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Earth from space: golden river of poisonous waste spilled from fatal mining disaster in South Africa

Earth from space: golden river of poisonous waste spilled from fatal mining disaster in South Africa

Quick facts

Where is it? Jagerfontein, South Africa (-29.77177410, 25.426807792)))

What is in the photo? A trace of golden mud that meanders like a river

Which satellite took the photo? Landsat 9

When was it taken? October 4, 2022

This scary satellite image shows A Golden river with potentially poisonous waste After a fatal catastrophe in a diamond mine in South Africa, involved in the landscape.

On September 11, 2022, a dam suddenly collapsed in a diamond mine in Jagersfontein and released a flood of mining waste The NASA straw observation means.