Google Earth POI

Elevation = 0m at that location :-)

Andrew

How do you search on Google Earth using lat and longs? Where do you place the coordinates?

Dont have google Earth - Whats your point.
I am going to kalgoorlie this weekend maybe I can check it out for you

got it -that is the Super pit and the "degradation" is part of the mine being tailings dams and waste dumps.
a quick scan around will reveal mining actually degrades very little of the area. If you truly want to see large scale land degradation try any weatbelt area for starters

Hey Sign-man,
According to my Google earth it should be 30deg 46'36.77S 121Deg 30 15.56E, when I first started looking I thought you might have been having a go at us, I ended up in the ocean, now that is a big Open Cut. LOL

Regards
Franga

Hi Sign-man

Once that mine has done its bit (estimated at another 7 years) that hole will be filled in. It is a condition of all mines (at least in WA) that they must be restored to their former state.

The topsoil is already being stored and seedling and other vegetation is also put aside so that when the mine closes the seeds can be planted and the area revegetated with the original stuff. What a huge undertaking!

But my wife and I went around the gold trail when we were in Kal this year, and we were continually amazed at how Mother nature is able to reclaim its own and restore its former glory.

Jack

Actually the "super pit" is tiny (about 3 km long) compared to Coal mines in Qld, here are a couple, Blackwater is nearly 100km from end to end.

23°46'41.09"S 148°50'34.18"E (Blackwater)

23°26'55.73"S 148°53'15.56"E (Curragh North)

23°28'33.57"S 148°28'46.32"E (Ensham)

21°46'36.14"S 148°28'45.82"E (South Walker / Moorvale / Coppabella)

21°46'6.23"S 147°58'49.22"E (Goonyella)

22°22'3.89"S 148°16'0.85"E (Peak Downs 48 km long)

There are many others

Ernst Henry Mine near Cloncurry

S20 26 40.2 E140 42 22.3

If you really want to see a good example of large scale land degradation - just check out the land mass that can be found between 113 degree E and 153 degree E and between 10 degree S and 43 degree S. That whole land mass has been degraded.

Hopefully we are on the road to improving what's left.

Jeff

try Bougainville 6°18'53.12"S 155°29'34.47"E