![](http://www.alamy.com/thumbs/6/15748DFC-2561-4708-8699-2D56E5D791AE/GEM7AY.jpg)
Opencast
An early morning scene in the massive opencast mine in Jalanur close to the Russian border in north eastern China. As recently as March 2009 - when this picture was made - the exhaust from up to a dozen steam locomotives could be seen and it was an unforgettable sight to watch them zagging in and out of the pit as they worked on the various levels
Size: 4992px × 3328px
Location: Jalanur
Photo credit: © Colin Garratt / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: age, architecture, archival, archive, black, china, chinese, classic, coal, colin, eastern, engine, garratt, heavy, historic, historical, history, industrial, industry, iron, jalanur, landscape, locomotive, machine, mechanism, metal, mining, mongolia, north, passenger, rail, railroad, railway, rust, scenic-railway, smoke, soot, station, stationary, steam, steel, technology, track, traditional, train, transport, travel, village, villages, world, worldwide