copper mines
Metal extraction sites
Copper mines are sites where copper ore is extracted from the earth, either through open-pit or underground excavation.
The term appears in discussions of industrial history, environmental impact, and commodity markets: The company operates copper mines in Chile and Arizona.
Mining towns often grew up around productive copper mines.
- smeltingExtracting metal from ore
- tailingsPost-extraction mineral waste
- excavationAct of unearthing
- mineral veinsOre-filled rock fissures
- Bronze AgeEarly metalworking civilization period
malachite · metallurgy · mining towns · boom town · open-pit mining · strip mining · refining · flotation · colonial exploitation · child labor · leaching · drilling · mine shaft · ancient trade networks · underground mining · archaeological sites · electrical conductivity · patina
- Australian Miningbauxite, iron ore, gold deposits, opal, nickel
- mining historyminers, gold pan, gold mining, pickaxes, silver mining
- Copperbeltmining towns, Zambia, cobalt, smelters, refineries
- mininggold, mine, coal, oil, shafts
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- ArmeniaYerevan, Mount Ararat, Ararat, Etchmiadzin, Armenian Genocide
copper minesrecycling facilities
Sites processing reusable waste
scrap yards · processing plants · foundries · rolling mills · manufacturing plants
copper minesskyscrapers
Extremely tall urban buildings