Gallery: These Giant Copper Orbs Show Just How Much Metal Comes From a Mine

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    Tweefontein Mine

    *Tweefontein Mine.*South African artist Dillon Marsh focuses on how human activity leaves traces, or scars, on the environment.
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    *Okiep West Mine 2.*His *For What It's Worth* series is a strange visualization of the South African mining industry.
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    Blue Mine

    *Blue Mine.* He compiled numbers on the historical output of pure minerals from five mines in the Namaqualand region, and then used Google Earth to approximate the area of those mines.
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    Jubilee Mine

    *Jubilee Mine.* With those data sets, he used CGI to render huge copper orbs to approximate the amount of copper that's been extracted from the earth.
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    Nababeep South Mine

    *Nababeep South Mine*
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