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  2. Red Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Red Forest (Ukrainian: Рудий ліс, romanized: Rudyi Lis, Russian: Рыжий лес, romanized: Ryzhiy Les, lit. ' ginger-colour forest ') is the ten-square-kilometre (4 sq mi) area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone, located in Polesia.

  3. Flambeau Mine - Wikipedia

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    Flambeau Mine map. The Flambeau Mine was an open pit mine of a copper-gold deposit near the Flambeau River, south of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States. It was mined by a subsidiary of Kennecott Minerals between 1993 and 1997, and returned to a fairly natural state after. As of 2022, it was "the only example of a metallic mine that was ...

  4. National Mine Map Repository - Wikipedia

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    The Green Tree facility provides and stores, digitally and in microfilm (aperture cards), [4] over 182,000 maps of abandoned mines. This repository contains maps of mine workings from the 1790s to the present day. [5] It serves as a point of reference for mine maps and other information for both surface and underground mines throughout the ...

  5. Thacker Pass lithium mine - Wikipedia

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    The Thacker Pass lithium mine is a lithium clay mining development project in Humboldt County, Nevada, which is the largest known lithium deposit in the US and one of the largest in the world, [5] [6] [7] and is believed by some to have the potential to supply up to 25% of the worlds lithium demand. [8]

  6. Hambach surface mine - Wikipedia

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    This today consists of lignite seams up to 100 m thick. At 299 m below sea level, the deepest point of the Hambach open-pit mine forms the deepest artificial depression in North Rhine-Westphalia. [5] Since 1995, the giant bucket-wheel excavator Bagger 293 is used to remove the overburden. It holds several Guinness records for terrestrial vehicles.

  7. Deep level underground - Wikipedia

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    Deep level underground is construction that is 20 m (66 ft) or more below ground and not using the cut-and-cover method, especially train stations, air raid shelters and bunkers, and some tunnels and mines. Cut-and-cover is a simple method of construction for shallow tunnels where a trench is excavated and roofed over with an overhead support ...

  8. Kay Moor, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The mine property was purchased in 1873 by Abiel Abbot Low, managing director of the Low Moor Iron Company in Low Moor, Virginia, which was to be the mine's chief client. [6] The property was kept in reserve until 1899, when the Kay Moor mine was opened to supply coal and coke to the company's blast furnaces .

  9. List of show mines - Wikipedia

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    Gold, they claim to be the largest gold show mine worldwide, over 30 km underground galleries, underground lake 20°23′29″S 43°26′19″W  /  20.3913°S 43.4385°W  / -20.3913; -43.4385  ( Minas da