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Person in a yellow high-visibility vest smiling beside a wellhead whose pipe gushes water onto plastic sheeting, with an orange cable reel, on a mountain top above hazy hills and the moon in a blue sky. — Aquifer Testing Above The Clouds Olgu Yurttas

Deep blue lake filling a former open-pit mine, with steep grey slate walls, dry orange slopes with scattered trees and tall golden grass in the foreground. — Return to the Blue Lagoon Antonio Jordán

Slender, pale brown snake coiled around a geological hammer with a blue rubber handle, lying on gravelly ground. — A geologist poisonous snake Mohammad Goudarzi

Silhouettes of two people on a dark hilltop against a dramatic grey sky full of rounded bumpy clouds, with the sun breaking through behind them. — Between rocks and heaven Kristina G Dunkel

Calm greenish lagoon reflecting the dense green trees and reeds along its far bank, with dark tree shadows across the water in the foreground under a clear blue sky. — Artificial lagoon on an old restored quarry in the Green Corridor of Guadiamar, near the Doñana National Park Antonio Jordán

Open patch of bare pale sand surrounded by dry yellow grass and a few small shrubs, with tall umbrella-shaped pines and other trees behind under a clear blue sky. — Experimental plot preserving unaltered toxic sludge in the proximity of the Doñana National Park Antonio Jordán

Panorama of a fenced plot of pale bare sand and dry yellow grass with scattered shrubs, bordered by a low wall on the right and dark green pines under a blue sky. — Experimental plot preserving unaltered toxic sludge in the proximity of the Doñana National Park Antonio Jordán

Fenced field of dry yellow-brown grass and bare sandy patches marked with small pink stakes, with shrubs, trees, white chimneys and a power pylon in the distance. — 20 years after the Aznalcóllar disaster Antonio Jordán

Silhouettes of people in hard hats walking out of a dark tunnel mouth into bright daylight, with logs, bare trees, cables and forested hills beyond the entrance. — Workers exiting a mine shaft, Bawsaing, Myanmar Ian Watkinson

Person in a checked shirt and woven conical hat carrying a battered basin full of reddish rock fragments on their head, in front of a reddish-brown excavated slope. — Gold mining on the Shan Plateau, Myanmar Ian Watkinson

Bare red, orange and grey mining spoil slopes on a hillside, with a pale grey waste heap at the left and scattered small pine trees on flat, stony ground in front. — Soil contamination near La Zarza abandoned mine Antonio Jordán

Underground passage carved through pale rock, lit orange in the foreground and yellow-green further in, with piles of rubble along the walls and a cable lying across the dusty floor. — Light in a limestone cave Emanuele Intrieri

Close-up of a skarn rock with fans of radiating golden-green hedenbergite crystals intergrown with black ilvaite and patches of pinkish mineral, a 20 cent euro coin for scale. — Hedenbergite - Ilvaite skarn, Calamita, Island of Elba Samuele Papeschi

Close-up of a wet, bright orange deposit covered in a network of fine wavy ridges like small terraces, between dark brown and black glistening rock. — Weathering "terraces" Samuele Papeschi

Cluster of metal-roofed shacks with tangled power lines in front of a large white glacier and snow-covered rocky peaks under a blue sky with white clouds. — A glacier condemned to death by the greed of man Oscar Vilca

Rounded boulder streaked with yellow, pink and white mineral colours in the foreground, between a dark rock and a forested mountain ridge capped by grey clouds. — Just like scoops of ice-cream Hédi Prokos

Polished stone eggs in many colours, turquoise, red, banded orange, green, purple and clear, arranged on a glass shelf around a chrome pole in a museum display case, some with number labels. — Russia geo history Unknown Anton Chupilko

Giant bucket-wheel excavator with a long conveyor boom on the edge of a vast terraced open-pit mine stretching to the horizon, a red car on the sandy floor and plants in the foreground. — Sophienhöhe Silvia Inzoli

Mine wall of orange-banded rock salt enclosing a folded grey anhydrite layer broken into blocks, with white salt filling the gaps, and a person in a red helmet and white overalls holding a ruler. — Folded and Boudinaged Anhydrite Layer David Tanner

Pool of vivid blood-red water reflecting pale clouds, edged by a crust of yellow and white deposits and surrounded by dark grey heaps of mine waste rubble, with a second red pool behind. — Rouge Joaquín Delgado

Large heap of rusty scrap metal, including old vehicles, tanks and machinery parts, lying among pale rubble mounds in front of a bare rocky mountain under a blue sky. — Human unconformity Jošt V. Lavrič

Enormous round open-pit mine with stepped grey and rust-coloured terraces spiralling down to a small pool of muddy green water, with a town on the far rim. — Mirny open pit, Siberia Jean-Daniel Paris

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