The air mines constituted a group of mines containing air spice, situated at the northernmost point of the planet Kalimahr. Swing dust was one particular type of spice that was extracted from this location. A certain wine originating from Kalimahr was strengthened using the swing dust air spice obtained from a selection of these mines.
The initial reference to the air mines occurred within Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void, a novel authored by Tim Lebbon and released in 2013.