These satellite images show how surface mining has changed the Australian landscape.
Even the smallest of these images is several kilometres wide.
There are many more surface mines than those show here, but recent satellite imagery is not been available for all of them. Some images below are composite images.
Tonight's episode of Insight at 8.30pm on SBS One explores what happens to a farming community when a mine comes to town.
The show brings together stakeholders, residents and farmers around Queensland's New Acland open cut coal mine, which has been in operation since 2002, but a long-running push for expansion has faced opposition.
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Daunia
Where: South West of Mackay, Qld (-22.046, 148.287)
Commodity mined: Coal
Company: BHP Billiton Mistabishi Alliance (BMA)
Size: These pictures are roughly 13.5 km wide and 11 km high.
Hope Downs
Where: North western WA (-22.9483, 119.1122)
Commodity mined: Iron ore
Companies: Hancock Prospecting and Rio Tinto
Size: These pictures are roughly 8 km wide and 6.5 km high.
Mangoola
Where: Near Denman, NSW (-32.3, 150.67)
Commodity mined: Coal
Company: GlencoreXstrata
Size: These pictures are roughly 6 km wide and 5 km high.
Western Turner Syncline
Where: North western WA (-22.662, 117.586)
Commodity mined: Hematite
Company: Rio Tinto
Size: These pictures are roughly 2.5 km wide and 2 km high.
