Industrial Steelworks

Photos show blast furnaces and industrial structures from old steel mills, capturing the robust architecture and history of metal production.

Historical yellow crane on Granville island in Vancouver

Dredge for placer gold mining abandoned on Coal Creek, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska.

Old crane operating at a scrap yard in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland

Dredge Number 4 on Bonanza Creek road

Steel infrastructure for loadout facilities reflected in a storage pond at a coal mine

Unesco world heritage site Voelklingen Ironworks, Saarland, Germany, Europe

Sackers waste recycling centre machinery for metal processing, Claydon, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Blast furnace, Industrial Culture Route, disused industrial plant, Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, formerly Meiderich Ironworks, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Abandoned blast furnace against sky during winter

Ewald Colliery, here in Herten in 1970, was a record-breaking colliery for RAG, Germany, in front of its closure, Europe

MALECON - GRUA DE CARGA TIPO KRUPP, SOBRE EL MUELLE -. Location: PUERTO. Carboneras. Almería. SPAIN.

Former Thyssen AG steelworks, tapping hall at blast furnace 5 with tapping hole, drilling machine and tamping machine

Blast Furnace Landscape Park Duisburg 1047100270

Lichterfeld, overburden conveyor bridge F60/ length: 502 m height: 74 m built 89-91

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Cleaning waste water, processing city vault, waste incineration plants. July 1967. Leiden, South Holland

Exclusion zone, Pripyat, in the uninhabitable 30-kilometre zone around the Chernobyl power plant and the Pripyat workers' settlement, Ferris wheel at the amusement park, Ukraine, Europe

Victory Shaft, Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall, England

Old winding tower of an industrial building under a blue sky, HErten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Cement factory, quarry with silos and industrial equipment. Limestone mining for cement production

Machinery at pier of Baltic Coal Terminal on Venta river, Ventspils, Latvia, Baltic States, Europe

Abandoned part of the Doe Run ironworks, La Oroya, Junin, Peru, South America

Bumper corn crop being stockpiled next to storage elevators; Rake, Iowa, United States of America

Gelsenkirchen, former Nordstern colliery

Headframes on a landscape, Belmont Mine, Butte, Montana, USA

Mining Technology Park near Grosspoesna

OIL SANDS, Alberta, Canada. The worlds largest petroleum resource basin.

OIL SANDS, Alberta, Canada. The worlds largest petroleum resource basin. NOT SO DIRTY AFTER ALL AND CLEANER THAN COAL AND GAS

Voelklingen Ironworks, UNESCO World Heritge Site, Saarland, Germany, Europe

Oxcart, sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), sugar cane harvest, Caribbean, America, Dominican Republic, Central America

Technical monument, winding tower of shaft 1, mining technology, Burgk, Freital, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Coal mine industrial heritage museum in snow, Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, Torfaen, South South Wales, January

Headframe of the Zeche Pluto colliery, Herne, Ruhr district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Double strut scaffolding in Consol Park, industrial monument, former Consolidation mine, Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Lignite Excavator Giants at the Ferropolis Industrial Heritage Open-Air Museum, Graefenhainichen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Overburden conveyor bridge F60

Decommissioned bucket-wheel excavator released for inspection, used for open-cast coal mining, Ostritz, Upper Lusatia, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Exclusion zone, Lost place, Pripyat, in the uninhabitable 30-kilometre zone around the Chernobyl power plant and the workers' settlement of Pripyat, Kraene at the jetty, Cemetery of the Cranes, Ukraine, Europe

Illuminated winding tower of the former Rheinpreussen 4 shaft for the Extraschicht, Moers, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Gigantic excavator in the disused Ferropolis open-cast lignite mine

UNESCO World Heritage site Zeche Zollverein, double winding tower, shaft 12, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Georgia. Tbilisi. Unused Steel Factory

Illuminated sheaves, Westphalia mine, closed coal mine in the evening, Ahlen, Muensterland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Ferropolis is an industrial museum and event venue in Gräfenhainichen, east of Dessau-Roßlau, on a peninsula in Lake Gremmin, the former Golpa-Nord open-cast mine. Ferropolis is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Culture

Hard coal loading station for steam locomotive, Loessnitzgrundbahn, narrow gauge railway Loessnitzdackel, Radebeul-Ost station, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Large excavator on the edge of the Garzweiler opencast lignite mine, Rhenish lignite mining area, Germany, Europe

Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, incinerator TREA Breisgau, site with sorter and conveyor

