Full metal recap

• Autores: Penny Sarchet
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2985, 2014, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Penny features the West O'okiep Mine in South Africa which yielded large amounts of copper. This eerie image, created nearly half a century after it closed, represents the copper extracted throughout the miners lifetime--all 284,000 tonnes of it. To visualize this, Dillon Marsh photographed South African copper mines that had been mined out and abandoned, creating a series called For What It's Worth. Using estimates of each mine's historical output, he calculated the size of an equivalent sphere of pure copper. Marsh then used a combination of Google Earth, a 3D rendering program and Photoshop to plant each sphere at its corresponding mine, complete with accurate reflections of the surroundings on its surface.