the slag heap

Broken Hill is known as the Silver City. Its population is around 20,000. This mountainous slag heap is the backdrop to the town. 300 million metric tons of ore has been hauled from the ground for nearly 130 years. It is he worlds richest source of silver lead and zinc. I tooks this photo from nearly 9km with my zoom

[Penelope Ann]

Amazing lens there Chris

[Nina Ganci]

impressive indeed! looks like a cute town

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot and view.

[Jenfurj]

Wow, 9 kms! Wonderful capture.

[Babs]

Must put Broken Hill on the list for next year. I have been wanting to visit ever since David did a photo shoot for a friends mineral collection. The chap in question came from Broken Hill and lived all over the world as a mining engineer.

[Chris K]

@onewing I a sure you would enjoy a visit to Broken Hill Babs. Lots of interesting things to see and doo and quite a unique town.

[Chris K]

@pennystot @ninaganci @pyrrhula @365projectorgjenfurj

thanks everyone my Canon Powershot SX60 had an amazing zoom

[Dianne]

Great image and such a huge backdrop to the town.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Wow, I know the Powershots have great zooms- but that is a HUGE mountain! Good shot.

[Veena Gupta]

Good capture. And interesting story.