http://miningfocus.org/media daily 0.75 2013-04-16 http://miningfocus.org/open-pit-mines-are-ugly daily 0.75 2014-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1368219225777-HVYJUTKENXCK1A2IQTGX/yay-1513899.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367623583940-L9Q49HWL3K797R5VZV9D/21600471.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Chuquicamata, Chile at night source: codelco.com This is one of the biggest open pit mines in the world, operated by Chilean state owned Codelco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367637188880-JJ945FYSNQ2W1C1NVYLK/VIAJE+AL+VALLE+SAGRADO+%2898%29.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Terraced agriculture South America The area impacted by terraced agriculture is many times larger than all the mining in the world combined. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367621750395-4QJSNSNVKRN1PLOECD1B/2292342252_dcf5eb90f5_o.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Bingham Canyon Utah by John Bullass Snow covered terraces of one of the copper mines that make the US 65% self sufficient in copper. The proposed Pebble deposit in Alaska would allow the US to be 100% self sufficient. In operation since the early 19th Century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1371529713757-URMCZ86V92VEG58B2KV3/Great_Blue_Hole.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Great Blue Hole, Belize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367622021278-NL5I0XEVB0QC5DYR39K9/Open_pit_mine.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - The Big Hole, Kinberley South Africa by Rudolph Botha If it were natural I suspect this old diamond mine would be an object of wonder. We still think it is!  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367623187215-X91XMG56BD3Q047M8FEC/2292341608_980d1241a1_o.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - The Big Hole diamond mine and the town of Kimberly by John Bullas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367637359339-SNSH1R0KB3LGOKXZEILY/sinkhole-work-800x800.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Natural sinkhole! Not a mine... Did we fool you? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367617623938-H1DDPAORM0RGCQF7LACU/kiruna.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Kiruna Iron Mine and Town, Sweden by Fredric Alm Compare the size of the town to the mine! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367636795948-YNV3O98JSUYJUXLDM3G3/yay-5092052.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Ancient Marble Quarry Ever seen the skill of the ancients up close. Overgrown now this channels the feeling one gets in a Japanese garden: the symmetry of the mine benches overgrown by rough, tangled bush somehow confirms that we are children of nature and entwined with the earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367621920537-Z0UKLZTB850OE55ANICJ/2291556265_94cefc2388_o.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Ekati Mine, Canada in Summer by John Bullas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367724230691-43LPJ4E580VHBTYPLKOZ/karst-mexico-The-Zacat%C3%B3n-cenote.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Not a mine! The Zacatón cenote, Mexico Naturally formed sinkholes from the dissolution of limestone by naturally acidic rainwater that has interacted with tropical soil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367622194675-4VXTB2SYG7VJZH6F86WS/LG_124.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - The Kalgoorlie Pit and Town by superpit.com.au Gold terraces in the red earth of Oz:the golden mile of Australia and the town that grew around it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1394836922830-QLIVCOXCMFPG2JAOYSIH/Homestake.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Homestake Gold Mine, North Dakota Citizens of Lead, South Dakota living next to a historic open pit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367623046186-WUMQNZMHJ894ZXD47NT1/Rice_Terraces_of_the_Philippine_+Cordilleras_Philippines_Tourism.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Rice Terraces of the Philippines Upside down mine! These Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are so highly regarded for their visual beauty that they were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367622183546-KKRVKZZWNIOXIKMXQ8L3/Chuquicamata_copper_mine_chile.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Chuquicamata from 30,000 feet by Owen Cliffe No its not the moon, its Chuqui from a plane! The Atacama desert is desolate. This is a sign of intelligent life on this planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367636812071-CERA8VN2J6OE8KFGBGIJ/yay-581861.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Mine benches returning to nature, Russia Now overgrown with wild grass seeded on what was exposed rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367677128102-WO9HTG4I0CA2NYS8GEW6/Banaue-rice-terrace.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Banaue rice terrace – Philippines. by Agricmarketing The rice covered terraces here are about the same height as mine benches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/516c6bb1e4b0e4e26c1d8e53/1367636984529-YPQCZ6BCQG1HM2843UKE/yay-3817301.jpg Open Pit Mines Are Ugly? - Ancient limestone quarry The artisan-ship and skill required to cut these perfect rectangles of rock required an intimate knowledge of the nature of the rock. 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