Landscape scarred by mining and spoil heaps at former mining settlement where gold and other minerals were extracted, and second highest village in Scotland, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Mine working and spoil tip remains, Dinorwig Quarry (Dinorwic Quarry), Llyn Peris behind, Eryri (Snowdonia National Park), North Wales, United Kingdom

An abandoned tin mine in Porthtowan on the North Cornish coast, UK.

Fife power station, a gas turbine power plant on the site of the former Westfield open cast coal mine, near Ballingry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Hagshaw Hill wind farm above an abandoned open cast coal mine in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Spoil left by open cast coal mining at the abandoned Westfield mine in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Climate change heaven and hell, showing The Hagshaw Hill wind farm above the Spireslack open cast coal mine in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Spoil left by open cast coal mining at the abandoned Westfield mine in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Spoil left by open cast coal mining at the abandoned Westfield mine in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

"Totems" art installation by Basque artist Augustin Ibarrola, painted railway ties at the top of the Haniel spoil pile, Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

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

The Patriot Coal Corporation's Samples mine, which uses the technique of mountaintop removal to mine coal. The mountain tops are stripped away and dumped in valleys to get at the coal below. The Samples mine has been temporarily closed due to declining de

Aerial view, tailings dam, waste dump, landscape construction with an amphitheater, Halde Haniel, Bottrop, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Aerial view, tailings dam, waste dump, landscape construction with an amphitheater, Halde Haniel at Bergwerk Prosper-Haniel colliery, shaft 1 2 Bottrop, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Aerial view, mine Hugo I 1, 2, with Halde Runge heap and view point, Schachtzeichen RUHR.2010, Gelsenkirchen, Ruhrgebiet region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Aerial view, mine Hugo I 1, 2, with Halde Runge heap and view point, Schachtzeichen RUHR.2010, Gelsenkirchen, Ruhrgebiet region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Norway, Svalbard, Longyearbyen,Valley side, Old coal mine and cable way.