North America

BHP Billiton Burr Project, Canada

The Burr project is located 140km east of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada. Owned by BHP Billiton, the property is spread over an area of 79,946 acres in the potash sweet spot, which is also called the conventional mining corridor....

Betze-Post Gold Mine, Nevada, United States of America

Betze-Post gold mine, in Nevada, US, is the eighth deepest open-pit mine in the world. The mine is 2.2km long and 1.5km wide, with a depth of more than 500m. It is expected to be operational until 2026. Betze-Post...

Bellekeno Silver-Lead-Zinc Deposit, Canada

The Bellekeno silver-lead-zinc deposit is an underground mine located within the Keno Hill Silver District in Canada's Yukon territory. The deposit is a combination of 11 veins with different strikes, dips and thickness. The target vein for mining, vein...

Bear Run Coal Mine, Indiana, United States of America

Bear Run Coal Mine, located in Sullivan County, Indiana, US, commenced production in May 2010. Owned by Peabody Energy (Peabody), the mine was developed at an estimated cost of $400m. The mine supplies coal to two Midwestern electricity generators....

Bachelor Lake Gold Mine, Canada

Bachelor Lake Gold Mine is located 225km north-east of Val-d'Or in Quebec, Canada. It consists of 177 claims and two mining concessions spread across 4,837.4ha of land. The mine has two blocks: the eastern block (Bachelor Lake claims) and...

Aurora, United States of America

The Aurora phosphate operation is located at Lee Creek in Beaufort County, North Carolina, USA. The largest integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world, it is wholly owned by the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) and has...

Athabasca Oil Sands, Canada

Located around Fort McMurray in the north of Alberta, Canada, the Athabasca Oil Sands – named after the river that cuts through the heart of the deposit – is the largest of province's three oil sands resources. There are...

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