Pay Dirt uses freely licensed and public domain photographs, mostly from Wikimedia Commons. Each one is listed here with its author, licence and original file. Where a licence requires it, reuse must credit the author in the same way. Illustrations without a credit (the contour maps) are made by Pay Dirt. AI-generated illustrations are listed on their own, below the photographs.
Photographs
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Waste dumps and plant at Nchanga copper mine near Chingola, Zambia.
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A fuel import depot at Kwinana Beach, south of Perth, Western Australia.
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A hydraulic excavator working a bench at the Premier coal mine near Collie, Western Australia.
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A rope shovel digs broken overburden on a bench beside a loaded haul truck at an opencast coal mine near Collie, Western Australia.
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Benches and haul ramps in the wall of the Chuquicamata copper pit, Chile.
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Rock berms line a haul road in the open pit at Sunrise Dam Gold Mine, Western Australia.
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A bench blast at the Aru-Lõuna limestone quarry, Estonia.
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Processing plant and stockpile at Dwarsrivier chrome mine in the Steelpoort valley, on the eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex.
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A dragline at Goedgevonden opencast coal mine near Ogies, Mpumalanga.
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The Palabora open pit at Phalaborwa, Limpopo.
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Haul trucks on the benches and ramps of a large open pit at Chuquicamata, Chile.
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Loaded haul trucks climb the ramp while excavators and drills work the benches at the Super Pit, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.
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An oil refinery in Milnerton, Cape Town, with Table Mountain behind.
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Sasol's coal to liquids fuel plant at Secunda, Mpumalanga.
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Fuel storage tanks at a TAZAMA pipeline depot.
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Haul trucks and a tanker parked in the yard at an iron ore mine in Thabazimbi, Limpopo.
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A wheel loader works a stockpile at Sishen iron ore mine in the Northern Cape.
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The Union Buildings in Pretoria, seat of South Africa's national government, seen from the terraced gardens.
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Night shift at an open-cast coal mine in Singrauli, India, with vehicle lights streaking along the haul roads.
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Haul trucks on a bench road at Rössing uranium mine in the Namib Desert, Namibia.
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An excavator loads a haul truck on a bench in the Super Pit at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
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A padlocked diesel tank on a site at a former quarry in Sweden.
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A loaded haul truck climbs a ramp in the East Cresson Pit, Cripple Creek, Colorado.
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Haul trucks on a ramp at the Premier coal mine, Collie, Western Australia.
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An analogue hour meter built into a tachometer dial on a small diesel tractor.
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Empty haul trucks queue for the shovel at Rössing uranium mine in Namibia.
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A front-end loader on stands in the workshop at the Brockman 4 iron ore mine, Western Australia.
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A loaded haul truck on a pit road at the Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile.
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A haul truck tips at the primary crusher, Sishen iron ore mine, Northern Cape.
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Part of the pit, haul roads and crushing plant at Sishen iron ore mine, Northern Cape.
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Hydraulic hoses and fittings beside the wheel of a large mining haul truck.
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A front-end loader working an ore stockpile at the Sishen iron ore mine in the Northern Cape.
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A rope shovel loads a haul truck with oil shale at the Narva mine, Estonia.
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Haul ramp and benches in the Super Pit at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, with the fleet at work on the pit floor.
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Mobile cranes and plant at work around a conveyor transfer point at Sishen iron ore mine in the Northern Cape.
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The open pit at Jwaneng diamond mine, Botswana, on a dusty day.
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Husab uranium mine in the Namib Desert, Namibia, from the air.
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A haul truck crosses a public road at Nchanga copper mine near Chingola, on the Zambian Copperbelt.
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Old workings and a tailings dump at King Mine, an asbestos mine at Mashava, Zimbabwe, in 2005.
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Ore stockpiles on the blending beds at Sishen mine in the Northern Cape, the kind of pile a surveyor measures at month-end.
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Benches and haul roads at Bingham Canyon copper mine, south-west of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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A haul truck in for maintenance in the workshop at the Mont Wright iron ore mine, Quebec.
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A haul truck under repair, rear wheel off, at the Brockman 4 iron ore mine workshop in Western Australia.
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Haul trucks queue at a shovel in the pit at Bingham Canyon copper mine, Utah.
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Haul trucks and light vehicles share a pit road at the Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile.
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Aerial view of Two Rivers platinum mine on the eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex.
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Dust rises over the Brockman 4 iron ore pit after a blast, Western Australia.
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Two rigid haul trucks parked on a mine site in Australia.
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A loaded haul truck on the pit ramp at Sunrise Dam gold mine, Western Australia.
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A blasting warning sign at the road into iron ore workings at Thabazimbi, Limpopo.
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The open pit at Sishen iron ore mine, Northern Cape.
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A bucket-wheel excavator works on under its lights at dusk in the Hambach lignite mine, Germany.
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The open pit at Palabora copper mine, Limpopo.
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A shaft headframe and silo near Rustenburg in North West province.
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A drill rig and a row of drilled holes on a bench at the Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile.
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A line of parked rigid haul trucks, standing idle on a gravel pad.
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Drill cuttings heaped at the collars of a row of blastholes on a bench at a limestone quarry near Meiningen, Germany.
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Broken rock heaped in a haul truck body and on the pit floor at the Continental Mine, Butte, Montana.
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Blast-hole drill rigs and haul trucks on a bench in the Chuquicamata copper pit, Chile.
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A mixed fleet of shovel, haul trucks, dozer, loader and light vehicles at the Premier coal mine, Collie, Western Australia.
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The headframe and plant at the Cullinan diamond mine in Gauteng, South Africa.
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The tyres of a retired 200 t haul truck on display in Asbestos, Quebec.
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A loaded haul truck on a haul road at the Continental Mine, Butte, Montana.
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A loaded haul truck at the Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile.
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Refinery storage tanks beside the water near Houston, Texas.
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A shovel and haul trucks at work on the floor of the Continental Mine, Butte, Montana.
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Bulk fuel storage tanks, including diesel, in a bunded tank farm in Minnesota.
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AI-generated illustrations
Made for Pay Dirt with Qwen-Image. They illustrate a subject and do not show real sites.
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A surface mine at blue hour.
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A fuel tanker on a mine road.
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Plans and notes on an engineer's desk.
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A terraced open pit in morning light.
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An open pit at golden hour.
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A contractor's laydown yard from the air.
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A haul road at dusk.
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Blasted rock on a bench.
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A diesel pump at dusk.
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Field tools on a rock outcrop.
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Red mud on a haul truck tyre.
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A flooded quarry pit.
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An ore stockpile and conveyor.
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Diesel storage in a bund.
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A drill rig on a drilled bench.
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A mine equipment workshop.
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A berm and cones on a haul road.
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A headframe in the bushveld.
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A tablet in a machine cab.
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A coal seam exposed under overburden in an opencast strip.
