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View through a muddy windshield shows trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. Ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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- RANDY OLSON
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- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
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asia, color image, copper, day, dirty, glass, gold, gold industry and production, indonesia, industrial mines, industrial mines (active), industry, industry and production, lesser sunda islands, machinery, mines, mining, no people, outdoors, photography, pits, production, roads, rock, southeast asia, sumbawa island, transportation, transportation of goods, trucks, vehicles, window
- Contained in galleries
- The Price of GOLD_National Geographic magazine_1/2009
