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Film transparency of an open-pit copper mine, Ruth, Nevada, August, 1937

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Date

1937-08

Description

An open-pit copper mine located in Ruth, Nevada. Surface mining is done by removing (stripping) surface vegetation, dirt, and, if necessary, layers of bedrock in order to reach buried ore deposits. Techniques of surface mining include: open-pit mining, which is the recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying, identical to open-pit mining except that it refers to sand, stone and clay; strip mining, which consists of stripping surface layers off to reveal ore/seams underneath; and mountaintop removal, commonly associated with coal mining, which involves taking the top of a mountain off to reach ore deposits at depth. Most (but not all) placer deposits, because of their shallowly buried nature, are mined by surface methods. Finally, landfill mining involves sites where landfills are excavated and processed.

Digital ID

pho017877

Physical Identifier

0245_0063
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Citation

pho017877. Anita Freeman Photograph Collection on Southern Nevada. PH-00245. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1vd6p81c.

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Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

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2629 x 1573 pixels
4.382 x 2.622 inches
12,407,131 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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image/tiff