Exteriors of copper mining plants at the Inspiration Mine and Miami in Arizona. A plant in the background. Smoke stacks emit smoke. View of a mine pit cause by caving beneath it in Miami.
View of a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. A shift of miners transported to underground stope via man-cars. Miners board the man car. The car descends down the mine. Travel shots of the haulage tracks running inside the drift. Timber blocks support the ceiling of the drift.
Mine workers climb a steep slope of a stope at a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Large timber blocks support the ceiling of the stope. Miners around a large mass of copper weighing approximately 8-tons.
Copper rocks sorted from waste at a stope of a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Miners fill ore car with waste rock from a chute. Waste rock is dumped into the stope for filling the stope. Miner draws sorted ore from a chute into an ore car.
Mine workers load copper ore onto skips from ore car at a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Ore is lifted from mine to the upper levels. View of large hoisting machine at work. Miners arrive at the shaft station on a man car. Miners disembark the man-car.
Smoke rises from burning stopes at a copper mine in Jerome, Arizona. Copper ore is mined by the horizontal cut and fill method. Miners shovel broken ore onto chutes running through plank floor in a stope. Cribs are built above ore chutes in the floor. Waste ore is drawn through a chute car and is dumped in the open stope to fill the stope.
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