Aerial view of weathered industrial buildings stand in stark contrast to the neatly stacked logs, hinting at a blend of decay and industry, Sremska Mitrovica, Vojvodina, Serbia.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The payload canister containing the U.S. Lab Destiny nears the payload changeout room on the Rotating Service Structure at Launch Pad 39A. Umbilical hoses are still attached. In the PCR Destiny will be removed and transferred to the payload bay of Atlantis for mission STS-98. Destiny, a key element in the construction of the International Space Station is designed for space science experiments. STS-98 is the seventh construction flight to the ISS. Launch of STS-98 is scheduled for Jan. 19 at 2 11 a.m. EST

Transporter Bridge, Newport, Gwent, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Oxcart, sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), sugar cane harvest, Caribbean, America, Dominican Republic, Central America

Steelworks of ArcelorMittal, world's largest steel producer, port of Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium, Europe

Germany, North Rhine Westphalia, Ruhr Area, Food, Heising, Mast the Former Colliery Carl Spark, Hard Coal Mine 1100404232

teesside, england, steam coming from a refinery

OIL SANDS, Alberta, Canada. The worlds largest petroleum resource basin.

heavy coal excavator in coal mine

An industrial building with a high winding tower under a cloudy sky, Essen, Ruhr Area, Germany, Europe

View from the winding tower of Shaft II to the winding tower of Schacht IV, Zollern Colliery II/IV, Dortmund, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Illuminated view of the former steel plant in Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe, PublicGround, Europe

Exclusion zone, Lost place, Pripyat, in the uninhabitable 30-kilometre zone around the Chernobyl power plant and the Pripyat workers' settlement, Crane at the jetty, Cemetery of cranes, Ukraine, Europe

Overburden conveyor bridge F60

CABLE INGLES - 1901 - CARGUERO DE MINERAL PARA BARCOS,TRANSPORTADO POR VIA FERREA. Location: PUERTO DE MINERAL. Almería. SPAIN.

Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, Torfaen, Monmouthshire, South Wales, UK

Industrial plant with several shaft frames and brick buildings under a partly cloudy sky, Westerholt, Herten Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

CONVEYER SYSTEM IN AUTOMATED DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSE

Overburden conveyor bridge F 60, length 502m, height 75m, built 1989-1991, today a visitor mine, general view from the north

Model and original, winding tower of the Zollverein Colliery Shaft XII, Essen, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Headframe, mine Zollverein Shaft XII, Essen, Ruhr district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Former winding tower of Konrad shaft, wind turbine. The disused iron ore mine is being converted into a repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Characteristic of the Ruhr area around 1973, here in Nov. 1973, were the coal dumps all over the area. The Monopol colliery was scheduled for closure, so the flag was at half-mast

Bischofferode, disused potash shaft

Lichterfeld, 26.07.13 Aerial view of the F60 exhaust conveyor bridge in the visitor mine, Lusatian Industrial Heritage Energy Route, International Building Exhibition, IBA, Fürst-Pückler-Land, Lusatia, Brandenburg, Lichterfeld, Germany

LWL Industrial Museum Zeche Zollern, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Visitor mine F60 in Lichterfeld Visitor mine F60 in Lichterfeld

Illuminated machine hall with winding tower in the evening, Zollern Colliery, Dortmund, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Aerial view of a crane in the new residential expansion in Tractorul, and area in Brasov, Romania.

Because of the strong wind, the miller shortens the covering of the wings of an old cap wind mill because of the strong wind, the miller shortens the covering of the wings of an old cap wind mill

Docks in Holland

Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, Light Art, Industrial Culture Route, Former Meiderich Ironworks, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Ruins of the blast furnaces of an industrial waste land Moselle

Old harbour crane, cargo crane, battery, Hoechst, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Exclusion zone, Pripyat, in the uninhabitable 30-kilometre zone around the Chernobyl power plant and the Pripyat workers' settlement, Ferris wheel at the amusement park, Ukraine, Europe

Large excavator on the edge of the Garzweiler opencast lignite mine, Rhenish lignite mining area, Germany, Europe

Prosper-Haniel colliery at night, March, Bottrop, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Bridge construction site, Pirna, Saxony, Germany, Europe

multiscreen cinema overall shot showing mining heritage

Shaft mine of the Prosper Haniel mine, Schacht Franz Haniel mine, Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Essen, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Shaft XII

Meiderich steelworks at night, Public Park, Landschaftspark Nord, Duisburg, Ruhr Valley, Ruhrtal, Northrhine Westphalia, Germany

Overburden conveyor bridge F60

Glasebach Mine Harz Exhibition Mine

Traditional grain elevators

German Mining Museum of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Copper Mining Museum (Brittannia B.C. Museum of Mining) in British Columbia, Canada, North America

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