Mining and Quarry Landscapes

Dramatic aerial views of mining operations and quarries, highlighting raw earth excavation, soil piles, and industrial activity in various terrains.

NA, USA, Arizona, Bisbee Old Lavender Pit Copper Mine

view of an open pit marble quarry showing heavy duty equipment and rock.

A man stands on a huge pile of coal at a power plant in Zhangye, China.

Heaps of salt after harvest Salins du Midi Salin de Giraud

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Italy, Tuscany, Carrare, Marble Quarry, Raw Marble Block

Iron ore opencast mining in Erzberg Austria / Styria

Namibia. World's largest open-pit uranium mine. (Large format sizes available)

Aerial view excavator working on a construction site.

Opal Mine Open cut opal mine in rural Australia Copyright: xZoonar.com/TimxHesterxPhotographyx 3625624

Stone crusher cutting pebbles use in construction and road building activities, Rudraprayag, Utarakhand, India Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

A man is working in the saline pools at a salt mining operation in Zapotitlan de las Salinas, in the state of Puebla, Mexico.

Maras salt ponds located at the Urubamba, Peru

Montenvers - Mer de Glace - Chamonix, September 2022 Development (cable car/staircase) made to access the Mer de Glace cave and the mountaineering courses of the Mont-Blanc massif. Along the access road to the sea of ice, panels indicate the level of the ice according to the years. They show the significant melting of the glacier The Grotte de la Mer de Glace is fitted out each year to welcome the public

Bog, peat cutting, pricked peat, sod, stacks, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland UK

Marrakech Tanneries, Marrakesh, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Abandoned industrial land.

Workshop participants at sunrise, Coal Mine Canyon, Arizona

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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)

giant diameter discharge water pipes at the beach

Disused Vatter porphyry quarry, Dossenheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Aerial view, building machinery and gravel at a construction firm, Moshi, Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania, Africa

Worker inspecting a gravel pile on a sunny day.

Mining in the granite quarry. Working mining machine - old crane. Mining industry.

Maras Salt Mines in Salinas near Tarabamba in Peru

mining ruins. Stamp mill of Keane Wonder gold mine, Death Valley National Park, California.

Since mid-June, a 9-strong team from the Saxony State Office for Archaeology has been investigating the areas next to the demolished Robotron building that remained undeveloped after 1945. This measure has become necessary because a new residential area with underground car parks is being built here and the construction work for the new buildings would irretrievably destroy the archaeology still preserved in the ground. In the process, building structures and cellars from the 18th century to 1945, four presumably late medieval / early modern house cellar pits and a still undated building floor plan of a predecessor development, which was probably abandoned around 1600 or a little later, cultural layers from the High Middle Ages, 16th and 18th centuries were found., Excavations, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Slate quarry in Aberllefenni. Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom.

Nochten opencast lignite mine of Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG) in Lower Lusatia, Boxberg, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Quarry with a stack of rocks

Italy, Tuscany, Apuan Alps, quarry of Carrara marble

Mechanical shovel excavator in the marble stone pit of Carrara Tuscany Italy

Marrakech Tanneries, Marrakesh, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Ex marble quarry. Arni. Tuscany. Italy

LADAKH, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 10, 2011: Bulldozer cleaning road after landslide in Himalayas. Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Aerial view of a quarry where earth tones blend with the stark white of the extracted material, creating a textured landscape of industry, Alvor, Faro District, Portugal.

France, Larchant, aerial view of sand quarry.

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Outflow of the Harspranget hydroelectric power plant power station in Sweden. Harspranget hydroelectric power station in sweden

Ca s Vilafranquer sandstone quarry Ca s Vilafranquer sandstone quarry, Son Monserrat, Petra, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21542339

Gabion walls in Sharon Springs. New York Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

earth centre progress shot - view of site as disused colliery

Quartz mine exploited in French Guiana

A pile of cotton pallets.

Coal mining facilities at Pyramiden - a former Russian coal mining settlement in Billefjorden, Spitsbegren, Norway. It was founded by Sweden in 1910, and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, then was abandoned January 10, 1998. Pyramiden is currently being re-developed by the Russians, to accommodate tourists.

Tannheimer Tal in Austria, quarry with excavator

Geothermal power plant, Onikobe, Miyagi Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan.

