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Marine Environmental Science Collection
(Acc. No. 1996-006)

(photo of the Baugainville Copper Mine, in Papua New Guinea)

Bougainville Copper Mine in Papua New Guinea, located in the distant mountains, opted in 1970 to discharge its tailings to a river valley, from which the tailings flowed over the flood-plain to form a prograding delta at the sea edge.

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