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.
Mine workers arrive at a shaft in cars through a tunnel in copper mine in Jerome, Arizona. Trains of railroad cars enter the mine through a tunnel leading to the underground shaft.
Exteriors of a copper mine at Butte in Montana, USA. Sweeping view of mining operations on hillside in background and shops and homes of mining town in foreground. A shift of mine workers waits in queues to enter man-cars at the surface. Miners enter the mine lift elevator cars ready to be lowered in the mine.
View of ventilated drift inside a copper mine at Butte in Montana, USA. A canvas air pipe runs along the length of the drift. Timber blocks support the ceilings of the drift.