Mining and Construction Activities

Images depicting mining sites, construction work, and materials like concrete and crude oil, capturing the industrial and resource extraction landscape.

Chile, Calama, Chuquicamata, Chuquicamata Mine, world's deepest copper mine, elevated view.

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Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

$CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- During the post-launch walk down of Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, observers noted severe launch damage on a 100 X 20 section of the east wall of the north flame trench (seen here). Broken sections of the flame trench wall were scattered from the flame trench to the pad perimeter fence. NASA is forming an investigation board. The flame trench transecting the pad's mound at ground level is 490 feet long, 58 feet wide and 40 feet high. It is made of concrete and refractory brick. The top of the solid rocket booster flame deflector abuts with that of the orbiter flame deflector to form a flattened, inverted V-shaped structure beneath the mobile launcher platform's three exhaust holes. The orbiter flame deflector is fixed and is 38 feet high, 72 feet long and 57.6 feet wide. The deflector weighs 1.3 million pounds. The solid rocket booster deflector is 42.5 feet high, 42 feet long and 57 feet wide. The structure weighs 1.1 million pounds. The$