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Smoke rises from buildings in an Alberta Oil Sand extraction operation.
Smoke rises from buildings in an Alberta Oil Sand extraction operation.
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Coal mine. The dredge loads the truck coal
Coal mine. The dredge loads the truck coal for loading on conveyor
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A crane moves granite blocks in a yard near a quarry.
A crane moves granite blocks in a yard near a quarry.
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Molybdenum mining boom in Canada
Canada experiences a mining boom comparable with the uranium rush that followed WWII. There is a swiftly rising demand for molybdenum, an alloy used in steel, and mines in the wilds of British Columbia are working around the clock to...
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Grimes Graves, Thetford Chase
Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex near Brandon in England close to the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. It was worked between circa 3000 BC and circa 1900 BC, although production may have continued well into the...
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Toxic fumes rising from Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia
The crater of the famous Kawah Ijen volcano in East Java in Indonesia, constantly spits sulfuric toxic fumes. Manual laborers from local community go down the crater to fetch blocks of sulfur that they extract and carry back to valley....
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Steam Locomotive On Hill
Steam locomotive dumps slag on a hill which stacked by mineral waste residue from 1955, July 06, 2015, Fuxin, Liaoning Province, China. Fuxin is a city raised by coal mine from 1950s after the found of People's Republic of China, the...
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Salt mining Cabo de Gata
Salt mining piling the salt in theground with a tranport crane.
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A crane lifts a granite block in a quarry yard.
A crane lifts a granite block in a quarry yard.
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Shadows lie across an ancient quarry in Wadi Hammamat.
Shadows lie across an ancient quarry in Wadi Hammamat.
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Excavators, cranes and trucks are working in construction site
Excavators, cranes and trucks are working in construction site in afternoon. In that day have much cloud in the sky that make shadow in this area.
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A giant drum slowly spins in a mining facility.
A giant drum slowly spins in a mining facility.