Abandoned Industrial Sites

Photos of derelict mining and industrial sites, featuring old machinery, waste piles, and barren landscapes from past operations.

Tools and strengthening the battery 198 on the hill Refrigerator in Vladivostok, Russia. Tools and strengthening the battery 198 on the hill Refrigerator in Vladivostok, Russia. Copyright: xZoonar.com/DmitriixRudx 13636757

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Road construction at Karakorum Highway by Chinese labourer, working under rough conditions, Gilgit, North West Frontier, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia

Borehole at a geothermal power plant

Spent nuclear waste stored in tanks, South Carolina, USA.

Chinese workers making a road; Daocheng, Sichuan province, China

Historic Lotzkar Memorial Park with waste slag or Hell´s Bells, left over from the copper smelting process, greenwood, british columbia, canada

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The front end of a 1930s era McCormick-Deering threshing machine, also called a thresher, under clouds on Colorado's Eastern Plains, in a High Dynamic Range (HDR) Image.

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Abandoned smelter with Hell´s Bells slag forms at Greenwood, British Columbia, Canada

A841246 U12G BACK BURNER FINAL SET-UP ROD SHEAR (Project Engineer) OCT 24 84 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 10/24/1984 BACK BURNER; BACK BURNER TEST; DISKS; DUST CLOUDS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); EXPLODING; EXPLOSIONS; EXPLOSIONS (MAN-MADE); FINAL SET-UP; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SETUP; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; BACK BURNER-FINAL SET-UP historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Old abandoned marble factory in Ruskeala, Karelia republic, Russia

Fuel depot at Great Sitkin Island showing a storage tank used during World War II

A830762 UE16B HIGH ENERGY GAS FRAC JERRY CUDERMAN (Project Engineer) APR 28 83EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/28/1983 CUDERMAN, JERRY; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; FIELDS, AIR; HEGF; HIGH ENERGY GAS FRAC; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MOUNTAINS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Bolivia, Potosi, Cerro Rico, Miners Chewing Coca Leaves Before A Shift At Candelaria Mine.

Rebuilding a Road in the Shadow of a Volcano

Worker putting soap into Lady Knox Geyser to start it, Waiotapu, near Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand

Mechanic busy in work on Leh Kargil road Ladakh Jammu and Kashmir India 9-April-2008 NO MR Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotox

Donkey, loaded with carpets and the scaffolding of a yurt, dismantling of the yurts in the summer camp of the Kyrgyz nomads on the barren plateau in Bozai Gumbaz, in the background the mountains of the Pamir, Bozai Gumbaz, Wakhan Corridor, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, Asia

Sea salt production near Walvis Bay, Namibia, Africa

Placement of filling underwater concrete in the construction pits for the abutments of the new bridge

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Davidson ditch: conduit bringing the water of excavators and prospectors, Steese highway, from Fox to Circle, Alaska

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Abandoned machinery at derelict Rhosydd Barracks at the Rhosydd Slate Mine in Cwmorthin.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District joined Gov. Mike Dunleavy and representatives from the 673d Air Base Wing, 11th Air Force, 3d Wing, Eklutna Tribe and Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. for a groundbreaking ceremony of the 16/34 runway extension today on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.In the 77-year history of our organization in Alaska, this $309 million project represents the largest construction contract that we have ever awarded, said Col. Damon Delarosa, district commander. Now that we are ready to break ground, our team is eager to oversee the next phase of this massive undertaking and build upon the impressive legacy of the Army engineers who have served in the Last Frontier.Engineers on the mega-project used cutting-edge technology and innovative techniques to design the project. It will require extensive excavation due to the site topography including the movement of 12 million cubic yards of soil, which is equal to 800,000 dump truck loads. If lined up,

A dolly stands in a utility area behind a portable hangar being used in PACEX '89. Subject Operation/Series: PACEX '89 Base: Cold Bay Air Force Station State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Pipeline on a bridge suspended above the Terek River

Oil field, Devils Dune, Abu Dhabi, Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Asia

A822048 UE16B HEGF JERRY CUDERMAN (Project Engineer) OCT 27 82 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 10/27/1982 BUILDING TYPES; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); GAS FRAC; GAS FRACTURE; GAS FRACTURE EQUIPMENT; GAS FRACTURE PIPE; HEGF; HEGF EQUIPMENT; HIGH ENERGY GAS FRAC; HIGH ENERGY GAS FRACTURE; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; TEMPORARY; TEMPORARY BUILDINGS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; UE16B-HEGF historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Men’s shoes made of leather leather, the shoemaker workshop. shoemaker performs shoes in the studio craft. Men’s shoes made of leather leather, the shoemaker workshop. shoemaker performs shoes

USA, Alaska. Old rusty mine train at the Independence Mine State Historical Park listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a former gold mining operation in the Talkeetna Mountains.

