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

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

aerial photo of coal fired power plant and open mine at Offleben in Lower Saxony, northern Germany

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

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

Brown coal mining, Welzow-South opencast mining, Welzow, Spree-Neivüe district, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

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