Recent Riddles & Brain Teasers

I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

A word I know has six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remain. What is it?

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?

What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?

The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?