Soccer City stadium, site of Sunday’s World Cup final, is the largest stadium in Africa — though it seats a bit under ninety thousand spectators in its current configuration, which sacrifices spectator seating in favor of “reserved seating” for the press, FIFA officials, and other “Very Important Persons” — but even its bulk is relatively tame in comparison to the slag piles (“massive dumps of crushed rock discarded after gold extraction”) that sit just to the west of the stadium.
[Via NASA Earth Observatory]
those slag piles reminded me of the footprint of shrimp farms in ecuador–http://aml7.tumblr.com/post/791952101/on-shrimp-farms-and-mangrove-trees