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Inside a mile-deep open-pit copper mine after a catastrophic landslide - Boing Boing
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For the past few months I’ve been reporting a big story on the copper industry for Pacific Standard. It takes a broad look at how the global economic boom of the past decade, led by China and India, is pushing copper mining into new regions and new enormities of investment and excavation. (It’ll be…