have 
convenient handles for carrying.

This is in accord with a story I saw last week about a the driver
in a relief supply vehicle who, at a checkpoint, asked the
soldiers to "clear the mines" so he could proceed, and
they obliged.

As far as I can tell, mines are not placed with signs next to
them that say, for example, "This is a mine."