While on a recent trip south to see my family I was zipping down I-77 in southwestern Virginia and had to do a double-take when I passed this scene near the town of Poplar Camp. It was a crappy overcast day but I noted the mile marker so I could stop on the shoulder on the way back.
The stark contrast of the forest and the bare rock dwarfing the heavy equipment being used to destroy the landscape is stunning to me. I cannot believe that we allow this kind of man-made destruction to occur.
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Powerful and sad in the same frame Pete.
If this is where I think it is it’s behind where my great grandmothers house is or used to be in Poplar Camp Va. That mine has been ther since the early 60′s as far as I know. I think it’s a sulfer mine. My name sake that lived across the street from my great grandmothers house sold them some of the property before I was born.
Let me ask you this. Where are we supposed to get minerals and ore from? Thin air?