Milan Radisics / Aerial shot of mining waste and other toxic by-products collected in dry stacks and a big pond, in a large copper mining and hydrometallurgical process plant complex near Gerena, Seville, Spain, Augu...
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Ashley Cooper / China Clay workings, near St Austell, in Cornwall, England, UK, April.
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Ashley Cooper / A scrap metal dump in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / The tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. In addition, tho...
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. August 2012
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Ashley Cooper / Rubbish left by the gold mining industry on the tundra, Nome, Alaska, USA, September 2004.
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Ashley Cooper / The Glentaggart open cast coal mine in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. August 2009.
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Ashley Cooper / The Glentaggart open cast coal mine in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. August 2009.
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Ashley Cooper / Conveyor belt that takes coal from the Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a road head for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. August 2009.
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Ashley Cooper / Conveyor belt that takes coal from the Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a road head for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. August 2009.
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Ashley Cooper / Conveyor belt that takes coal from the Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a road head for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. August 2009.
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Ashley Cooper / The Glentaggart open cast coal mine in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. August 2009.
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Graham Eaton / Abandoned mine buildings and slate waste with tree beside wall in foreground, Cwmorthin, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, UK, October 2016.
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Graham Eaton / Abandoned mine buildings and slate waste, Cwmorthin, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, UK, October 2016.
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Graham Eaton / Waste heaps and ruins associated with the Cwmorthin Slate Mines, Tanygrisiau, Wales February 2014
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Richard Du Toit / Mine dumps, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Pete Oxford / Cofan Indians inspecting waste pit, Rio Agua Rico, Dureno, Ecuadorian Amazon
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Richard Du Toit / Mine dump showing erosion, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa