Posted by irasigman 5 hours ago
No, these are the cool ones that take stuff out of the ground, not the ones that destroy everything above them
Then I clicked on one and saw it was the name of our local rock quarry. :)
(I guess technically a "surface mine" for "Construction Sand and Gravel".)
Not every mine is a "classic" underground mine with tunnels, etc.
See (for example) the W.Australian SuperPit gold mine which consolidated every shaft mine in a particular region into a single open pit that goes deeper than any pre existing underground mine in that area.