MineDB
115 mines, quarries, and mining sites worldwide. From ancient salt mines to super-pits visible from space.
Deepest Mines
Mponeng Gold Mine
The deepest mine in the world at over 4 km below surface. Rock temperatures reach 60C, requiring mas...
TauTona Mine
The second deepest mine in the world. Name means great lion in Setswana. Rock temperatures reach 55C...
Savuka Mine
Part of the West Wits mining area. One of the three deepest mines in the world. The name means wake ...
Kiruna Iron Mine
The largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world. The mine is so large it causes t...
Homestake Mine
The longest continuously operating gold mine in the US, from 1876 to 2001. Produced 40 million ounce...
Kolar Gold Fields
One of the deepest mines in the world and the oldest in India. Mined for over 2,000 years. The secon...
Super Pits
Bingham Canyon Mine
The largest man-made excavation on Earth, visible from space. Over 19 million tonnes of copper extra...
Mir Mine
A massive open-pit diamond mine, 1.2 km in diameter. A popular story claims helicopters are banned o...
Grasberg Mine
The largest gold mine and second largest copper mine in the world. Located at 4,300 m altitude in th...
Chuquicamata
One of the largest open-pit copper mines by excavation volume. 4.3 km long, 3 km wide, 850 m deep. T...
Superpit (Kalgoorlie)
Australias largest open-cut gold mine. Produces about 800,000 ounces per year. The pit is 600 m deep...
Big Hole
The largest hand-dug excavation in the world. Miners removed 22.5 million tonnes of earth with picks...
Historic Mines
Cerro Rico
The mountain that bankrolled the Spanish Empire. Produced an estimated 60,000 tonnes of silver over ...
Wieliczka Salt Mine
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in continuous operation from the 13th century until 2007. Contains unde...
Naica Mine
Contains the Cave of the Crystals, with selenite crystals up to 12 m long and 4 m wide. The cave tem...
Falun Copper Mine
A UNESCO World Heritage Site. Produced copper for 1,000 years until 1992. Supplied copper for Europe...
Rio Tinto Mines
Named after the red river, colored by millennia of mining. Among the oldest mines in the world, poss...
Las Medulas
A Roman gold mine using the ruina montium technique - flooding tunnels to collapse entire mountains....