Giant truck hauling 240 tons of coal in the Black Thunder Opencast Coal Mine in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, United States of America, North America

A train being loaded with low grade coal from an opencast coal mine near Heihe on the Chinese Russian border, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

A train being loaded with low grade coal from an opencast coal mine near Heihe on the Chinese Russian border, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

CHL, Chile, Atacama Desert: the Chuquicamata copper mine near Calama, a mine worker with protective mask.

CHL, Chile, Atacama Desert: the Chuquicamata copper mine near Calama.

Aerial view, wind farm at the lignite opencast mine Garzweiler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Chamois in a working quarry, Jura France

Chamois des Alpes (Rupicapra rupicapra) in quarry in operation, Mathay, Doubs, France

Rano Raraku, Moai Quarry, Easter Island, Chile