Mines #22
Kennecott Copper Mine, Bingham Valley, Utah 1983
Mines #21
Inco - Frood Open Pit Mine, Sudbury, Ontario 1985
Mines #13
Inco - Abandoned Mine Shaft Crean Hill Mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 1984
Mines #15
Inco Tailings Pond, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 1985
Mines #19
Westar Open Pit Coal Mine. Sparwood, British Columbia, Canada, 1985
Mines #43
Berkeley Pit, Anaconda Copper Mine. Butte, Montana 1985
Super Pit #1
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2007
Super Pit #4
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2007
Silver Lake Operations #1
Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Silver Lake Operations #2
Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Silver Lake Operations #5
Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Silver Lake Operations #8
Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Silver Lake Operations #10
Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Silver Lake Operations #12
Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Silver Lake Operations #15
Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Silver Lake Operations #16
Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007
Tailings #1
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2007
Mines
MINES:
In Burtynsky's images, it is the insatiable human appetite for the world's raw materials that is of primary interest. The tools of manufacturing are sometimes included, but they often function simply as a measure of the immense scale of the scene before us.
AUSTRALIA:
What is at first glance merely a scarred landscape becomes poetic evidence of resources spent, nature transformed as well as realized―or failed―hopes and dreams. The aerial images of the Silver Lake Operations at Lake Lefroy and of the pits and tailings at Kalgoorlie, along with the Dampier Salt Ponds are among the most handsome that Burtynsky has ever made. They combine a kind of mapping with a keenly felt experience of all the hard rock grit, dust and labour transforming these arid lands.