Juan Manuel Borrero / Aerial view of salt mines, Maras, Peru 2006.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Indian man and woman packaging salt, Salt mines of Maras, Peru 2006.

Willem Kolvoort / View across Bauxite mine, North Suriname . 2003.

Duncan Mcewan / Leaf serpentine mines in Oak leaf (Quercus sp) Scotland, UK

Pete Oxford / Man working in digging pit at gold mines, Andranotsimaty village, Madagascar. This mining encroaches on nearby last remaining Golden crowned sifaka population, an endemic endangered primate.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Exploding rock while mining for gold, Fazenda Brasileiro, Bahia, Brazil Vale do Rio Doce company

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Placing explosives into rock to mine for gold, Fazenda Brasileiro, Bahia, Brazil Vale do Rio Doce company

Ross Hoddinott / Botallack disused tin mines on coast, Cornwall, England

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Deforestation of tropical rainforest for Manganese ore mining, Carajas, Para, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Lesser Flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor) group near Borax mines, altiplano, southwestern Bolivia

Duncan Mcewan / Maidenhair spleenwort fern {Asplenium trichomanes}, Slate Quarry, Argyll

Pete Oxford / Surf bay with mine warning sign. East Falkland Island, Falkland Islands

Pete Oxford / Surf bay with mine warning sign. East Falkland Island, Falkland Islands War

Roberto Rinaldi / Jetties, the remians of pumice mines, Lipari, Aeolian Islands, Italy.

Roberto Rinaldi / Acquacalda (hotwater) beach, Lipari, Aeolian Islands, Italy. In the background is Vulcano another of the seven islands.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Tour leader driving along the tunnel on the working coal mine tour of Mine 7. Spitsbergen, Norway, June 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Tour leader explaining the machinery on the working coal mine tour of Mine 7. Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, June 2006.

John Cancalosi / Hausmannite on Garnet (Andradite), a manganese ore. Sample from South Africa, N'Chwaning Mines, South Africa.

John Cancalosi / Franklinite (ZnFe2O4, zinc manganese iron oxide) was an important ore of zinc until mines around Franklin New Jersey closed. Found only around Franklin New Jersey. Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New...

John Cancalosi / Fluorite (CaF2 - calcium fluoride), a halide mineral popular among collectors, used in aluminium refining, the steel industry and the manufacture of milk glass.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Mine 2b, Julenissegruva, on the hill above Nybyen. Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Norway, 2004.

Richard Du Toit / Coal mines near Witbank, South Africa

Jose B. Ruiz / Close-up of salt in Salt pans at Imon, Guadalajara, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Mill at the salt mines of Imon, Guadalajara, Spain

Nick Gordon / Bom Futuro open cast tin mine separating tin from sludge Rondonia State Brazil - largest