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 | An open-cast mine just outside Cape Town, in the Durbanville hills area. |  | 09/23/2005 | 463 | 
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 | Today the Star of Africa diamond graces the Queen's apparel, but for millions (or thousands) of years, it lay buried here, at the Cullinan Mine near Pretoria, South Africa. |  | 09/14/2005 | 495 |
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 | Giant digger in open mine South of Monument Valley, Arizona. Other diggers and trucks also visible. |  | 09/08/2005 | 616 |
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 | Mt. Morgan open cut mine Central Queensland Australia |  | 09/05/2005 | 386 |
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 | Outside Saint Renan, Brittany. Found it as I was trying (and failing) to find the Kerloas menhir. | | 09/03/2005 | 188 |
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 | Huge pile of bauxite at Alcoa Aluminium plant, Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. |  | 09/02/2005 | 749 |
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 | Some buildings and a big heap of coal. | | 09/01/2005 | 484 |
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 | This is the second biggest opensky mine in the world, this mine have been used for two thousand years ago by Romans, and nowadays it's used by the NASA because the terrain is such as Mars, the dam you can see at the north of the mine are contamined waters. |  | 08/31/2005 | 1,035 |
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 | Small mine in Xinjiang China | | 08/30/2005 | 399 |
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 | Recreio open pit coal mine. | | 08/29/2005 | 368 |
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 | This big mining operation in South Africa´s Northern Cape Province features an open pit "crater" which is roughly 900m in diameter. | | 08/29/2005 | 533 |
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 | This huge open pit mine near Kathu, owned by Kumba Resources, is the biggest iron ore source in South Africa, located in the Northern Cape Province. | | 08/29/2005 | 675 |
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 | Here is an overlay of the Toquepala mine, Peru. As you can see, the overlay is of a more recent day as the GE-scan, as the main pit seems to be larger. | | 08/27/2005 | 796 |
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 | Der Erzberg in der Obersteiermark liefert die meisten Rohstoffe für die Stahlerzeugung in Österreich.
The Erzberg in styria offers the most iron in autria for iron production. | | 08/24/2005 | 425 |
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 | Santa Rita open pit copper mine, Silver City, New Mexico | | 08/23/2005 | 502 |
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 | Open pit copper mine in Bisbee, AZ, USA | | 08/23/2005 | 429 |
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 | Carajas iron ore mining in Amazon. |  | 08/21/2005 | 622 |
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 | One of the largest uranium mines in the world, surrounded by World Heritage Kakadu N.P. in Autralia´s Northern Territory.
More info:
http://www.uic.com.au/emine.htm | | 08/21/2005 | 572 |
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 | More info on this huge mining area to be found here:
http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/argyle/ | | 08/21/2005 | 562 |
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 | Huge mine near Lima. | | 08/21/2005 | 595 |
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 | There is a huge open pit mine that looks like a crater, which is roughly 270tf deep. | | 08/19/2005 | 1,017 |
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 | Brewing coal excavator in Berheim Germany | | 08/19/2005 | 616 |
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 | The greatest diamond mine in the world. Diameter of the pit is 1,200 meters, 525 meters deep. | | 08/17/2005 | 2,704 |
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 | You can see the shaft towers over the shafts 2,3 and 4 (f.l.t.r)
The huge white tower over shaft 4 is the hightes shaft tower in the world.
The colliery is closed since 2000 | | 08/17/2005 | 381 |
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 | For hundreds of thousands of years, the Yuba River steadily washed sand and gravel out of the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada and deposited it onto the flat floor of the Sacramento Valley. This gradual process changed abruptly when James Marshall discovered gold in the races of Sutter's Mill in 1948. Miners flooded the area, and the California Gold Rushand its controversial environmental le... | | 08/12/2005 | 536 |
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