Students explore the environment by researching mining. In this ecological dangers lesson, students define cyanide and discuss why it has potential to be a great threat to our environment during mining expeditions. Students examine many...

Get to know your learners on a deeper level or invite them to step into someone else's shoes by introducing them to a bio poem. With this type of poetry, scholars will answer questions such as self-description, hopes for the future, and...

Take a look at how a mine develops from the exploratory stage to reclamation of the land.

Tells the story of Ngezi Platinum Mine in Zimbabwe, which replaced the Hartley Mine of the 1990s, going from underground mining to a pit operation.

Provides brief descriptions and labeled illustrations for five different methods of surface mining.

The Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota, is the largest open pit iron mine in the world. The mine, located in the Mesabi Range, supplied as much as one-fourth of all the iron ore mined in the United States during its peak...

The world's first and largest open-pit copper mine, Bingham Canyon was opened in 1904.

The Soudan Underground Mine is known as Minnesota's oldest, deepest, and richest iron mine, and now hosts the Soudan Underground Laboratory. In the late 19th century, prospectors searching for gold in northern Minnesota discovered...

This ebook version of G. A. Henty's Facing Death: Or, The Hero Of The Vaughan Pit; A Tale Of The Coal Mines. has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication,...

"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...