When reading and scrolling through endless mining companies presentations, websites & documents I’m often in awe of the engineering features that enable mining. Mother nature meets engineering. Although IMO these are gorgeous settings, we can’t neglect the controversial stories behind some of these scenes. But for now, enjoy the scenery… and guess from which one Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Bernini and Rodin sourced their marble.
For Part II, send over your best (High def, location/asset name, aerial shot) pictures to me at pvanrusselt@gmail.com
Cochicho Company, Pardais, PortugalLake Lefroy, Western AustraliaLake Lefroy, Western AustraliaLake Lefroy, Western AustraliaCannington mine, Australia, South32Cortez MineCullinan Diamond MineDiavik Diamond MineEl TenienteEscondida, ChileFlorida Mountain ProjectGrasberg, Indonesia Grasberg, Indonesia Grasberg, IndonesiaGrasberg, Indonesia Grasberg, Indonesia Grootegeluk MineKalgoorlie Super Pit, AustraliaKimberly Mine aka The Big HoleMasbateMir Mine, RussiaBingham Canyon Copper, UtahEdit: Bingham canyon mine landslidePalabora MineVenetia Diamond MineEl TenienteAntamina, PeruCerro Verde IIMorenciRioTinto (river) Mining Area, SpainAtalaya RioTinto (river) Mining Area, SpainCarrara Marble Mine, ItalyCarrara Marble Mine, ItalyCarrara Marble Mine, ItalyCarrara Marble Mine, ItalyUnknown, PhilippinesHaerwusu, ChinaUnknownUnknown, source: Solvay Argyle Diamond Mine
Gorgeous photos and, as you noted, tremendous feats of engineering; thanks, I really enjoyed this post (saw it originally when cross-posted over at ZeroHedge by “VBL”).
My family is from Butte, Montana, USA — “The Richest Hill on Earth” — and my father (but only as a teenager) along with other male ancestors & family worked in the underground (and primarily copper) mines there, which eventually ceased and/or were subsumed by large open pit mining operations after World War II:
. the Berkeley Pit, now a large superfund site that has filled with groundwater (and being treated owing to dissolved heavy metals making the water heavily acidic); along with
. the Continental Pit (formerly East Berkeley Pit) still in operation today.
Having done much genealogical research — and seeing the causes of death in relatively young males who were miners and obviously died prematurely (usually from pulmonary tuberculosis owing to long-term exposure to respirable silica dust, if not killed outright or otherwise maimed in a mining accident) — the mining of metals and mineral ores & deposits in underground mines exacted a heavy human toll on these miners.
I’ll find some online photos of the Berkeley Pit (historical and contemporary, somewhat chronologically,) and email them to you for consideration in your Part II post. Cheers!
Pretty sure the “unknown landslide” is the Bingham Canyon slope failure from 2013.
Thanks Tim, I double checked and updated. #Love
Multiply all this by a thousand when you go fully green.
Gonna have the enviros howling in their frozen huts.
Gorgeous photos and, as you noted, tremendous feats of engineering; thanks, I really enjoyed this post (saw it originally when cross-posted over at ZeroHedge by “VBL”).
My family is from Butte, Montana, USA — “The Richest Hill on Earth” — and my father (but only as a teenager) along with other male ancestors & family worked in the underground (and primarily copper) mines there, which eventually ceased and/or were subsumed by large open pit mining operations after World War II:
. the Berkeley Pit, now a large superfund site that has filled with groundwater (and being treated owing to dissolved heavy metals making the water heavily acidic); along with
. the Continental Pit (formerly East Berkeley Pit) still in operation today.
Having done much genealogical research — and seeing the causes of death in relatively young males who were miners and obviously died prematurely (usually from pulmonary tuberculosis owing to long-term exposure to respirable silica dust, if not killed outright or otherwise maimed in a mining accident) — the mining of metals and mineral ores & deposits in underground mines exacted a heavy human toll on these miners.
I’ll find some online photos of the Berkeley Pit (historical and contemporary, somewhat chronologically,) and email them to you for consideration in your Part II post. Cheers!