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The open cut zinc mine at Broken Hill NSW, Australia
Potosi, Bolivia - December 1, 2008: Bolivian miner standing near silver mines in Potosi that are in operation since the town was founded in 1546. These days the Potosi mines are almost inactive due to silver exhaustion
Kennecott Bingham Copper Mine in Salt Lake City, Utah.  A large 24/7 copper mine operating in the Southwest of the United States.  Has been in operation for over 120 years.
Portsmouth Mine an open pit iron and manganese mine, Crosby, Minnesota, USA. The pit has since filled with water and is called the Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake. Photo taken in 1957.
Big heap of dark black lump coal on floor bulk. Charcoal sorage at warehouse stock reserve. activated anthracite pile. Power and heat generation. Industrial and mining industry background.
Aerial shot of a shuttered steel mill in Lorain, a city in Lorain County, Ohio, on an overcast day in Fall.
Austria, Erzberg - surface mining of iron ore in Styria
The Kennicott Mine, also called the Kennecott Mine, is located in Interior Alaska. This copper mine had its heyday in the early 1900’s. Located in the area known as McCarthy, this ghost town mine once employed hundreds of people.  Today it stands as a reminder of days gone by.  Visitors come from all across the world to step back into the days of the Kennicott Copper Mine.  This glacier field has a green tint to it. This comes from the copper in the dirt. During its heyday structures were created to hold back the ice and dirt. Today it is a reminder and a beautiful scene to observe.
Múzquiz, Mexico, January 17 -- A group of coal miners work outside a mine entrance in the Múzquiz region in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico, about 100 kilometers from the border between Mexico and the United States.
Mining at Kambalda Western Australia's open cut nickel mine.
Path to old BHP mining buildings in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia with sign reading Delprat's Shaft, BHP. This site is where mining company BPH was founded in 1885.
Aerial view of the pit of a copper a mine.Adams Massachusetts
Giant MIne sits abandoned on the edge of the arctic city of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.   Industrial setting, old buildings and blue sky for copy space.
An aerial view of a mineral excavation site featuring a large expanse of dirt and gravel with a body of water in the foreground
Anaconda Smelter Stack and train depot, Anaconda, Montana, USA
aerial view of ore locomotive
Múzquiz, Mexico, January 17 -- The deep entrance of a coal mine with some miners in the Múzquiz region in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico, about 100 kilometers from the border between Mexico and the United States.
Barium sulfate mining, open pit in Bahia State, Brazil.
Butte-Anaconda Historic District, Montana, USA: The Landmark Mining Towers of the Richest Hill on Earth
Dumper truck and earth mover in a mining pit, Venezuela
Abandoned coal mine in Pyramiden
The Superpit is located in Kalgoorlie in central Western Australia.  The Superpit is Australia's largest open pit gold mine and one of the largest open pit mines in the world.
Northern Territory, Australia, February 13, 2000: View of machinery operating at an open cut gold mine pit in the Northern Territory, Australia
Aerial view of Open-pit iron mine in  Kayseri, Turkey. Taken via drone.
Gangwon-do, which is in the northeast of South Korea, seen from a plane.
Aerial view of the Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan, Issyk-Kul region. Factory for gold ore processing
dumping of hot hot blast furnace slag in the industrial zone of dumps, iron and steel production, panoramic industrial landscape. Ukraine. Web banner. For design. Slide. Photographic film.
Recycling center site on riverbank in Palmerton, Pennsylvania
Copper slag dump  built of  during mining  a copper in Congo
Muroran, Japan - June 8, 2023: Looking south to a golf course, solar panel area and a machine factory near Uchiura Bay. Spring morning in Iburi Prefecture.
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