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Expansive open-pit mine with winding roads under a cloudy sky, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Interior of building slowly being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in the abandoned former German diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Forbidden Diamond Area near Luderitz, Namibia, Africa

Interior of building slowly being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in the abandoned former German diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Forbidden Diamond Area near Luderitz, Namibia, Africa

Interior of building slowly being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in the abandoned former German diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Forbidden Diamond Area near Luderitz, Namibia, Africa

Interior of building slowly being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in the abandoned former German diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Forbidden Diamond Area near Luderitz, Namibia, Africa

Interior of building slowly being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in the abandoned former German diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Forbidden Diamond Area near Luderitz, Namibia, Africa

Interior of building slowly being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in the abandoned former German diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Forbidden Diamond Area near Luderitz, Namibia, Africa

Interior of building slowly being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in the abandoned former German diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Forbidden Diamond Area near Luderitz, Namibia, Africa

Interior of building slowly being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in the abandoned former German diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Forbidden Diamond Area near Luderitz, Namibia, Africa

Open pit mine, the largest in the world, pit is 3800m across and 720m deep, Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, Utah, USA

Chuqui open-pit copper mine, 4km long, 720m d eep, trucks each carrying 300t of ore, Chuquicamata, Calama, Chile, South America

Machine digging gem-bearing clay in large open pit mine, Mogok ruby mines, Mandalay District, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Soil overburden being removed to reach the tar sands beds in an open pit tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Re-created diamond mining tunnels at the Kimberley Open Mine Museum in Kimberley in South Africa's North-West Province.

Soil overburden being removed to reach the tar sands beds in an open pit tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Soil overburden being removed to reach the tar sands beds in an open pit tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Soil overburden being removed to reach the tar sands beds in an open pit tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

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

A conveyor belt taking coal from the Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a roadhead for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

A conveyor belt taking coal from the Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a roadhead for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

The Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a roadhead for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

The Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a roadhead for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

The Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a roadhead for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

A conveyor belt taking coal from the Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a roadhead for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

The Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a roadhead for onward transport by road 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

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

Trucks haul highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang province on the Chinese Russian border, China, Asia

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

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

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

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

An open topped double decker bus travelling through the Cornish countryside and passing Bosigran tin mine, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Tourists on an open topped bus pasing an old tin mine near Zennor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

An open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Trucks haul highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang province on the Chinese Russian border, China, Asia

Trucks haul highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang province on the Chinese Russian border, China, Asia

An open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

aerial photo coal fired power plant at Buschhaus near Helmstedt, brown coal open pit mine, Saxony Anhalt, Germany

Aerial view of an open-pit lignite mine, Lorries transporting brown coal, Schoeningen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Aerial view of a bucket-wheel excavator with conveyor belt in for open-pit lignite mining, brown coal, Schoeningen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Aerial view of a bucket-wheel excavator with conveyor belt in for open-pit lignite mining, brown coal, Schoeningen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Aerial view of a lignite open-pit mine at fossil-fuel power station Buschhaus, cooling towers in the background, Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, northern Germany

Light installation at the Shaft tower of former Goettelborn open-cast mine, Europe's tallest shaft-tower, Saarland, Germany, Europe

Bucket-wheel excavator, lignite mining, Garzweiler, near Jüchen, Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Bucket-wheel excavators, Garzweiler lignite mining, near Jüchen, Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Stacker in the Garzweiler open pit in the blue hour, Grevenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Jänschwalde open pit, behind the Jänschwalde lignite power plant, Jänschwalde, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

Open-cast lignite mining, spreader, Jüchen lookout point, Garzweiler open-cast mine, Jüchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Open-cast lignite mining, spreader, Jüchen lookout point, Garzweiler open-cast mine, Jüchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Site plan, Santa Laura Saltpeter Works, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Atacama Desert, northern Chile, Chile, South America

Santa Laura Saltpeter Works, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Atacama Desert, northern Chile, Chile, South America

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

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

Coal seam and machines in the open pit Welzow-Sued, mining of brown coal by the Vattenfall energy company, Lower Lusatia, Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, 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