This is a list of open-pit mines .
Super Pit gold mine. Argentina Australia Boddington Gold Mine – gold and copper mine near Boddington, Western Australia Cadia Mine – gold and copper mine located near Orange, New South Wales Challenger Mine – gold mine near Coober Pedy, South Australia Hunter Valley Operations – metallurgic and thermal coal mine near Singleton, New South Wales McArthur River Mine – zinc, lead and silver mine southwest of Borroloola, Northern Territory Prominent Hill mine – copper mine near Coober Pedy, South Australia Ranger Mine – uranium mine east of Darwin, Northern Territory Sunrise Dam gold mine – gold mine near Laverton, Western Australia Super Pit – gold mine near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Telfer Mine – gold and copper mine in the Pilbara , Western Australia Peak Downs Mine – coking coal mine near Moranbah , Queensland Goonyella Riverside Mine – metallurgical coking coal near Moranbah , Queensland Botswana Bulgaria Canada East Pit of Sherman Mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada Adams Mine – abandoned mine in Kirkland Lake , Ontario Athabasca oil sands – second largest proven petroleum reserve in the world as of 2013, located in northern Alberta along the Athabasca river .Barkerville Mine - Gold Mine near Wells, British Columbia Colomac Mine – gold mine in Northwest Territories Copperfields Mine , an abandoned base and precious metal mine in Temagami , Ontario Copper Mountain Mine – Copper mine South of Princeton, British Columbia Detour Lake Gold Mine - Gold mine in Cochrane , Ontario Diavik Diamond Mine – diamond mine in Northwest TerritoriesEkati Diamond Mine – diamond mine in Northwest TerritoriesElkview Operations – Coal mine in the Elk Valley of British ColumbiaFording River – Coal mine in the Elk Valley of British Columbia Gibraltar Mine copper mine near Williams Lake, British Columbia Greenhills - Coal Mine in the Elk Valley of British Columbia Highland Valley Copper – copper mine in British Columbia ]Kanichee Mine , an abandoned base and precious metal mine in Temagami, OntarioLine Creek – Coal Mine in the Elk Valley of British Columbia Marmoraton Mine - abandoned Iron ore mine east of Peterborough, Ontario and North of Trenton, Ontario Mary River Mine – Iron mine in the Mary River region of Baffin Island, Nunavut Mount Milligan – Copper/Gold Mine west of Mackenzie, British Columbia [1] Pine Point Mine – lead and zinc mine in Northwest TerritoriesRed Chris Mine - Copper/Gold Mine 80km South of Dease Lake, British Columbia [2] Sherman Mine – abandoned iron mine in Temagami, OntarioCanadian Malartic Gold mine (Largest in Canada) Chile Colombia Egypt Germany Lignite mine in the background of Lützerath , Germany India Rampura Agucha Mines, Zinc mine in Rajasthan
Indonesia Iran Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Namibia Open Cast Mine, Uncovered Coal Seam, Kai Point Coal Mine, New Zealand New Zealand Papua New Guinea Peru Poland Portugal Romania Russia The Udachnaya pipe in Russia. Abandoned baryte mine shaft in Perthshire, Scotland; an example of small scale open pit mining South Africa The Big Hole – a former diamond mine in Kimberley , dug to 240 m (790 ft) between 1871 and 1914, making it the deepest hand-excavated pit in the world. Now a museum. The Jagersfontein Mine – operating between 1888 and 1971. This was hand-excavated to 201 m (660 ft) by 1911, and the hand-dug pit was sightly larger than the Big Hole. The Palabora Open Pit – mechanically excavated by Palabora Mining Company, in Phalaborwa , Limpopo Province. The pit is 898m deep and 1846m across on top.[5] Voorspoed diamond mine Serbia Spain Sweden United Kingdom United States The Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Arizona Berkeley Pit – former copper mine in Butte , Montana ; now the largest and most expensive Superfund site in historyBingham Canyon Mine – copper mine in Salt Lake County , Utah; largest man-made excavation on Earth; more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine Chino Mine – copper mine in Grant County , New Mexico Cresson Mine – gold mine in Victor, Colorado Fort Knox mine – gold mine in the Fairbanks mining district of AlaskaHull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine – largest open pit iron mine in the world, near Hibbing, Minnesota [7] Lavender Pit – copper mine in Cochise County , Arizona Morenci Mine – copper mine in Greenlee County , Arizona Mountain Iron Mine – iron mine in Mountain Iron, Minnesota Robinson Mine – copper and gold mine in Ruth, Nevada [8] New Cornelia mine – inactive copper mine near Ajo, Arizona Ray mine – Asarco copper mine located in Pinal county, ArizonaRed Dog mine – zinc and lead mine in Red Dog Mine, Alaska Rio Tinto Borax Mine – California 's largest open-pit mine and the largest borax mine in the worldThompson Creek mine – molybdenum mine in Custer County, Idaho Zambia Nchanga Open Pit Mine , Chingola – the second largest open cast mine in the world,[9] covering nearly 30 km2 and up to 400m deep.Area j open cast mine, kitwe, copper ores. See also Mining – Extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the EarthOpen-pit mining – Surface mining techniqueReferences ^ "Centerra Gold". www.centerragold.com . Retrieved 2022-06-17 . ^ "Red Chris | Newcrest". www.newcrest.com . Retrieved 2022-06-17 . ^ "Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited". Archived from the original on 2015-09-18. Retrieved 2022-07-14 . ^ Assari, Amin (2019). "Defining hydrogeology of the Gohar-Zamin open pit mine, Iran: a case study in a hard-rock aquifer". Hydrogeology Journal . 27 : 1479–95. Retrieved 23 February 2023 . ^ "Accommodation Phalaborwa. Bed and Breakfast Phalaborwa.Guesthouse Accommodation.Uncle Tom's". Archived from the original on 2015-07-19. Retrieved 2015-06-18 . ^ (in Spanish) Emed Mining gestiona reapertura al turismo de Corta Atalaya en mina Riotinto, Eleconomista.es, 2007-12-09. Accessed online 2010-01-06.^ "Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine (National Historic Landmark)". Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2017 . ^ "Robinson". Kghm.com . 28 October 2014. ^ "Second Largest Open Cast Mine". Times of Zambia. Archived from the original on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2009-01-28 . 
