Image credit NASA via Our Amazing Planet All eyes were on Soccer City yesterday as the World Cup played out. However, few eyes were seeing it from above, which is the perspective that reveals the neighboring mountains of waste from gold mines. While Soccer City can hold 97,400 people — a sizable stadium by any standards — it is minuscule compared to the three piles shown in the NASA satellite image above. The big mining companies that make up the gold mining indus… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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World Cup’s Soccer City Shows Scale of Mining Waste in South Africa
