Taking coal and copper from BC mountains

In 1985, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky took these pictures of the enormous Westar open pit coal mine located in Sparwood, and the Lornex copper mine in Highland Valley. The depth of these British Columbia mines beggars belief.

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Oil spill photograph from the Gulf of Mexico, seen at the Audain

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Raiding the Canadian Shield and the Peace-Athabasca delta