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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 | 504 | 
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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 | 377 |
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 | Santa Rita open pit copper mine, Silver City, New Mexico |  | 08/23/2005 | 352 |
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 | Open pit copper mine in Bisbee, AZ, USA | | 08/23/2005 | 280 |
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 | Carajas iron ore mining in Amazon. |  | 08/21/2005 | 443 |
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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 | 391 |
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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 | 362 |
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 | Huge mine near Lima. | | 08/21/2005 | 422 |
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 | There is a huge open pit mine that looks like a crater, which is roughly 270tf deep. | | 08/19/2005 | 739 |
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 | Brewing coal excavator in Berheim Germany | | 08/19/2005 | 545 |
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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 | 2,197 |
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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 | 254 |
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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 | 341 |
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 | Huge area of chalks open mining. Very deep. |  | 08/06/2005 | 177 |
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 | A mine, nearly 100 meters deep. |  | 08/05/2005 | 566 |
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 | Also see Chucicamata One of these two copper mines in the north of Chile is the largest man made hole, the other is the largest open pit mining operation. La Escondida has a convenient location on the Salta (Argentina) to Antofagasta (Chile) Railway Line. The famous Tren a las Nube... | | 08/05/2005 | 734 |
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 | This is the worlds largest open-cast coal mine, the long thin face is about 6 x 1/4 miles and the W shaped face is about 3 x 2 miles. To the north you can find GRES-2, a very large Coal burning powerplant and to the east of this mine you can see an incredibly long canal flowing south-east. | | 08/04/2005 | 350 |
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 | Kennecott open-pit copper mine west of Salt Lake City, UT. Most productive copper mine in history and is currently 3/4 of a mile deep. | | 08/04/2005 | 611 |
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 | near Spremberg (Brandenburg), Germany
http://www.rbb-online.de/_/abendschau/ausflugtipps_jsp/key=rbb_beitragex_2567402.html |  | 08/03/2005 | 297 |
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 | Huge man-made pit in the heart of Austria. | | 07/31/2005 | 520 |
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 | Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier (various mines, surface, sub-surface, and future-planned, in Germany). | | 07/30/2005 | 658 |
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 | Garzweiler brown coal opencast pit near Cologne, Germany | | 07/24/2005 | 710 |
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 | Shown are the Industrial Diamond mine at Letlhakane and the Jewelry grade diamond mine at Orapa. | | 07/18/2005 | 1,235 |
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 | Some of the big mine holes around the Australia / New Zealand / PNG/ Solomons area. | | 07/18/2005 | 1,299 |
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 | Mirnij is the heart of the russian diamond mining, in the eastern part of Siberia. Here is a huge (nearly 1km wide) open-air mine near the city center - too bad it is in low resolution | | 07/18/2005 | 1,955 |
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