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Down in the hole: A photo tour of Australia's …

The Super Pit is the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia. A canyon-size hole populated by house-size trucks, it's large enough to be seen from orbit. ... It only shut down once since it opened ...

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What to know about the Arizona mining town: …

Bisbee's big hole consists of three open pit mines: Sacramento, Lavender and Holbrook. A relic of the town's mining past, the result of man-made environmental destruction has become one of …

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EPA stops Alaska's Pebble mine with rarely used …

The Pebble company had proposed building an open-pit copper and gold mine about 17 miles from Iliamna Lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied Pebble a federal permit two years ago, and …

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PNG government to send military and police in crack down …

The Porgera gold and silver mine was shut in 2020, but has been reopened after the PNG Government secured a 51 per cent share. (ABC News: Tim Swanston) The number of illegal miners — described ...

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Mexico's push to ban open pit mining likely to outlast …

A proposed ban on open pit mining in Mexico will create risks to miners even after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's term ends in September, analysts and miners said.. Mexico's robust mining industry includes a significant share of open pit operations, and the country is a major supplier of silver, gold, copper, zinc and other metals.

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Mexico's Supreme Court could strike down …

GoGold Resources (TSX: GGD; US-OTC: GLGDF) has adapted its Los Ricos South gold-silver project to transition from a wholly open pit plan to underground mining initially. Other projects may never ...

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See how Kennecott's massive open-pit mine grows

Utah's 120-year-old Bingham Canyon Mine continues to produce millions of tons of ore, but satellite photos don't show much expansion of the open pit.

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Open-Pit Mining Definition | Anglo American

Open-pit mining, also known as opencast mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts minerals from an open pit in the ground. ... Small shut-down expense; Ability to mine selectively for certain grades of ore; Comparatively small crew size ; ... Gold; Gravel and Bedrock; Granite; Gritstone; Gypsum; Limestone; Marble; Molybdenum; Silver ...

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As gold mining winds down at N.S. mine, environmentalists …

A drone image of the open pit at Touquoy gold mine owned by the Australian company St Barbara, in Moose River, N.S. Mining in the open pit has ceased, and the site is now processing stockpiled ore ...

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Panama to shut down First Quantum mine after ruling, …

Panama's government said it will shut a $10 billion copper mine owned by First Quantum Minerals Ltd., damping hopes that the company might reach a new deal to keep operating after a supreme ...

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Chile's Pascua-Lama Mine Legally Shut Down, …

Straddling the border of northern Chile and Argentina, with operations in both countries, the Pascua-Lama copper and gold mine project sits in a rust-colored area of the Huasco Valley in the Andes. The …

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Bougainville's $58B gold-copper mine rights safe for now as Mining …

The idled Panguna copper-gold mine was once a major producer and one of the largest open pit mines in the world. ... one of the world's biggest open-pit copper operations, shut down by a civil ...

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Turkey under pressure to shut down gold mine after landslide

Calls grew in Turkey on Wednesday to shut down a controversial gold mine as hopes dimmed of rescuing nine workers trapped by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit.

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De Beers' Victor mine closing doors in 2019

The open-pit Victor mine, Ontario's first diamond operation, officially opened in July 2008. (Image courtesy of De Beers Canada.

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Operations at N.S. gold mine could be suspended if …

The company's subsidiary, Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia Inc., has asked the province to allow it to store tailings — the leftover material after gold is extracted — in the open pit at Touquoy ...

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Mexican mining sector balks at plan to ban open-pit mines

La Herradura, one of Mexico's largest open-pit gold mines. (Image by Fresnillo.) ... It said open-pit mines represent more than $3.9 billion in investment and 200,000 direct jobs, and warned ...

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Proposal to ban open-pit mining advances in Mexican …

The Mexican Mining Chamber (Camimex) opposes the ban on open-pit mining, saying such a prohibition would cause a 1% contraction in the country's GDP and threaten some 200,000 jobs.

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Mexican president proposes ban on open-pit …

Top producers such as Grupo Mexico's Buenavista del Cobre, Newmont Goldcorp's Peñasquito, two of Fresnillo's gold-silver units, and several other mines owned by Industrias Peñoles are open ...

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Agnico explores reopening superfund site, Gilt Edge Mine

Surface gold mining here exposed sulfuric rock that contaminates the water, making it harmful to fish. Even though this mine shut down decades ago, the caustic material must still be filtered before the water is reintroduced downstream. ... To the east are remnants of the decades-old open pit surface mine left by the Brohm Mining …

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Gold mine collapses in Venezuela, dozens feared …

An illegally operated open-pit gold mine collapsed in central Venezuela while dozens of people were working there, leaving an undetermined number dead or trapped, officials said Wednesday as...

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Judge rocks Montana's open-pit mines

The open-pit gold mine at Golden ... "Even after it is shut down, the mine will continue to generate an estimated 95 gallons of toxic water every minute for the rest of time," he noted ...

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The Gold Rush Returns to California

When the mine shut down in 1956, it wasn't because the gold was drying up; it was because of economic policy. ... In Northern Ireland, Dalradian Gold plans to open a mine in the Sperrin Mountains. In Newfoundland, Marathon Gold is slated to open an open-pit mine that the company says will be the largest gold mining operation in …

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Site visit: Reviving the historic Beartrack mine, exploring Arnett gold

The town thrived when the mine was in operations from 1994 until 2000, producing 600,000 ounces and achieving a life of mine recovery of 88%. Operated by Yamana subsidiary Meridian Beartrack, the ...

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Turkey under pressure to shut down gold mine after landslide

Calls grew in Turkey on Wednesday to shut down a controversial gold mine as hopes dimmed of rescuing nine workers trapped by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said five of the trapped workers were believed to be in a container, three in a vehicle and another in a separate part of the pit …

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