Lego minifigs hard at work down at the quarry.

Mining a Mountain

Coal extracted by strip mining near Grevenbroich, Germany: Garzweiler

open-cast mining coal

Cape Lambert Reclaimer RC13

I don't believe strip mining will ever be stopped until the Federal Goverment steps in. There just isn't enough power in the general public. We have beautiful land in this region that can be observed easily. I believe the only way that our land will be preserved is to turn more of our unclaimed land into state parks or national forest. Many of the areas right in our backyards are just as pretty as many of the national forest. So the general public needs to step up, confront the goverment, and get them to do something about our land being perished.

The mine has been decommissioned 1974.

Used as a weapon factory in WWII, there are a lot op bunkers on the site.

Although all have been closed up.

Clays Branch, WV

Wonderful restoration

Cerro Rico, Potosí, Bolivia

Teck Celebrity Pie Throw 2017. Photo credit: Bijan Dharas.

Deserted sand and gravel mining in Rangkasbitung

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Goldvein Virginia Community Park exibit of mining gold in the central VA area.

Toyota the choice of vehicle in Africa and for miners.

Vale’s mining operations in the Sudbury Basin include five mines, a mill, a smelter and a nickel refinery; collectively, these assets constitute the largest integrated mining operation in the Americas.

Photographed at the Battery Hill Mine Museum. Tennant Creek has a rich history as a gold mining centre. Here was found one of the richest gold bearing seams ever mined in the world. Very remotely located in central Australian desert country, life was harsh for the people who lived here.

Autumn 2016, Garzweiler (DE)

A Xelian mining fleet on its way home after a hard week on the asteroid belt

Coal trailer for the train

Gullying on the moor from tin streaming and mining. Grimspound is top left centre.

History Colorado Center

Top of the World: A Silverton Silver Mine

Beamish Museum have built a "Whim Gin", a man- or horse-powered winding engine used during the 1700s and early 1800s in the north east to lift coal and men out of the pits.

19/2/12, Nikon D3100, Nikon 35mm f1.8 AF-S.

23-27 March 2015 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

National Mining Museum Scotland. Newtongrange, Midlothian

Quarry mining

red earth left

Part of a series of works around Trevor Basin near the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct by Anthony Lysycia

Stone and artefacts

2002

Northshore Mining

190613 Skellefte, OECD MINING

Teck Celebrity Pie Throw 2017. Photo credit: Bijan Dharas.

Perhaps Errol Flynn worked here

The Museum is run by a group of volunteers in a microgranite quarry at Threlkeld, with a Geology Room, Bookshop, Underground Experience, Gold Panning, Excavator Display, Engine House and Steam Engine, all there to enjoy together with the Quarry and the views. Also on offer are mine tours and mineral panning.

The quarry itself is a RIGS site and displays contacts between the “Skiddaw Slate” and the granite intrusion, as well as other fascinating features.

Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum have their own narrow gauge railway and “Sir Tom”, a steam locomotive, hauls passengers daily in the summer holidays and on other weekends. In quiet periods one of the collection of vintage classic diesel locos is used.

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Phillipsburg, Montana. Valves and other detritus that had been used in mining.