Open-pit mining
Open-pit mining, or opencast, is a method of mining.
Open-pit Mining Media
Rock blasting at the large open-pit Twin Creeks gold mine in Nevada, United States. Note the size of the excavators for scale (foreground, left), and that the bottom of the mine is not visible.
The giant bucket-wheel excavators in the German Rhineland coal mines are among the world's biggest land vehicles.
Kittilä Gold Mine in Kittilä, Finland is the largest primary gold producer in Europe.
Note the angled and stepped sides of the Sunrise Dam Gold Mine, Australia.
A bucket-wheel excavator extracting lignite from Garzweiler surface mine in Germany during 2008
A loadout station and reclaimed land at the North Antelope Rochelle open-pit coal mine, in Wyoming, United States
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