Zijinshan Gold Mine Open-Pit Mining Site

　　The Zijinshan Gold Mine initially began underground mining in 1993. After several expansions, it transitioned to open-pit mining in 1997, when it conducted a large-scale blasting to remove the overburden of the upper ore body, enabling low-cost, high-volume stripping of waste rock. By 2000, the mine had fully converted to open-pit operations and adopted the high-bench mining method to reduce infrastructure stripping and investment costs. Utilizing nearby high-level, high-capacity spoil dumps near the pit, it enabled simultaneous dumping operations across more than 30 benches. Within the pit, multiple ore chutes over 200 meters in height, along with adit locomotives or an 1,132-meter-long belt conveyor, were used to transport ore, significantly reducing haulage distances and costs. The entire production site is highly spectacular.