Pallet of mining core samples abandoned in mountains.

Peat digging stack, Cape Wrath, Sutherland, Highlands, Scotland, august

Historic Lotzkar Memorial Park with waste slag or Hell´s Bells, left over from the copper smelting process, greenwood, british columbia, canada

A tunnel boring machine stands at the site of a South Korean counter-tunnel for North Korean tunnel No. 4 near Kach'il-Bong Peak. The South Korean tunnels are being constructed to eliminate the value of North Korean tunnels by intersecting them. Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Industrial Railroad and Smokestack of Large Copper Smelter that Supplies Great Quantities of Copper so vital to War Effort, Phelps-Dodge Mining Company, Morenci, Arizona, USA, Fritz Henle for Office of War Information, December 1942

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Peat cutting on Shetland, Scotland. the peat is drying next to the peat bank it was cut from. Shetland, Northern Isles, Scotland. (Large format sizes available)

Report on a rescue device specializing in difficult mountain access. The employees receive, fix and set up the antenna which will serve as a relay in the valley located below.

Report on a rescue device specializing in difficult mountain access. The employees receive, fix and set up the antenna which will serve as a relay in the valley located below

Sulphur worker mining sulphur at the bottom of the crater, Kawah Ijen, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Community peat diggings, North Harris, Western Isles / Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, May 2011

French Alps. Construction site on The Mont Blanc Tramway (TMB) the highest mountain railway line in France. Terminus at 2372 m. Saint Gervais. France.

Blasting Dynamite at wang dam site, karad, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Rancher well digging on the Rosebud Reservation of South Dakota, USA

Freestanding hot shower with rubber mat, no drainage, outdoor, barren landscape near Krafla volcano, Myvatn, North Iceland, Iceland, Europe

Thargomindah Hydro Electric Plant using the pressure of the artesian waters Thargomindah became the first town in Australia, to have a hydroelectric plant and the first town in Queensland (outside Brisbane) to have electricity Thargomindah, Queensland, Australia

Excavator spreader recycling on demolition site

A88244 U12N INCLUSION EXPERIMENT PRE BOOSTER TEST ROD SHEAR/JIM TALBUTT (PROJECT ENGINEER) FEB 10 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/10/1988 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; FLATBED TRUCK; FLATBED TRUCKS; INCLUSION EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MALE; MALES; MEN; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PRE BOOSTER TEST; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SAND BAGS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; U12G INCLUSION EXPERIMENT historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Oil fields, Libya.

South America, Argentina, Province Jujuy - working men at the salt lake Salinas Grandes in the Puna (highlands of the Andes mountains)

Piles of rusting fuel drums of abandoned US WW2 base Bluie East Two, Ikateq, Greenland

Whale Bones at British Post in Port Lockway Antarctica (MR)

Rusting Gas Pump on Farm

Smoking charcoal kiln, Walpersdorf, Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Oil rigs and wells in the Midway-Sunset shale oil fields, the largest in CaliforniaTaft, Kern County, California, USA

Anefo photo collection. Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo); construction dam. August 16, 1973. Belgian Congo, Zaire

Indian oil petrol pump at Kargil Jammu and Kashmir India 10-April-2008 Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotox

Mid adult man at a construction site in a desert

Extractors Ragworth Ile aux marins St. Pierre et Miquelon

Brooklyn Mine Road, Old Dale Mining District, Mojave Desert, California

Mini robot on a disused mine tip

Hay baler making bales on farmland between mountainside and highway

Crews of lee's ferry river rafts getting supplies ready for long trip down the colorado river; arizona usa

A driller waves off a helicopter. His team was brought up to operate a portable drilling rig to sink a 10 metre hole on the summit of Mount Morgan overlooking the Haupiri Valley, West Coast, New Zealand on May 7, 2024. The hole will be used for seismic GPS monitoring instruments to measure movement along the Alpine Fault which runs near the base of the mountain. All drilling equipment including an air compressor, generator and drilling rig was flown to the summit by helicopter

Wales, Gwynedd, Llanberis. The National Slate Museum at Llanberis is sited in the Victorian workshops of the Dinorwig Quarry (closed in 1969) and tell the story of the Welsh slate industry.

A worker unhitches a helicopter load on a mountain top on the West Coast, New Zealand, Oceania

Workers pick a green row celery field in the Salinas Valley, California USA.

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