There is great beauty in the sulfurous, lava - like flows of «
Nickel Tailings # 34 (and # 35) Sudbury, Ontario» (1996) or the gorgeous abstraction of cut granite in «Rock of Ages # 17 E.L Smith Quarry, Barre VT» (1991).
Burtynsky's «
Nickel Tailings No. 30» reveals warped topography from above.
Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955),
Nickel Tailings # 34, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996, chromogenic colour print.
Not exact matches
I may add that these two companies (Lihir and Ramu
Nickel) and its consultants have argued before the Court that, because the site is located in a seismically active and high rainfall zone with sharp topography, a conventional land - based
tailings storage facility (TSF) is too expensive and environmentally unsuitable.
With the support of New Caledonia's dominant ruling party, the RPCR (Rassemblement Pour le Caledonie dans la Republique), the International
Nickel Company of Canada made plans to dig up large portions of the reef for calcium carbonate to neutralize its acidic
tailings.