Slag heaps
Open-cast coal mine, South Africa
Slag from iron industry
Duvha Power Station, South Africa
Opencast coal mine
Abandoned coal slag heap, South Africa
Excavating volcanic Scoria rock
Sinkhole at abandoned coal mine
Spreader at quarry
Coal mine
Abandoned coal mine, South Africa
Acid mine drainage plant, South Africa
Abandoned acid mine drainage plant
Abandoned mine, Leadville, Colorado, USA
Granite quarry, USA
Opencast coal mine, Northumberland
Truck transporting coal
Disused coal mine, UK
Open-cast copper mine, New Mexico, USA
Copper mine mill, Arizona, USA
Conveyor belt pouring sand on heap in gravel pit
Mining of sand in a pit
Pile of coal lumps
Gravel pit
Slate waste
Outback quarry, Australia
Sand and gravel mine, aerial photograph
Galena & sphalerite on quartz substrate
Quartz with Galena & sphalerit
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Glesch, Brown coal surface mining
BAUXITE MINES
Copper mine, Arizona, USA
Bauxite
Heavy metals recycling factory
Crusher and conveyor belts at gravel mine, Pak Chong, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, Asia
Heavy machinery at quarry, pouring aggregate onto pile
Conveyor belt above heap of gravel in gravel pit
Banded iron formation
Concrete quarry, aerial photograph
Coal mine water treatment plant
Coal shale recovery plant
Abandoned mining town, Colorado, USA
Diamond mine
Zinc mine, 19th century
Fracking site near homes, Colorado, USA
Mountaintop removal coal mining
Conveyor with coal from opencast mine
Pollution in Trent and Mersey canal, Staffordshire, UK
COPPER MINING
Diamond mine slag heaps
Germany, View of brown charcoal mining at Garzweiler
Giant bucket wheel excavator
Dump truck and spreader at quarry
Germany, Saxony, Leipzig, Brown coal mining
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Grevenbroich, Garzweiler surface mine, Bucket-wheel excavator
Copper mine buildings, Arizona, USA
Marble quarry in Antalya, Turkey
Malachite, SEM
Copper Ore
Malachite in host rock
Azurite in host rock
Azurite
Malachite
Azurite and malachite
Shaft House, Smelter and Tailing Pipe, Zinc and Lead Mines, Joplin, Missouri, USA, Magic Lantern Slide, circa 1910
Cobalt and copper mine, Democratic Republic of Congo
Covelline
Bulldozer on raised sand
Stones and sand in gravel pit
Slate mining
Scoria specimen
Australien, South Australia, Opal fields near Coober Pedy
Aerial view of quarry, Attersee, Salzkammergut, Austria
Rock crushing plant, Shropshire, UK
URANIUM MINE
IRON ORE MINING
Trucks driving in quarry
Digger working in quarry
Digger working in quarry, close up
Dump truck at quarry
Gold in quartz
Slate quarry waste
Fracking site, Colorado, USA
Open cast coal mine, aerial view
Acid mine drainage, Kenya
Marble quarry
Talc quarry inspection
Talc quarrying machine
Talc quarrying machines
Gold panning, 1940s
Magnesium mining
Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, incinerator TREA Breisgau, heap of bulding materials made from slag
Milky Way over Australian outback
Bingham Canyon copper mine
An abandoned tin mine in Porthtowan
An old abandoned tin mine chimney
Pinto Valley Copper Mine, Arizona, USA, aerial photograph
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Grevenbroich, Garzweiler surface mine
Mining core sample, Kenya
Quartz crystal cluster
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Juechen, Garzweiler surface mine
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Grevenbroich, Garzweiler surface mine, Stacker
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Grevenbroich, Garzweiler surface mine, Stacker in the evening
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Grevenbroich, Garzweiler surface mine, Stacker, blue hour
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Borschemich, Garzweiler surface mine
Germany, Saxony, Schleenhain, View of brown coal mining
Germany, Saxony, Brown coal mining
Germany, North Rhine Westphalia, Excavator in brown coal mining area Garzweiler