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Real de Catorce, former silver mining town now popular with tourists, San Luis Potosi state, Mexico, North America

View of refinement factory and Potosi from Potosi silver mines, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Broken Hill, the famous mining town (the Silver City), declined but still producing silver, lead and zinc, far west of the state, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

A traditional tent camp springs up around a site where ordinary mongolians exploring gold. Ninjas have been mining gold past 10 years, exhausting 10-hour days norm here. Sarangol valley, northwest of capital city ulan bator, mongolia

Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, Salt Lake City, Utah, UsaBingham Canyon Copper Mine, the 'Richest Hole on Earth' and the largest excavation in the world at 2.5 miles wide & .75 mile deep. The ore goes to the smelter on Great Salt Lake

Gold rush,ninjas precious metal in a river in sarangol valley, northwest of capital city ulan bator, mongolia. Ninjas named green pans they wear on their backs that make them resemble cartoon ninja turtle

Mongolian-russian mining venture on outskirts of erdenet city, population of 80,000 dictates work as well as life in soviet -style city. 5,200 employees work at this site excavating up to 25.2 million tons of iron year

People on mine train in salt mine Grubenhund in the tunnel, Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria, Austria, Europe

Conveyor belt, Bingham Canyon Mine or Kennecott Copper Mine, largest man-made open pit on earth, Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, America

Copper deposits, Bingham Canyon Mine or Kennecott Copper Mine, largest man-made open pit on earth, Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, America

Special trucks, Bingham Canyon Mine or Kennecott Copper Mine, largest man-made open pit on earth, Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, America

Special trucks, Bingham Canyon Mine or Kennecott Copper Mine, largest man-made open pit on earth, Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, America

Bingham Canyon Mine or Kennecott Copper Mine, largest man-made open pit on earth, Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, America

Copper deposits, Bingham Canyon Mine or Kennecott Copper Mine, largest man-made open pit on earth, Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, America

One of the main historic churches in the city of Ouro Preto seen through the vegetation with the mountains in the background, Brasil

Bingham Canyon Mine or Kennecott Copper Mine, largest man-made open pit on earth, Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, America

General store, antiques shop in Roeros, iron mining town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sor-Trondelag, Norway

Aerial of the abandoned mining city Kadykchan, Road of Bones, Magadan Oblast, Russia, Susuman, Magadan Oblast, Russia, Europe

Artwork, Slab for the Ruhr by the sculptor Richard Serra on the Schurenbachhalde slag heap in the Ruhr area, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Special trucks, Bingham Canyon Mine or Kennecott Copper Mine, largest man-made pit in the world, Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, USA, PublicGround