Open pit

aerial photograph of the Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine, Utah

The Fimiston Open Pit mine, known as the Super Pit, stands in this aerial photograph taken above Kalgoorlie, Australia, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015. The Super Pit is operated by Kalgoorlie Consolidated...

The Super Pit is the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia. A canyon-size hole populated by house-size trucks, it's large enough to be seen from orbit. Here's what it looks like up close.

Open-pit mining, open-cut mining or opencast mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.

There is an overwhelming sense of disbelief when looking at David Maisel’s aerial photographs of open-pit mines, toxic waste sites, logging, freeways...

Panoramic aerial view of coal mine. Open pit mine industry, big yellow mining truck for coal quarry. Open coal mining anthracite mining. Pit on coal mining by open way. Rock loading in trucks

The township of Kalgoorlie, left, stands next to the Fimiston Open Pit mine, known as the Super Pit, in this aerial photograph taken above Kalgoorlie, Australia, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015. The Super...

Photo about a monster dump truck carries 250 tons of rock out of an open pit mine. Image of silver, gold, open - 10465633

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