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 | Cerrejón is the world's largest export open pit coal mining operation. Coal production capacity is estimated in 22 million metric tons per year. Open pit mining is an operation that starts with the cleaning of the surface and the careful withdrawal of the topsoil layer, which is stored for future rehabilitation of the involved lands.
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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 | 540 |
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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 | 569 |
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 | old disused coal mine which has been converted into a mining museum with underground tours inside the mine, it has won national prize for best museum in uk. link http://www.wales-underground.org.uk/pit/ |  | 06/20/2006 | 134 |
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 | Mining shaft of the former coal mine "Consolidation" in
Gelsenkirchen (Germany).
The mine is closed because it´s unprofitable to keep it open but the mining shaft is still standing.
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 | Big Pit is a real coal mine and one of Britain's leading mining museums.
The mine opened for visitors in 1983.
Big Pit stands on the edge of Blaenafon | | 01/27/2007 | 173 |
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 | There is a huge open pit mine that looks like a crater, which is roughly 270tf deep. | | 08/19/2005 | 1,027 |
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 | Huge area of chalks open mining. Very deep. | | 08/06/2005 | 230 |
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 | The Ekati open pit diamond mine in northern Canada. Zoom in to see the huge trucks and excavators. Visit http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/ekati/ for more information on this mine. | | 09/25/2006 | 1,326 |
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 | Many large (45,500 ton) Krupps strip mining machines in Germany | | 03/27/2006 | 1,186 |
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 | The solar power station Espenhain is in a former open mining with Espenhain (in Saxonia) established a solar power station. This power station is a Photovoltaik plant.
It is solar a community project of the citizens of Berlin project development company Geosol and the Shell AG. On that 16 hectares large areas supply 33,500 solar modules a total output of approximately five megaw... | | 07/12/2007 | 696 |
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 | Panzhihua, previously called Dukou, was founded only 40 years ago on the higher part of the Yangzi Jiang river area.
Open mining, controlled by PanxiGroup is the main activity of this city of more than 500.000 inhabitants.
The present spot is centered on a mining place located on top of a mountain. Zooming here makes possible to see part of extraction technics. You... |  | 08/28/2006 | 3,489 |
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