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Residents in the village of Carmacks, Yukon, living near the former Tantalus Butte coal mine say they want something done about coal fires burning underground. Although the mine was abandoned in the late 1970s, coal seams have since been burning deep underground. Residents in the village complai...
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Open-Pit Mines Seen From Space People have become significant earth movers, outpacing all sources of natural erosion. More and more of our footprint can be seen from space in many forms, including cities, reservoirs, agriculture and deforestation. Among the most impressive human scars on the pl...
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Frunze coalmine
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Rescuers have evacuated about 500 miners from the Frunze coalmine in the Lugansk Region in eastern Ukraine after a fire started in a tunnel at a depth of 870 meters.
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Baiyun Obo Rare-earth Iron Mine Expand (117kb, 800 x 600) Latitude: 41°47'50.69"N, Longitude: 109°57'57.21"E
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The Hartley Colliery Disaster was a major Mining accident or disaster in Northumberland, England in 1862. The accident happened on 16 January 1862 when the huge beam used to de-water the mine suddenly broke, and one end plunged into the shaft of the pit. When the broken half of the beam fell, it demoli...
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Duzdagi salt mine
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Archaeological investigations at the salt mine of Duzdagi (Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan) Dr Catherine Marro (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), Dr Veli Bakhshaliyev (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Naxçvan, Azerbaijan) The mine of Duzdagi is a major salt dome locate...
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Wilgie Mia ochre mine
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Wilgie Mia is an ochre mine in the Weld Range of Western Australia. Excavations have occurred for at least 40,000 years and 14 000 m³ of material has been removed, leading to suggestions that this is the world's oldest continuing mining operation. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilgie_Mia...
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Alshar mine
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They say it holds a secret no less than that of the Universe. That it guards the answer to the power of the Sun. No, it is not the latest Spielberg blockbuster. It is a mine. But a mine covered in a veil of mystery. Alshar, an ancient mine located in the southern Balkans, in Macedonia, is said to contain min...
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Mir Mine
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Mir Mine also called Mirny Mine is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine was discovered on June 13, 1955 by Soviet geologists Yuri Khabardin, Ekaterina Elagina and Viktor Avdeenko during the large Amakinsky Expedition in Yakut ASSR. Read more Yakutia. Mirny...
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Chile's huge open-pit copper mine goes underground From above, it looks like a colossal amphitheatre carved from rock, or the vast crater from a meteorite that crashed into Chile's Atacama desert ages ago. Inside the world's largest open-pit copper mine, dump trucks as big as two-story houses wor...
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