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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

Ouro Preto, a former colonial mining town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America

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

Encroaching forest in limestone basin, Phontiou tin mine, plain of mine tailings and pollution, Khammouan, Laos, Indochina, 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

Shop, Madrid, former mining town in the Ortiz Mountains, Turquoise Trail, New Mexico, United States of America, North America

Miners Statue, Roath Basin, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, South Wales, United Kingdom, Eurrope

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

Victorian Kimberley, many of the buildings were rescued and relocated near to the now defunct Big Hole mine, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, Africa

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

Historic building evoking the west coast's gold-mining past, Shantytown, Greymouth, Grey district, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific

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

Ilakaka sapphire mines, Ilakaka, Fianarantsoa province, Ihorombe Region, Southern Madagascar, Africa

County Court House in the the Wild West old silver mining town of Silverton, Colorado, United States of America, North America

Historic building evoking the west coast's gold-mining past, Shantytown, Greymouth, Grey district, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Abandoned truck, Animas Forks Mine ruins, Animas Forks, Colorado, United States of America, North America

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

Old mining village of Culpina between Uyuni and Laguna Colorado, Southwest Highlands, Bolivia, South America

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

Old ochre mines, near Roussillon, Colorado de Rustrel, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France, Europe

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

Casino and shops in the historic mining town of Ely on Highway 50 - 'The Loneliest Road in America', The Great Basin, Ely, Nevada, USA

'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

Gold rush,ninjas precious metal in a river in sarangol valley, northwest of capital city ulan bator, mongolia. Ninjas named green pans they wear on their backs that make them resemble cartoon ninja turtle

A traditional tent camp springs up around a site where ordinary mongolians exploring gold. Ninjas have been mining gold past 10 years, exhausting 10-hour days norm here. Sarangol valley, northwest of capital city ulan bator, mongolia

Mongolia. In late early sarangol a flourishing town lived in by some 5,000 soviet-mongol miners. mine been shut down leaving behind ninjas named green pans they wear on their back that make them resemble cartoon ninja turtles. ninjas, income earned from specks of gold clawed from river is a social safety in vast central asian country where more than on in three live below poverty line

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.

A yellow diamond embedded in a piece of kimberlite. Kimberlite is the igneous stone in which diamonds are found and was formed in the Earth's crust between 100 and 1000 million years ago.

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.

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

Boreal forest trees clear felled to make way for a new tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America

Boreal forest trees clear felled to make way for a new tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America