EditorialThe open-pit mine in Nyurbinsky in Siberia, Russia, one of the largest diamond mines in the world, on March 27, 2018. (Maxim Babenko/The New York Times)
EditorialIron ore mine at Dannemora, Sweden, where 400 workers toiled in an open pit. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman...
EditorialThe Yellow Pine Pit, a legacy mining site used throughout the 20th century in the historic Stibnite Mining District of central Idaho, Nov. 8, 2021. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
EditorialLandslides from the open pit mine outside?Uglegorsk on Sakhalin Island, a Russian island north of Japan, on Oct. 2, 2021. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialAn open-pit coal mine in Poland on May 18, 2021, one of several Central European countries that have traditionally been more reliant on fossil fuels. (Maciek Nabrdalik/The New York Times)
EditorialA few miles from Edward Bartell's ranch in Nevada, work could soon begin on Lithium Americas' open pit mine. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialIron ore mine at Dannemora, Sweden, where 400 workers toiled in an open pit. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman...