Open cut operations at PT Freeport Indonesia's rich Grasberg gold and copper mine in the mountains of West Papua, Indonesia. The Ertsberg Mountain discovered by Dutch adventurer Jean-Jacques Douzy in 1936 has been gouged off the map, replaced by a deep pit filled by a pea-soup lake. The Grasberg, another copper mountain, is steadily being replaced by a ghostly step-pyramid. (2000)

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Size: 5235px × 3450px
Location: Tembagapura, West Papua, Indonesia
Photo credit: © Philip Game / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: cast, country, cut, developing, ertzberg, grasberg, indonesia, indonesian, mimika, minerals, open, papua, papuan, pit, resources, tembagapura, tropical, west, world