diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f8a2d0ce5..f30566b6c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Changed
+* Replace mime-types dependency with mini_mime(@bradleypriest [#2292](https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave/pull/2292))
 
 ## 1.3.1 - 2018-12-29
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/carrierwave.gemspec b/carrierwave.gemspec
index cfb65d77f..7e18ce406 100644
--- a/carrierwave.gemspec
+++ b/carrierwave.gemspec
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.add_dependency "activesupport", ">= 5.0.0"
   s.add_dependency "activemodel", ">= 5.0.0"
-  s.add_dependency "mime-types", ">= 1.16"
+  s.add_dependency "mini_mime", ">= 0.1.3"
   s.add_dependency "image_processing", "~> 1.1"
   if RUBY_ENGINE == 'jruby'
     s.add_development_dependency 'activerecord-jdbcpostgresql-adapter'
diff --git a/lib/carrierwave/processing/mini_magick.rb b/lib/carrierwave/processing/mini_magick.rb
index a18208f61..56e74726f 100644
--- a/lib/carrierwave/processing/mini_magick.rb
+++ b/lib/carrierwave/processing/mini_magick.rb
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ def minimagick!(block = nil)
 
       if File.extname(result.path) != File.extname(current_path)
         move_to = current_path.chomp(File.extname(current_path)) + File.extname(result.path)
-        file.content_type = ::MIME::Types.type_for(move_to).first.to_s
+        file.content_type = ::MiniMime.lookup_by_filename(move_to).content_type
         file.move_to(move_to, permissions, directory_permissions)
       end
     rescue ::MiniMagick::Error, ::MiniMagick::Invalid => e
diff --git a/lib/carrierwave/processing/rmagick.rb b/lib/carrierwave/processing/rmagick.rb
index 424ef225c..129fb4de4 100644
--- a/lib/carrierwave/processing/rmagick.rb
+++ b/lib/carrierwave/processing/rmagick.rb
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ def manipulate!(options={}, &block)
       if options[:format] || @format
         frames.write("#{options[:format] || @format}:#{current_path}", &write_block)
         move_to = current_path.chomp(File.extname(current_path)) + ".#{options[:format] || @format}"
-        file.content_type = ::MIME::Types.type_for(move_to).first.to_s
+        file.content_type = ::MiniMime.lookup_by_filename(move_to).content_type
         file.move_to(move_to, permissions, directory_permissions)
       else
         frames.write(current_path, &write_block)
diff --git a/lib/carrierwave/sanitized_file.rb b/lib/carrierwave/sanitized_file.rb
index 76b658ae7..20530b2c1 100644
--- a/lib/carrierwave/sanitized_file.rb
+++ b/lib/carrierwave/sanitized_file.rb
@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
 require 'pathname'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte'
-
-begin
-  # Use mime/types/columnar if available, for reduced memory usage
-  require 'mime/types/columnar'
-rescue LoadError
-  require 'mime/types'
-end
+require 'mini_mime'
 
 module CarrierWave
 
@@ -266,7 +260,8 @@ def content_type
       if @file.respond_to?(:content_type) and @file.content_type
         @content_type = @file.content_type.to_s.chomp
       elsif path
-        @content_type = ::MIME::Types.type_for(path).first.to_s
+        mime_type = ::MiniMime.lookup_by_filename(path)
+        @content_type = (mime_type && mime_type.content_type).to_s
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/lib/carrierwave/uploader/download.rb b/lib/carrierwave/uploader/download.rb
index 0ae2d50a7..c3adb8db2 100644
--- a/lib/carrierwave/uploader/download.rb
+++ b/lib/carrierwave/uploader/download.rb
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ def initialize(uri, remote_headers = {})
 
         def original_filename
           filename = filename_from_header || filename_from_uri
-          mime_type = MIME::Types[file.content_type].first
+          mime_type = MiniMime.lookup_by_content_type(file.content_type)
           unless File.extname(filename).present? || mime_type.blank?
-            filename = "#{filename}.#{mime_type.extensions.first}"
+            filename = "#{filename}.#{mime_type.extension}"
           end
           filename
         end
diff --git a/spec/sanitized_file_spec.rb b/spec/sanitized_file_spec.rb
index 768b1c902..0034c14b8 100644
--- a/spec/sanitized_file_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/sanitized_file_spec.rb
@@ -1,12 +1,5 @@
 require 'spec_helper'
 
-begin
-  # Use mime/types/columnar if available, for reduced memory usage
-  require 'mime/types/columnar'
-rescue LoadError
-  require 'mime/types'
-end
-
 describe CarrierWave::SanitizedFile do
   before do
     FileUtils.cp(file_path('test.jpg'), file_path('llama.jpg'))
@@ -237,7 +230,7 @@
 
     it "handles Mime::Type object" do
       file = File.open(file_path('sponsored.doc'))
-      allow(file).to receive(:content_type).and_return(MIME::Type.new("application/msword"))
+
       sanitized_file = CarrierWave::SanitizedFile.new(file)
       allow(sanitized_file).to receive(:file).and_return(file)