The Aikwa River, a waterway drowning under its load of mine tailings, finely ground waste rock from PT Freeport Indonesia's Tembagapura Mine. Timika, West Papua, Indonesia

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Size: 5243px × 3450px
Location: Timika, Mimika Regency, Papua, Indonesia
Photo credit: © Philip Game / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: aikwa, copper, country, degradation, developing, gold, grasberg, guinea, indonesia, indonesian, mining, papua, papuan, pollution, tailings, waste, west, world