Utah, USA - 29 May 2008 Ths Kennecott Copper Mine is a vast open-pit mine dedicated to extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt La
Utah, USA - 29 May 2008 Ths Kennecott Copper Mine is a vast open-pit mine dedicated to extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. A massive scar in the earth, it nevertheless has a strange type of magnificent, desolated beauty, accentuated in this abstract image of ore tailngs.
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