Schleben opencast mine

Marble quarry, Orosei, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

Open pit mine, Butte Montana, USA.

Nepal Annapurna ring traditional village of BRAGA made of dry stones

Alluvial gold mining, Guyana

A scene of the Fort McCoy base operations support troop project area is shown Aug. 4, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. This area was once a fully wooded area. The project work is in an area of land near the old Gate 20 and Improved Tactical Training Base Liberty and the cantonment area fence, said Larry Morrow, troop projects coordinator with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works (DPW). The site plan is to make it into a base operations support site for installation service contractors, such as facility maintenance, roads and grounds, solid waste, custodial, pest management, and more. DPW Operations and Maintenance Division Chief Nate Sobojinski said DPW is combining all its service contractors in one location near commercial gate access to keep suppliers from having to drive around post bringing supplies to various locations. Work will continue to be ongoing in the entire area, officials said.

A metal pole with a red and white striped safety net

Death Valley Scenic Byway - The Harmony Borax Works. Located at the abandoned works is some of the old equipment used to mine Borax. Look for interpretive signs at the site to learn more about the uses for some of the curious equipment. Location: California

Aerial view of cranes working at the largest waste dumping yard in Aminbazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Excavator working ataSeydisholaracone,aSelfoss, Iceland

Man mining sulphur at Kawah Ijen Volcano

Two men stand atop a pile of oyster shells in Apalachicola, FL.

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Aerial - Timber loading Northeastern. Tasmania, Australia.

Road constrution, red clay, Nan, Doi Phu Kha, Thailand, Asia

Aerial view of fishermen with fishing nets on sandy beach in Negombo, Sri Lanka.

two joung men standing at a slope of crushed rocks on the stairs

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salt plant , man preparing salt hips , little rann of kutch , gujarat , india

LADAKH, INDIA, SEPTEMBER 10, 2011: Bulldozer cleaning road after landslide in Himalayas. Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Peat extraction, dried cut turves on moor, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, May

Peat cutting, peat sods stacked for drying, in the background area after rewetting, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Worker at Salt pans, Salinas de Maras, Maras, near Cusco, Cuzco, Peru, South America.

Industrial water treatment

Die Überreste der stillgelegten Great Snaefell Mine bei Agneash, Isle of Man Die Überreste der stillgelegten Great Snaefell Mine bei Agneash, Isle of Man LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/BerndxBrueggemannx 23292382

Construction Site and Jet Trails, Atlanta, Georgia

Machine in Greece mining gravel as commodity

Work on a new road inside the boundary of the Langtang National Park (Nepal). Many of these roads are being dug along riverbanks and across slopes that are prone to landslides and pummeling monsoon rains.

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

Archaeological Teams Working On The Restoration Of The Cliffs At Bamiyan, Bamian Province, Afghanistan

Basalt winning, slow matches fixed on walls for controlled demolition

Saltworks in the Sacred Valley of the Incas on the Urubamba, near Maras, Peru, South America

aerial, potash taillings, Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Mining in the granite quarry. Working mining machine - old crane. Mining industry.

Reiche Zeche silver mine, Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Granite quarry

Aerial view of a front end loader in a gravel quarry.

Bolivia, Potosi, tourist wearing protective clothing in front of the Cerro Rico silver mine

LADAKH, INDIA, SEPTEMBER 10, 2011: Excavator cleaning road after landslide in Himalayas. Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Kaolin pit, mining of kaolin, Gebenbach, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Aerial view of an industrial area being prepared to build a community of homes in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Myanmar, Taukkyan, People Working Along The Road To Pegu From Taukkyan Near Yangon.

Rheinkalk GmbH, Brasshausen plant, Rösenbeck plant, quarry, Brilon, Sauerland, Hochsauerlandkreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Artisan gold mining, Mongolia

Marble mines above town of Carrara, Tuscany, Italy

View of the saline pools and baskets of drying salt at a salt mining operation in Zapotitlan de las Salinas, in the state of Puebla, Mexico.

Surface drill rig, bulldozer and haul truck in porphyry quarry, open-pit mine for gravel for road building at Lessen / Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium.

Red gravel mine used for construction and road building, highlands of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

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