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It's a beautiful morning in the Lakes Area of SpringHill Camps. |
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Phelps Dodge Copper town |
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A copper mine in southern Arizona. Obviously there were lighting issues on June 8. |
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At 0.75 miles deep and more than 2.5 miles wide, the Brigham Canyon copper mine in Salt Lake City is the largest human excavation project in the world. Looks pretty sweet in gigapan too! Check out the "tiny" trucks going up the road on the far side. They are carrying about 250 tons of rock on tires that are about 10 feet high. |
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Piles of overburden stripped to reveal the ore at the Ajo, Arizona open pit copper mine dominate the horizon south of town. They also offer insight into the geology of the mine. The yellow streaked piles near the middle of this GigaPan are composed of some of the sulfide mineral (mostly pyrite) bearing rocks associated with the ore zone. Unfortunately I couldn't find a good vantage point to shoot a GigaPan of the mine itself, so the overburden piles will have to pass as a substitute. |
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