The Knox Mine Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2022
On January 22, 1959, miners at the River Slope Mine of the Knox Coal Company in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, were digging under the Susqu...
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Zheltuga: The Illegal Russian Gold Mining Town That Sprang Up in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2021
In the spring of 1883, gold was discovered on a branch of the river Albazikha, in northern Heilongjiang province in China near the border wi...
The Underwater Mine of Silver Islet
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2021
The small rocky reef at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, Canada, is rich in silver, but mining this precious metal i...
The Abandoned Cryolite Mining Town of Ivittuut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2020
Near the southern tip of Greenland, lies the old mining town of Ivittuut, now a collection of ramshackle houses and sheds and scattered piec...
The Century Old ‘Dream Mine’ That’s Yet to Produce Gold
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2019
On the foothills of Wasatch Mountains, east of Salem, in the US state of Utah, is a mine waiting for a miracle. The mine was first excavate...
The Cavern of Lost Souls
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 22, 2019
Just how difficult can it be to tow an old car to the junkyard to be dismantled, crushed and recycled? Too much, if you ask the council of C...
Bayan Obo: The Chinese Mine That Makes All Gadgets Possible
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2019
In the image above , captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in June 2006, we see some deep scars in the desert—the result of nearly sixty years...
Gabon’s Ancient Nuclear Reactor
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2019
The nuclear age might have begun in America, but it was in Gabon where the world’s first fission reaction started. Gabon is one of the rich...
Porto Flavia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2019
On the west coast of Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, there was once an unusual port. It’s a small opening on t...
Las Médulas: The Largest Roman Gold Mine
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2019
This incredible serrated landscape of red mountains and green chestnut trees is the result of two centuries of destructive mining carried o...
The Canadian Town Called Asbestos
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2018
The asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Photo credit: Denis-Carl Robidoux/Flickr At the heart of the triangle made by the three Can...
The Soledar Salt Mines
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Some 250 million years ago, a part of Ukraine was under a shallow ocean. When the ocean dried up, it left behind a huge deposit of salt whic...
Cerro Rico: The Mountain That Eats Men
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2017
High in the Andes, in southwest Bolivia, towering above one of the highest cities in the world, stands the cone-shaped peak of Cerro Rico —t...
The Sapphire Mines of Ilakaka, Madagascar
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2017
Ilakaka is a small town in the south west of Madagascar along Route Nationale 7, the main road linking the capital city Antananarivo to the ...
Abandoned Kennicott Copper Mining Town, Alaska
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2016
The old mining town of Kennicott in the US state of Alaska is located on the south slopes of Wrangell mountain close to the Kennicott Glacie...
The Hellish Gold Mines of Serra Pelada
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
In the early 1980s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada, some 430 kilometers south of the mouth ...
Villagers Scrap a Living Out of Abandoned Diamond Mine in Brazil
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2016
Deep in the heart of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, along the banks of the Rio Jequitinhonha, rural miners explore the massive open pi...
The Realmonte Salt Mine in Sicily
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2015
In the southern cost of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, lies the town of Realmonte where there is a huge underground sa...
The Lithium Mine Fields of Atacama Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2015
In the wastelands of Salar de Atacama, about 700 miles north of Santiago, is a huge lithium mine field operated by Sociedad QuÃmica y Minera...
Keep What You Find at The Crater of Diamonds
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 20, 2015
The Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, the United States, is the world’s only diamond mine open to the public, where by paying a ...
