Mining
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Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada
One of the world’s largest reserves of oil sits under the boreal fores...
Bakken Oil Boom, North Dakota, USA
Even though oil is underground, Landsat images can reveal related land...
Chuquicamata Mine, Chile
The Atacama Desert of northern Chile has minimal vegetation. But it ha...
Diamond Mines, Northwest Territories, Canada
The frozen tundra of northern Canada might not be the first place you’...
Escondida Mine, Chile
Isolated in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, the open-pit Escondida Mi...
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
In a remote part of the Western Australia outback lies one of the worl...
Mesabi Range, Minnesota, USA
The boom times of iron ore mining in northern Minnesota are long gone,...
Mountaintop Mining, West Virginia, USA
Mountaintop coal mining is a major cause of land cover changes in the ...
Muskingum Mines, Ohio, USA
These images show shifting strip mines in eastern Ohio, from 1973 to 2...
Orlando, Florida, USA
The physical growth of Orlando, Florida, especially to the east and so...
Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA
Every day, 100 empty trains enter Wyoming. They leave fully loaded wit...
Salar de Atacama, Chile
If you like being connected to the world everywhere you go with a smar...
The Everglades and Miami, Florida, USA
Referred to as the “River of Grass,” the Florida Everglades is one of ...
Yanacocha Mine, Peru
The expanding Yanacocha Mine dominates the land change seen in this se...