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, G4 W' O: s8 @- V5 j1 ?4 `2 QTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。People have become significant earth movers, outpacing all sources of natural erosion. More and more TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。( p- Q$ d1 c* t) I, d: e/ j6 \
of our footprint can be seen from space in many forms, including cities, reservoirs,agriculture and 公仔箱論壇% c: W! f. Q% O7 c7 I$ u" w* n5 f& Q  a
deforestation. Among the most impressive human scars on the planet are open-pit mines.
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5 ?5 G$ z; a+ f7 U* z3 R; n/ x公仔箱論壇Above: Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana
) L! ?& c5 }# n: @0 R0 Ftvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThis former copper mine operated between 1955 and 1982. Gold and silver were also mined.
- N; V/ F% ?8 {TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。An elaborate system of pumps and drains kept the local water level low enough for mining. 1 P  ]2 I+ z5 I5 v
Today, the 1,780 foot-deep pit is filled with around 900 feet of very contaminated water filled
9 P- l8 q1 u: ?: o) S6 L+ RTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。with metals and chemicals such as arsenic, cadmium, pyrite, zinc,copper and sulfuric acid. The 公仔箱論壇8 u6 @8 H& {. x2 N2 ~
water can be as acidic as battery acid,and copper can actually be “mined” directly from the water.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。6 J( c4 c# A0 t0 E/ H) q+ v
Currently, the 1-mile-by-0.5-mile pit is listed as a federal Superfund site with the potential to www3.tvboxnow.com+ I6 P: W0 ~" Q$ F- B. L' y3 a+ V
contaminate surrounding ground water, and,surprisingly, is also a tourist attraction, complete
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This photograph was taken Aug. 2, 2006, by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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& ~1 H7 t; Z, C, bTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Escondida Mine, Chile
2 S  }7 |' N! n! U/ b公仔箱論壇The Escondida mine, opened in 1990 at 10,000 feet in northern Chile’s Atacama desert, currently produces tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb8 G2 g/ K, o- h7 G
more copper than any other mine in the world, with 1.5 million tons in 2007, worth more than $10 billion and
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aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.
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Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah
, Q" U: n5 c( yLocated 20 miles outside Salt Lake City in the Oquirrh Mountains, the Bingham Canyon copper pit has produced www3.tvboxnow.com) |' b9 n+ K: k/ I
more than 18million tons of copper over its lifetime, more than any other mine in the world. The pit is about 2.75 TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。) P, G: B0 Q) L' i4 N
miles wide and 4,000 feet deep. Two Empire State buildings stacked one on top of the the other wouldn’t reach 2 b# h- \- c2 j7 w0 r* b; W
the top. By 2015, the mine will be 500 feet deeper, and a third Empire State building will fit inside. The terraces
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feet high. Opened in 1904, the site has been named a historic landmark.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% G' N: S1 `* r; e9 p# b9 o
This photograph was taken Sept. 20, 2007, by astronauts aboard the International Space Station with a digital
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The Yuba Goldfields are a strange culmination of years of pressure-jet mining for gold upstream in the Sierra Nevada, + J7 l- ?( a( v9 `
dredging the tailings out of the river, and mining the tailings for gold and then later for gravel. The result is an odd
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Shortly after gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevadain 1848, panning gave way to highly destructive hydraulic TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。/ b8 d5 O( g$ b% I$ r! ~
mining, which involves blasting sediment away with high-powered jets of water. Gold was extracted from the gravel,
% k6 y5 f. r/ ?$ ~( w2 Gwww3.tvboxnow.comwhich was then dumped and carried downstream by rivers into the Sacramento Valley. The Yuba River ended up with
5 m2 u9 S# K' l" Y2 E685 million cubic feet of the mine waste, which raised the level of the river, overflowed the banks and buried farms.
4 H5 L  U& o; B" q; GTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Dredging of the Yuba began in 1893, and soon after,mining companies began to sift and re sift through the debris to
& U( s9 F4 i! `# ~extract ever-smaller bits of gold. By 1970, all economically feasible gold removal had been completed, and mining of the
. L  n# _8 L' y5 T, ogravel for concrete began. Today, ownership of the land is disputed among mining companies, private owners and the government.
