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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.
The entrance to the old abandoned limestone adits.
Close-up of the rugged rock wall lining an underground tunnel
An underground tunnel, rails and wagons for the city's wastewater
Tunnel front with blasting holes and reinforcement
time for the bear to wake up from hibernation and rest at the cave entrance
Illustration from 19th century.
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.
a small cave in the rock reef that call cerme cave in gunung kidul jogjakarta
View of a Salt Mine Cave next to the Salt formations in Garmsar of Iran
Old underground passage, dungeon, catacombs lined with stones and slabs with paths from speleologists (spelunking)
Entrance to old mine in mountains. Abandoned Hadjipavlou chromite mine in Troodos, Cyprus
Rustical fence restricts cattle stable in canyon
Prior to 1600, the excavation of the ore in the mines scalvine, was done with archaic methods and empirical.
Canada British Columbia, Fraser canyon highway.
Tourists on the stairway in the rocky mountains on the São Francisco River in Alagoas, Canindé, Sergipe, Brazil
View through tunnel of levada, water irrigation channel at hiking trail Levada do moinho to levada nova waterfall. Madeira, Portugal.
Johannesburg, South Africa – April 02, 2024: Worker using dump truck as mine shaft in industrial setting
A visitor to an underground mine stands just outside the main entrance during a tour. Click to view more mining images.
El Chorro , Arenoso , Montanejos , aliviadero del pantano de Arenoso , es su punto de desagüe, un aliviadero denominado de compuertas, que tiene una capacidad de 41 m3/s.
Concrete block and rusted fences of the entrance to an abandoned mine in the mountain. Altai, Siberia, Russia.
Narrow dirt road and tunnels through Rocky Mountain canyon at 11 Mile Canyon in central Colorado. Nearby cities and towns are Colorado Springs, Woodland Park and Cripple Creek, Colorado in western United States of America (USA).
Múzquiz, Mexico, January 17 -- Some coal miners outside a mine in the Múzquiz region in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico, about 100 kilometers from the border between Mexico and the United States.
Cave located near the El Maviri silver in Ahome Sinaloa, where millions of bats of the species Tadarida brasiliensis, better known as the guano bat, come out on summer afternoons to hunt insects from the region. Photo: Esteban David Saavedra Del Rayo (Mexico, 2023)
Sandstone rocky cave interior look at Badami,Karnataka.
In-depth look at the sandstone mountainous area near Engilchek, Kyrgyzstan
Old Amagi tunnel
Copper Mine tunnel located in the town of Hyder, Alaska but situated within British Columbia.
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