Open cast iron mine, Maharastra, India

The iron ore mine Cockerill d'Esch-sur-Alzette played a major role in economic boom from the 1870s to the 1990s, Luxembourg

Sewell Mining Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Chile, South America

Humberstone Saltpeter Works, UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern Atacama, Chile, South America

Sewell Mining Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Chile, South America

Humberstone Saltpeter Works, UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern Atacama, Chile, South America

Sewell Mining Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Chile, South America

Humberstone Saltpeter Works, UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern Atacama, Chile, South America

Sewell Mining Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Chile, South America

Copper mining headquarters in the former French mining town of Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico, North America

Santa Laura Salpeter mine, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Atacama desert, Chile, South America

Humberstone Saltpeter Works, UNESCO World Heritage Site, northern Atacama, Chile, South America

Scenes of working life in the Wieliczka Salt Mine, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Krakow (Cracow), Poland

Chuquicamate copper mine, Atacama Desert, Chile, South America

Diamond mine equipment, Kimberley, South Africa, Africa

Marble quarry, Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Refinement factory at Potosi silver mines, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Refinement factory at Potosi silver mines, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Miners working at Potosi silver mines, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Miners working inside Potosi silver mines, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Refinement factory at Potosi silver mines, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Miners mining at Potosi silver mines, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Potosi silver mines located on the hill about Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Ferropolis, Industry museum to the brown coal open-cast mining in Germany

Industry museum to the brown coal open-cast mining in Germany

Front loader on coal island, inland port in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Dummy with the equipment of a mine rescuer

Equipment of a goldmine, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada

Cave di Fantiscritti, marble quarry near Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Historic mining equipment in the Borax Museum, Furnace Creek Museum, Death Valley National Park, California, USA, North America

Old technical equipment for salt production, Malya, Gujarat, India, Asia

Black Thunder coal mine on Thunder Basin National Grassland, WY. Mike Hockett and Cary Klein are operationg the Ursa Major drag line. This is the largest operating piece of earth moving equipment in North America and removes about 150 feet of overburden to get to a 70 foot seam of coal. Royalties from the coal on the grassland generation about $30 million a year.

Black Thunder coal mine on Thunder Basin National Grassland, WY. Mike Hockett and Cary Klein are operationg the Ursa Major drag line. This is the largest operating piece of earth moving equipment in North America and removes about 150 feet of overburden to get to a 70 foot seam of coal. Royalties from the coal on the grassland generation about $30 million a year.

TUNNEL WORKERS UNDERGROUND WITH HEAVY EQUIPMENT, United States of America

Killhope Lead Mining Museum; Upper Weardale, County Durham, England

National Historical Site, the Pedro Dredge in warm sunset light, Interior Alaska in autumn; Chicken, Alaska, United States of America

A pumpjack at an oil drilling site at sunset, Oilfield pumpjack, Canada

A pumpjack at an oil drilling site at sunset, Oilfield pumpjack, Canada

A pumpjack at an oil drilling site at sunset, Oilfield pumpjack, Canada

Dynamite Detonator, red box and a metal handle, a plunger to detonate dynamite in quarrying