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Carajás Mine, Brazil
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Carajás Mine, Brazil

The terraced layers of red earth that make up the Carajás Iron Ore Mine contrast with the deep green Amazon Rainforest in this cloud-free image.

Published Jul 29, 2009

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South Africa’s Largest Open-Pit Mine
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South Africa’s Largest Open-Pit Mine

The pit near Phalaborwa and Kruger National Park is the most visible sign of a long history of mining in the region.

Published Jul 30, 2019

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 Iron Mines in Michigan
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Iron Mines in Michigan

Orange ponds on the Upper Peninsula near Empire and Tilden Mines are hard to miss—even from space.

Published Aug 28, 2014

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Bou Craa, Western Sahara
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Bou Craa, Western Sahara

Phosphate deposits are one of Western Sahara’s few natural resources. At the Bou Craa phosphate mine, 100 kilometers (about 60 miles) from the coastal city of El Aaiún, abundant, pure phosphate deposits lie near the surface.

Published Oct 5, 2008

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Mining Permits across West Virginia
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Mining Permits across West Virginia

Mountaintop removal mining dramatically changes the topography across thousands of acres. Mountaintop removal mining alters this topography by reducing the elevation of the ridge lines, flattening out the steep slopes, and also by filling in hollows and stream beds with the excess rock and dirt that once topped the mountains.

Published Dec 28, 2007

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Grasberg Mine, Indonesia
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Grasberg Mine, Indonesia

Located in the Sudirman Mountains of the Irian Jaya province of Indonesia, the Grasberg complex is one of the largest gold and copper mining operations in the world.

Published Aug 1, 2005

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Mining for Iron at Mount Whaleback
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Mining for Iron at Mount Whaleback

The site in Western Australia holds one of the country’s largest and oldest iron ore mines.

Published Oct 17, 2020

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Jwaneng Diamond Mine, Botswana
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Jwaneng Diamond Mine, Botswana

otswana ranks first among the world’s gem-quality diamond producers, and diamond mining makes up 70 percent of the nation’s export revenue. The Jwaneng Diamond Mine, in south-central Botswana, sits atop the convergence of three kimberlite pipes—diamond-rich geologic formations. Because the pipes meet just below the surface and cover some 520,000 square meters (128.5 acres) at ground level, the diamonds are mined from an open pit rather than a mine tunneled below the surface.

Published Oct 26, 2008

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Saving Straddie’s Sand
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Saving Straddie’s Sand

After seven decades, sand mining operations have stopped in Australia’s North Stradbroke Island.

Published May 7, 2020

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Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil
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Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil

In 2007, the Amazon fire season was the worst of this decade. This pair of images shows deforestation and the smoke from intense fires in the 2007 dry season in northwest Rondônia, Brazil.

Published May 28, 2009

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Mining Peru’s Cerro de Pasco
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Mining Peru’s Cerro de Pasco

The city’s economic engine is also a worrisome source of pollution.

Published Mar 16, 2019

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Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah
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Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah

The Bingham Canyon Mine is one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, measuring over 4 kilometers wide and 1,200 meters deep. Mining first began in Bingham Canyon in the late nineteenth century, when shafts were sunk to remove gold, silver, and lead deposits that played out by the early 1900s. It would take the advent of open-pit mining in 1899 to turn the Bingham copper deposit into an economically favorable resource.

Published Oct 22, 2007

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Growth of Mountaintop Mine, West Virginia, 1984-2009
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Growth of Mountaintop Mine, West Virginia, 1984-2009

Landsat 5 observed the growth of one of the largest surface mines in the state it expanded from ridge to ridge.

Published Mar 3, 2010

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Tracking Peruvian Forest Loss from Space
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Tracking Peruvian Forest Loss from Space

The Madre de Dios region has a rich concentration of endemic species, but their habitats are being threatened by human activity.

Published Apr 19, 2019

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Deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil
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Deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil

This pair of images reveals how dramatically and rapidly the Amazon can be transformed. The images compare deforested areas (tan) to forest (green) in 2000 (top) versus 2006 (bottom). The area, which is in southern Rondônia southwest of the Pacaás Novos National Park, was almost completely cleared during the period. The decreased greenness of the remaining forest in 2006 may be from a variety of causes: drought, degradation from logging or accidental fire, or different angles of observation during the two satellite overpasses.

Published Mar 31, 2007

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