Articles By Section: Still Life
Shadow of the past
One of the winning images from Vale SA’s ‘Eye on Sustainability’ Global Photography Contest 2011 where the theme was Forests: Nature at Your Service. Full story...
Inspired by the Incas
The winner of the 2011 Snowden photo competition Joe Dordo Brnobic photographed the Urubamba salt mine in Peru. The image show the mine, consisting of thousands of pools filled with salt saturated water that filters through salt deposits, from above Full story...Winds of change
Mining projects are not the only developments that can create divided opinions within a community. Other major infrastructure projects such as wind or hydropower projects can also be received both positively and negatively by local communities. Full story...Still life: Eyesore or striking landscape?
In this issue's still life, Clint McCullough provides striking images of post-closure pit lakes Full story...Resource reuse
The image shows Vale SA’s Timbopeba iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, where over of 80% of the water is reused. In 2009, 76% of water at Vale’s operations was recycled or reused, meaning that of the 1,200Mm3 of water needed for Vale operations, only 288Mm3 were withdrawn from nature. The company says its objective is to optimise this practice, continually reducing the amount of water withdrawn from natural sources Full story...Fuel of the future
The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is by far the largest salt flats in the world Full story...Afterlife
Have you ever wondered what to do with a disused mine site? Have you considered turning it into a subterranean physics laboratory to detect cosmic rays or a film studio, like the set of the film Mad Max? Full story...Money makes the world go round
when money is tight, investment in community-development projects may be one of the first expenditures to get dropped. Full story...Dirty business
China’s coal industry is notoriously dirty and dangerous. In 2007, the State Administration of Work Safety recorded 3,786 fatalities from coal-mine accidents, and it has been reported that an average of 17 miners die each day. Full story...Still Life
Images from Minign Enviromental Management Full story...Site Search
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