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Twin Buttes Open pit Copper mine - Arizona

auteur: Nasa/Novapix

référence: t-naarz-00009

Image Size 300 DPI: 41 * 27 cm

The Twin Buttes Mine, a producer of copper and molybdenum, was closed in 1994 but was recently (2010) purchased by a new owner (Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold) and may reopen. Astronaut photograph was acquired on june 27, 2017 from the International Space Station (ISS).

Keywords for this photo:

2017 - ARIZONA - COPPER - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EXPEDITION 52 - ISS - MINE - USA -