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Three unidentified miners at Badger Hole, possibly at the Badger Lead Mine in Nevada.

Yellow Jacket Mine.

Description provided with image: "Head works, Quartette Mine, Searchlight, Nevada."

Open pit mine.

Mining in Arizona.

An open-pit copper mine located in Ruth, Nevada. Surface mining is done by removing (stripping) surface vegetation, dirt, and, if necessary, layers of bedrock in order to reach buried ore deposits. Techniques of surface mining include: open-pit mining, which is the recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying, identical to open-pit mining except that it refers to sand, stone and clay; strip mining, which consists of stripping surface layers off to reveal ore/seams underneath; and mountaintop removal, commonly associated with coal mining, which involves taking the top of a mountain off to reach ore deposits at depth. Most (but not all) placer deposits, because of their shallowly buried nature, are mined by surface methods. Finally, landfill mining involves sites where landfills are excavated and processed.

Three men (Marko Dobro on the far right) stand at a mine's entrance behind the Goldfield Hotel.