Jump to content

File:Morenci Mine.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (1,536 × 774 pixels, file size: 898 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: This is one of the pits at Morenci, the largest copper mine in the United States. Almost everything you see in the landscape of this photograph, bar one or two small slivers of dirt, could now be considered 'man made'. All of the rock in these gigantic mountains has been mined, stripped of its minerals and dumped back in place. The mine has been active for almost a century and a half, but the pace of progress in the modern era is almost scary in its intensity. Over a million tons of rock is wrested from the ground every day in an operation that never pauses for breath, working right round the clock - 24 hours a day.
Date
Source Own work. Original copy is available in its full resolution at this address.
Author TJBlackwell

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

23 July 2010

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:14, 4 August 2010Thumbnail for version as of 20:14, 4 August 20101,536 × 774 (898 KB)TJBlackwell{{Information |Description={{en|1=This is one of the pits at Morenci, the largest copper mine in the United States. Almost everything you see in the landscape of this photograph, bar one or two small slivers of dirt, could now be considered 'man made'. Al

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata