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

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

Diner where Wild Hogs movie was filmed, Madrid, former mining town in the Ortiz Mountains, Turquoise Trail, New Mexico, United States of America, North America

St. Josephs Church and Shrine, Cerrillos, Old Mining Town, Turquoise Trail, New Mexico, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A raised bog being harvested for peat near Douglas water in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Raised bogs re rare threatened habitats and important carbon sinks that should not be exploited.

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

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

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

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

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

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