Piled up sand excavated from former farm fields near Ogies in Mpumalanga during coal mining. Smothering the landscape and vegetation and trees. Ogies is a settlement in Nkangala District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It is a coal-mining town 29km south-west of from the N4, African Exploration Mining. 26 October 2018 Photograph: John Hogg

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Size: 5542px × 3670px 70.4cm × 46.6cm - 200dpi
Location: Ogies, South Africa
Photo credit: © John Hogg / AfriPics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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