What if You Kept All the Metal From a Mine in a Sphere?
Brilliant idea. A little bead of metal among lots of dirt and rock. Just like that tiny fleck of gold in the big fistful of river mud in Alaska or central California. Well perspective always teaches a valuable lesson. This one in a more direct sense than most maybe.
There are precious metals and gems all around us. But have you ever wondered just how much metal comes from the mines we dig to extract the ore from which the final product is made? Maybe not… but one photographer did, and he created the photo series For What It’s Worth to share his findings with you.
More: This Is What All the Metal Extracted From a Single Mine Looks Like as a Massive Sphere