6 h) ]/ o+ X' g- ewww3.tvboxnow.comThis image was taken by the Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite Aug. 29, 2001.
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Toquepala Copper Mine, PeruTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。/ G3 `% J/ r" H
Located in the Andes Mountains in southern Peru, the Toquepala mine is 1.5 miles wide and 2,300 feet deep. 9 A5 ]+ b( l0 W+ i2 g$ d
The mine’s main output is copper, but it also produces gold, silver and molybdenum. The railroad that was www3.tvboxnow.com* r3 R) b6 u/ d  l
constructed to carry the ore 60 miles to the coast can be seen winding down a canyon left of the center,
9 s8 P# W6 x$ @! RTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。heading southwest from the mine. This image was captured by astronauts aboard the International Space TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。* I% I0 X4 k, |
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Mountains. Copper was discovered here in 1936, and gold was first found in 1988. Today,the mine is one of TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。9 W/ @1 V; ]/ `" z
the largest gold- and copper-extraction operations in the world. The open pit is 2.5 miles wide, and there is
/ _$ q/ V" k) `& Y3 }TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。extensive underground mining in the area as well. Glaciers are also visible in the image.
4 a" ?5 k: ?7 ?4 m6 X公仔箱論壇This photograph was taken June 25, 2005, by astronauts on the International Space Station.
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7 F% T3 _# G5 X: v+ p  J  J% fwww3.tvboxnow.comCananea Mine, Mexico
5 _0 ~/ G* ^% Zwww3.tvboxnow.comThe Cananea mine is located 25 miles south of the United States border in Sonora, Mexico. The active Colorada
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gold. Those two metals are often found together where hot magma forced its way up into the overlying bedrock.
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A 1906 miner’s strike at Cananea turned violent and resulted in 19 deaths, contributing to events that led to the 公仔箱論壇( }4 O1 X+ l; T
Mexican Revolution in 1910. Another strike stopped work at the mine in 2007.
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) ^4 {3 V' I6 h$ \" jtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbPhosphate Mines, Jordan
0 M$ Z4 p1 e3 S6 r; STVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Phosphate mining is an important industry in Jordan,which has abundant deposits of the mineral on approximately 60 0 f4 p6 l$ d2 [  s6 P8 v
percent of its territory. Phosphorus is essential to living things, and food can’t be produced without it. Some scientists 公仔箱論壇4 Y% u  n2 j8 z" O3 [
fear a shortage of this critical resource is impending and have predicted the world will reach “Peak Phosphorus,” the
9 a* H# f  R9 t6 g% a" C9 WTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。point at which production will begin to decline, just 30 years from now. There is currently no synthetic alternative.
% k, A$ M6 Z# ], s" t9 A$ Owww3.tvboxnow.comThis image was capture by the Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra
% \( |1 K2 L* b& ]( L4 j0 Q$ |tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbsatellite Sept. 17, 2005. It is a false-color composite of visible and infrared images. Vegetation appears red, water is
. p. x' |6 _* H1 a- ?. h" Ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvbblue, and rock and soil can be anywhere from buff to black. The mining operation is the area just left of center in the
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, x9 L. p, N9 t" N2 stvb now,tvbnow,bttvbCopper was first mined from this area just south of the mining town of Ajo, Arizona, around 1750. The open-pit mine pictured
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5 a3 [: p0 M8 _, LTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。land just to the right of the mine is covered in tailings, and the large gray rectangles above that are containment ponds where www3.tvboxnow.com, R/ O, X  `6 ^! V+ g
the metal was extracted.
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The bright white-and-dark-blue–striped areas on the right side of this image are opencast coal mines in mid western Germany. TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。; ~& l" |1 u9 G
One of the mines is currently being worked by the Bagger 293, the largest machine in the world.The bucket-wheel excavator 公仔箱論壇% y$ y+ X* U  E6 Q+ G
is twice as long as a soccer field and a stall as a 30-story building, and digs up 30 million tons of lignite per year.www3.tvboxnow.com0 m$ `7 }  H# T, Q" E0 u
This image, captured by the Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer aboard NASA’s Terra satellite
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bare ground, and the bluish-gray areas are towns.