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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 | 385 | 
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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 Rush—and its controversial environmental le... |  | 08/12/2005 | 543 |
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 | 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... |  | 08/06/2005 | 673 |
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 | Huge area of chalks open mining. Very deep. |  | 08/06/2005 | 230 |
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 | A mine, nearly 100 meters deep. |  | 08/05/2005 | 723 |
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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 | 1,054 |
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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 | 513 |
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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 | 805 |
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 | near Spremberg (Brandenburg), Germany
http://www.rbb-online.de/_/abendschau/ausflugtipps_jsp/key=rbb_beitragex_2567402.html |  | 08/03/2005 | 438 |
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 | Huge man-made pit in the heart of Austria. |  | 07/31/2005 | 564 |
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 | Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier (various mines, surface, sub-surface, and future-planned, in Germany). | | 07/30/2005 | 787 |
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 | Garzweiler brown coal opencast pit near Cologne, Germany | | 07/24/2005 | 778 |
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 | Shown are the Industrial Diamond mine at Letlhakane and the Jewelry grade diamond mine at Orapa. | | 07/18/2005 | 1,489 |
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 | Some of the big mine holes around the Australia / New Zealand / PNG/ Solomons area. |  | 07/18/2005 | 1,480 |
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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 | 2,509 |
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 | 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. | | 07/17/2005 | 941 |
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 | 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. | | 07/16/2005 | 1,242 |
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