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

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

LKAB mining tour, largest underground iron ore mine in the world, Kiruna, Lapland, Arctic Circle, Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe

LKAB mining tour, largest underground iron ore mine in the world, Kiruna, Lapland, Arctic Circle, Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe

Worker carrying big pieces of sulphur out of the Ijen Volcano, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

LKAB mining tour, largest underground iron ore mine in the world, Kiruna, Lapland, Arctic Circle, Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe

Aerial of the Mines of Rammelsberg, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

LKAB mining tour, largest underground iron ore mine in the world, Kiruna, Lapland, Arctic Circle, Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe

Cerro Rico, richest hill on earth, historical site of major silver mining, Potosi, Bolivia, South America

Penrhyn quarry, the largest slate quarry in Wales, Bethesda, Snowdonia, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Broken Hill, the famous mining town (the Silver City), declined but still producing silver, lead and zinc, far west of the state, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

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

Men walking past clean faces for block extraction in granite quarry, Budduro, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

Kimberlite pipe excavated by hand mining for diamonds between 1870 and 1914, now flooded, Big Hole at Kimberley, South Africa, Africa

Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, Salt Lake City, Utah, UsaBingham Canyon Copper Mine, the 'Richest Hole on Earth' and the largest excavation in the world at 2.5 miles wide & .75 mile deep. The ore goes to the smelter on Great Salt Lake

'Iron Blow', the famous Mount Lyell mine where gold and copper was discovered in 1883, starting the mining boom and subsequent environmental damage here, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia, Pacific

Uncut diamonds in the sorting room at De Beers' Diamond Trading Company in Harry Oppenheimer House in Kimberley South Africa.

An uncut diamond being examined during sorting at De Beers' Harry Oppenheimer House building in Kimberley South Africa.

Harry Oppenheimer House in Kimberley South Africa. It the headquarters of the Diamond Trading Company, a part of the De Beers group. Every diamond mined in South Africa passes through this building for sorting and valuation before being sent to London.

An uncut diamond being examined during sorting at De Beers' Harry Oppenheimer House building in Kimberley South Africa.

Climate change heaven and hell, wind turbines next to a coal importing business on the docks in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe

Climate change heaven and hell, wind turbines next to a coal importing business on the docks in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe

Uncut diamonds being sorted at the Diamond Trading Company's Harry Oppenheimer House in Kimberley South Africa. It is part of the De Beers company.

Boreal forest trees clear felled to make way for a new 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

Sulphur which has to be extracted from the raw bitumen from tar sands piled up in huge mountains by the Syncrude upgrader plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Hideous air pollution from the Syncrude Tar sands upgrader plant north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Tar sands deposits being mined at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Tar sands deposits being mined at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Sulphur which has to be extracted from the raw bitumen from tar sands piled up in huge mountains by the Syncrude upgrader plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Sulphur which has to be extracted from the raw bitumen from tar sands piled up in huge mountains by the Syncrude upgrader plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

The tar sands are the largest industrial project on the planet, and the world's most environmentally destructive, Alberta, Canada, North America

Sulphur which has to be extracted from the raw bitumen from tar sands piled up in huge mountains by the Syncrude upgrader plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Sulphur which has to be extracted from the raw bitumen from tar sands piled up in huge mountains by the Syncrude upgrader plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Hideous air pollution from the Syncrude Tar sands upgrader plant north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Tar sands deposits being mined at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

A solar park at Wheal Jane an old abandoned Cornish tin mine near Redruth, UK, that is rediscovering itself as a renewable energy hub, with the old mine buildings in the background.