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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
(Credit: Martin Bernetti/Getty Images)Martin Bernetti/Getty ImagesAway from the tailings, vehicle tracks weave around the Chilean copper mine (Credit: Martin Bernetti/Getty Images)Sergey Zamkadniy/Getty ImagesOrange water fans out over the forested landscape near a disused copper-sulphide mine near the village Lyovikha in the Urals, Russia (Credit: Sergey Zamkadniy/Getty Images)Yuri Smityuk/Getty ImagesLike the surface of another planet, the abandoned Khrustalny mine in Kavalerovo, Russia, which once produced 30% of the Soviet Union’s tin (Credit: Yuri Smityuk/Getty Images)Ina Fassbender/Getty ImagesThe Garzweiler opencast lignite coal mine in Juechen, Germany (Credit: Ina Fassbender/Getty Images)Ina Fassbender/Getty ImagesLignite coal is a soft fossil fuel made of naturally compressed peat (Credit: Ina Fassbender/Getty Images)Xavier Galiana/Getty ImagesAn open coal mine reaches to the horizon near Mahagama, in the Indian state of Jharkhand (Credit: Xavier Galiana/Getty Images)Ali Atmaca/Getty ImagesThe Eti Mine Works in Eskisehir, Turkey, where lithium – a key component of batteries – is produced from boron sources (Credit: Ali Atmaca/Getty Images)Ali Atmaca/Getty ImagesDemand for lithium has risen as our demand for electronics and electric vehicles grows (Credit: Ali Atmaca/Getty Images)Wolfgang Kaehler/Getty ImagesThe Rossing Uranium Mine in Namibia, one of the largest open pit uranium mines in the world, in the Namib Desert (Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/Getty Images)Nicolas Economou/Getty ImagesLike a jewellery pendant, a pond at an abandoned magnesite pit near Vavdos village in the mountains of Chalkidiki, Greece (Credit: Nicolas Economou/Getty Images)Alexander Ryumin/Getty ImagesThe snowy Mir diamond mine in Russia hints at what our descendants may discover. What will they make of these legacies of our consumption? (Credit: Alexander Ryumin/Getty Images)--
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