PT Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg Mine workings in the highlands of West Papua (2000)

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The Ore 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

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Size: 2600px × 3804px
Location: Tembagapura, West Papua, Indonesia
Photo credit: © Philip Game / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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