الثلاثاء، 6 أكتوبر 2009

Ocean vs. open pit mine - ocean wins


In Malaysia a tin mine was excavated right adjacent to the ocean.
In 1993 "I received a call by the owner of a tin mine. He said that his mine, which had been running for a few decades, was about to collapse. I rushed to the scene with my video camera and waited for a few hours. Finally, I took this valuable footage. Although the footage lasted only a few minutes, it is horribly exciting enough."
This is low-resolution video shot by an amateur, but the event is spectacular - first a landslide of the oceanside wall of the mine, followed by an inrush of the ocean.

A slightly better version of the video is here, some info and links here, and a Google map satellite photo of the result here.

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