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A thick soil cap was placed over the former smelter site. Some contamination has leaked from the site in recent years.
Spelter, West Virginia

Zinc Smelter

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.
A lonely grave.
West Mercur, Utah

Mercur Cemetery

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.
Silver City Ghost Town
Bodfish, California

Silver City Ghost Town

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.
Oaks Disaster Sculpture
Barnsley, England

Oaks Memorial Sculpture

Graham Ibbesons's moving tribute to the victims of England's worst mining disaster.
The Oaks Disaster Memorial
Barnsley, England

The Oaks Disaster Memorial

A churchyard in Ardsley houses a memorial dedicated to the victims of England’s worst mining disaster.
Uravan, Colorado

Uravan

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.
The Auditor
Butte, Montana

The Auditor Statues

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.
The South 32 Hermosa mine site is only half a mile away from the Soto family homestead, and likely holds the largest undeveloped zinc deposit in the world.
ghost towns

Once a Boom Town, Now a Ghost Town, Always a Hometown

The Soto family has lived through Arizona's mining booms and the broken promises that come with them.
Clara Migoya October 21, 2020
Hornet Balls
Goldvein, Virginia

Hornet Balls

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.
A Fox Coal Company dump truck plants a load of dirt on the Graffiti Highway in April 2020. It took about 400 loads to cover the one-mile stretch of road.
disasters

The End of Centralia's Abandoned, Colorful, Anarchic 'Graffiti Highway'

First the fractured stretch of road became a canvas, then a gathering place. Now it will become forest.
Julie Knutson September 14, 2020
Red Lodge, Montana

Chromium Mill Ruins

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.
Nochten Boulder Park, on the site of an old open-cast coal mine, is one of the newly created landscapes in the Lausitzer Seenland.
lakes

From Mining Hellscape to Holiday Paradise

How Germany's Lusatian Lakes District is remaking an entire region through broad-scale landscape re-engineering.
Megan Gannon July 23, 2020
The old quarry from above.
dinosaurs

Behind a New Jersey Hardware Store, a Paleontological Bonanza

The third episode of TED’s Far Flung podcast was 66 million years in the making.
Anna Phelan June 30, 2020
Today, Barkerville hosts cultural and educational events celebrating the history of British Columbia's Chinese community.
gold rush

In Canada, Gold Rush-Era Garbage Reveals a History of Chinese Immigrant Cuisine

Archaeologists unearthed evidence of pig roasts and boozy gatherings at an 1870s British Columbia eatery.
Reina Gattuso June 23, 2020
Permanently Closed
A few walls are still standing at the base of the chimney. The mine ceased operations in May, 1945.
Millfield, Ohio

Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.
Tea-time photos curated by Proyecto Once show fruit crumbles, breads and tasty toppings, and plenty of tea.
food

How Chileans Turned British Tea Time Into a ‘Fourth Meal’

You might want to try it, too.
Mark Johanson May 14, 2020
The Miner's Stone
Wallyford, Scotland

Wallyford 'Miner's Stone'

This carved memorial is dedicated to the miners who died working in the town's collieries.
The large Wadōkaichin monument.
Chichibu, Japan

Wado Ruins

The birthplace of Japanese coinage.