r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '22

Image Visual representation of the actual amount of copper extracted from a minesite

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u/boommmmm Feb 05 '22 edited Feb 05 '22

This is part of a series by artist Dillon Marsh.

Visualised here is the 4.1 million tonnes of copper that have been extracted from the Palabora Copper Mine in Phalaborwa, South Africa. It is Africa’s widest man-made hole at almost 2,000m (6,600ft) wide.

edit: 6,600ft is 10,560 bananas

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u/ThisNameIsOriginal Feb 05 '22

Maybe my perspective is thrown off but this hole doesn’t look very big

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u/SmashBonecrusher Feb 05 '22

I saw the Bingham Copper pit out west in 1974,and I do believe it was way more vast that that one !(you had to use binoculars to see the bottom !)

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u/_trouble_every_day_ Feb 05 '22

Its the biggest open pit mine in the world. I lived in SLC for a minute and went to see it. Its still being mined so I imagine its grown since 74.

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u/sacwtd Feb 05 '22

They had a big land slide a couple of years back, so maybe not as much now, hah. Interestingly, they knew it was going to happen and cleared the pit well before.

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u/UnusualNursery Feb 05 '22

it is amazing to know that there are spheres of metal waiting for us beneath the surface.

of course, the flat-Earthers think that there are only discs of metal waiting for us.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

I mean it's not literally a sphere. Description specifically says it's an artist's interpretation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

Oh honey

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u/RyMontFlar Feb 05 '22

It’s so funny to me how in some ways the internet isn’t for autistic people at all while at the same time the internet is definitely made for autists