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Surface gold mine with haul truck in foreground, in Kalgoorlie, Australia. Mining in the engineering discipline is the extraction of minerals from the ground. Mining engineering is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying.
The Ombilin Coal Mine (formerly PT Tambang Batubara Ombilin (TBO)) is a coal mine near Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located in a narrow valley along the Bukit Barisan mountains, among the Polan, Pari, and Mato hills, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) northeast of Padang .
Nickel mining in Sulawesi. Nickel mining in Indonesia began with small-scale exploratory mining operations during the Dutch East Indies era and began to expand in the 1960s. . Most of Indonesia's proven nickel reserves are located in the islands of Sulawesi and Halmahera, and the country has the largest annual production and reserves of nickel in the wor
Nickel exploration activities in Weda Bay, 2005. Nickel deposits were discovered in the Weda Bay area in Central Halmahera in 1996, and a joint venture between Canada-based Weda Bay Minerals and Antam (10%) was established in 1997.
PT Adaro Energy Indonesia Tbk is an Indonesian coal mining company, the country's second-largest by production volume and largest by market capitalisation. In the 2023 Forbes Global 2000, Adaro Energy was ranked as the 1393th-largest public company in the world. [1]
Rock blasting at the large open-pit Twin Creeks gold mine in Nevada, United States.Note the size of the excavators for scale (foreground, left), and that the bottom of the mine is not visible.
Grasberg Mine location map. The Grasberg mine has one of the largest reserves of gold and copper in the world. [2] [3] It is located in Mimika Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia near Puncak Jaya.
PT Aneka Tambang Tbk, colloquially known as Antam, is an Indonesian mining company. The company primarily produces gold and nickel, and is the largest producer of nickel in Indonesia . Until 2017, Antam was a directly state-owned company , before its ownership was transferred to PT Mineral Industri Indonesia (Persero) or MIND ID, a government ...