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Ionah
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Freeport copper mine Irian Jaya (overlay)
      #143008 - 10/03/05 01:32 PM

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Thanx Nasa for the photo of the Grasberg at Irian Jaya (Indonesia) where the Freeport mining company has one of the bigges and controversial gold and copper mine of the world.

Size kmz 4.731kb

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HillModerator
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Re: Freeport copper mine Irian Jaya (overlay) [Re: Ionah]
      #143046 - 10/03/05 01:56 PM

I tried to locate this twice before under the cloud deck, but never was able to find a great overlay picture like you found. Thanks for finding it.

My photo is the same one I think, but cropped much tighter, so I never could get it to line up correctly. Some features are identified.

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Ionah
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More detailed (overlay) [Re: Ionah]
      #143127 - 10/03/05 02:51 PM

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Just found a more detailed image of the Freeport copper mine (nasa)

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