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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine at Night

Kayford Mountain, West Virginia

Mining operations work around the clock at amazing speed; this lonely stand of trees disappeared in barely a day. The small bulldozer on the upper level pushes loose material down to the loader, which scoops it up into the next earth mover in line which will dump it into a nearby “valley fill,” burying the stream there.