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Miners working at Simmer & Jack gold mine in Germiston, South Africa. Vintage photo etching circa 19th century.
Cerro Rico is a mountain in the Andes near the Bolivian city of Potosí. It is estimated that eighty-five percent of the silver produced in the central Andes during the period of the New World Spanish Empire came from the mines at Cerro Rico. Up to 8 million workers died until now in the mines of Cerro Rico.
Kennecott Bingham Copper Mine in Salt Lake City, Utah. A large 24/7 copper mine operating in the Southwest of the United States. Has been in operation for over 120 years.
Portsmouth Mine an open pit iron and manganese mine, Crosby, Minnesota, USA. The pit has since filled with water and is called the Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake. Photo taken in 1957.
Mining at Kambalda Western Australia's open cut nickel mine.
Oil field drills aerial view
Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia, May 20, 1995: View of large ball mill used to crush ore at a gold mine processing plant in the Tanami Desert
Potosi, Bolivia - September 7, 2009: Miners in the Silver mine look down a basic mineshaft during a tour of the silver mine which has been in operation since the town was founded in 1546.
Johannesburg, South Africa – April 01, 2024: Three miners inspecting something in a vintage mine photograph
Horizontal close-up shot of a 1970s oil pumping rig.
Looking down the length of a gypsum mining tunnel (adit) inside an abandoned quarry.
An underground tunnel, rails and wagons for the city's wastewater
The Impact of coal mining on the environment. The mining location was abandoned without reclamation. Location: Sangatta, East Kalimantan/Indonesia.
mining natural resources
Latin American miner working at the mine digging with a pick - mining concepts
Chalky mine tunnel with traces of drilling machine, Belgorod, Russia.
Falun, Sweden - Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain, UNESCO World Heritage Site. The are an outstanding example of a technological ensemble with a historical industrial landscape
Illustration from 19th century.
Metal barrel with pipes in the mountains.
Giant MIne sits abandoned on the edge of the arctic city of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Industrial setting, old buildings and blue sky for copy space.
View through tunnel of levada, water irrigation channel at hiking trail Levada do moinho to levada nova waterfall. Madeira, Portugal.
Mining works
Múzquiz, Mexico, January 17 -- The deep entrance of a coal mine with some miners in the Múzquiz region in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico, about 100 kilometers from the border between Mexico and the United States.
Old underground passage, dungeon, catacombs lined with stones and slabs with paths from speleologists (spelunking)
Barium sulfate mining, open pit in Bahia State, Brazil.
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Two hillside water storage tanks at Mount Charleston, Clark County Nevada.
Rusted water valve wheels stand over an irrigation ditch at the nearly dried out reservoir of Blue Lake and Adobe Creek Reservoir State Wildlife Area in southeast Colorado. Severe drought has plagued the area for years where water remains in the center of the drying reservoir.
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