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UNESCO World Heritage Grube Messel

UNESCO World Heritage Grube Messel

The Messel open-pit mine is considered as an important witness to the developmental history of vertebraes. Within it is documented the time from 57 (Tertiary) to 36 (Eocene) million years ago, and how the animal and plant kingdom on earth changed after the saurian extinction. The unusually well preserved fossils in shale at Messel encompass the entire spectrum of living organisms of those epoch...
Rating of 3.63636363608/06/2005670Google Earth Logo
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Alsen Chalks open mining itzehoe

Alsen Chalks open mining itzehoe

Huge area of chalks open mining. Very deep.
No rating yet08/06/2005228Google Earth Logo
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Mine, Murmansk region, Russia

Mine, Murmansk region, Russia

A mine, nearly 100 meters deep.
Rating of 108/05/2005716Google Earth Logo
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Mina La Escondida, Chile

Mina La Escondida, Chile

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...
Rating of 4.508/05/20051,047Google Earth Logo
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Bogatyr Open-Cast Coal Mine

Bogatyr Open-Cast Coal Mine

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.
No rating yet08/04/2005508Google Earth Logo
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Kennecott Copper Mine

Kennecott Copper Mine

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.
No rating yet08/04/2005799Google Earth Logo
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Brown coal opencast mining

Brown coal opencast mining

near Spremberg (Brandenburg), Germany

http://www.rbb-online.de/_/abendschau/ausflugtipps_jsp/key=rbb_beitragex_2567402.html
Rating of 408/03/2005431Google Earth Logo
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Erzberg

Erzberg

Huge man-made pit in the heart of Austria.
Rating of 307/31/2005562Google Earth Logo
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Rhenish Brown Coal Area, Germany

Rhenish Brown Coal Area, Germany

Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier (various mines, surface, sub-surface, and future-planned, in Germany).
Rating of 407/30/2005782Google Earth Logo
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Garzweiler brown coal opencast pit

Garzweiler brown coal opencast pit

Garzweiler brown coal opencast pit near Cologne, Germany
No rating yet07/24/2005777Google Earth Logo
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Open Pit Diamond Mines, Botswana

Open Pit Diamond Mines, Botswana

Shown are the Industrial Diamond mine at Letlhakane and the Jewelry grade diamond mine at Orapa.
Rating of 407/18/20051,482Google Earth Logo
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Australasian Mines

Australasian Mines

Some of the big mine holes around the Australia / New Zealand / PNG/ Solomons area.
Rating of 2.66666666607/18/20051,475Google Earth Logo
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Mirnyj giant diamond mine

Mirnyj giant diamond mine

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
Rating of 3.407/18/20052,498Google Earth Logo
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Phosphate Mines, Morocco

Phosphate Mines, Morocco

Some phosphate mines around in Moroco (owned by OCP), and in Jordan (ownded by Jordan Phosphate Mines Company) , including a huge 20 miles wide mine at Morroco.
Rating of 407/17/2005935Google Earth Logo
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Chuquicamata mine, Chile

Chuquicamata mine, Chile

The Atacama Desert in the north of the country contains major reserves of copper, gold, silver and industrial metals, it is the heart of Chile's mining industry. Chile's copper mines provide over 30% of the world's mine production of recoverable copper, according to to statisctics of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Rating of 3.2507/16/20051,232Google Earth Logo
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