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Earth Resources. The Popular Image of Mining Sutter’s Mill – Where it all Began.

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1 Earth Resources

2 The Popular Image of Mining

3 Sutter’s Mill – Where it all Began

4 American River, Coloma, California

5 Monitor, California

6 Aqueduct, California

7 Old Mining Canal, California

8 Sluice Box, California

9 Dredge Spoils, California

10 Malakoff Diggings, California

11 Strip Mines, Kentucky

12 Abandoned Coal Mines, Kentucky

13 Open Pit Mine, Arizona

14 Bingham Canyon Pit, Utah

15 Bingham Canyon

16 Everything in Mines is Big

17 Everything in Mines is Very Big

18 Dragline

19 Where Are They Now? The Krupps

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27 Climax, Colorado, 1969

28 Climax, Colorado, 1999

29 Climax Mine Underground

30 Sand Mine, Pepin, Wisconsin

31 Casting Sand, Ripon, Wisconsin

32 Taconite Pelletizer

33 Taconite Pellets

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35 Open Pit Mine, Sudbury, Ontario

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37 Crusher

38 Mill

39 Ball Mills

40 Mill Control

41 Flotation

42 Smelter, Sudbury, Ontario

43 “Superstack”, Sudbury, Ontario: 1% of the entire planet’s sulfur emissions – 40,000 tons/day

44 Slag Pouring, Sudbury, Ontario

45 Molten Metal Car

46 Slag Cars, Sudbury, Ontario

47 Slag Dump, Sudbury, Ontario

48 Mine Tailings, Sudbury, Ontario

49 Uranium Tailings, New Mexico

50 Tailings, Bingham Canyon

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52 Mercury Mine, California

53 Mine Runoff, Colorado

54 Climax Tailings Ponds

55 Cutting Bits for Tunneling Machine

56 Conventional Tunnel, New York City

57 Bored Tunnel, New York City


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