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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.
Oil field drills aerial view
a large pile of ore at sunset in Australia.
Small mine operator wash gold off rock and sand in Chicken Creek on July 24, 1997 in Alaska, USA
Miners working at Simmer & Jack gold mine in Germiston, South Africa. Vintage photo etching circa 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.
Mining at Kambalda Western Australia's open cut nickel mine.
Johannesburg, South Africa – April 01, 2024: Three miners inspecting something in a vintage mine photograph
Rock and gravel quarry, Northern California.
Mining in Minas Gerais
Barium sulfate mining, open pit in Bahia State, Brazil.
An excavator and a front loader eat away at a mountain to extract copper and molybdenum minerals and load them into a dump trunk and haul off to a smelter
Long exposure of mining and freight transportation of sand or coal and loading dumping the truck with help of shovel heavy machinery to excavation of earth
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 rusty yellow equipment in limestone quarry in Europe
Johannesburg, South Africa – April 02, 2024: Worker using dump truck as mine shaft in industrial setting
Dumper truck and earth mover in a mining pit, Venezuela
Northern Territory, Australia, February 13, 2000: View of machinery operating at an open cut gold mine pit in the Northern Territory, Australia
Northeast China, a coal mine to be depleted.Aerial view of opencast mining quarry
Aerial view of heavy machinery working in the quarry transporting gravel
An open cut diamond mine in the Kimberley region of north Western Australia
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.
Weathered mining equipment, including trucks and rail cars, sits in the historic Rio Tinto mines, a testament to past industry
Witbank, South Africa – February 20, 2021: Witbank, South Africa - July 25 2011: Coal Ore on a conveyor belt for processing
Concrete plant. Toned Image.
Aerial view of the tailings dam and processing plant of a Gold mine in the Northern Territory of Australia
Aerial view of Open-pit iron mine in Kayseri, Turkey. Taken via drone.
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