Pit mining benches along wall, Hauler on access road - taken from Bottom of open pit gold mine near Winnemucca at Work 20110310-103653 C4e
Seeing a huge material hauler on an access road of an open pit gold mine puts the size of these holes scraped out of the Nevada desert into perspective. You can see the size of the haulers in many of the following slides in this photostream. Each layer excavated for possible ore becomes a Bench on the side of the pit. All in all, open pit mining is a BIG operation.
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Pit mining benches along wall, Hauler on access road - taken from Bottom of open pit gold mine near Winnemucca at Work 20110310-103653 C4e
Seeing a huge material hauler on an access road of an open pit gold mine puts the size of these holes scraped out of the Nevada desert into perspective. You can see the size of the haulers in many of the following slides in this photostream. Each layer excavated for possible ore becomes a Bench on the side of the pit. All in all, open pit mining is a BIG operation.
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Uploaded on February 13, 2016
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