If you ever wondered how much nation mass had to be proceed to produce that rhombus engagement tintinnabulation , this series of photograph should help put things in view .
Dillon Marsh , a photographer and artist from Cape Town , describes his ongoing For What It ’s Worth serial publication as an attempt to quantify minelaying , “ an industry that has determine the story and thriftiness of the area so radically . ” Last class , Marsh convey exposure of famous cop minesthroughout South Africa , did the math to figure out how much metal had really been remove , and infix a scaled CGI globe of copper into each landscape .
As we all know , diamond is much rarer than copper , so it ’s not surprising that running through the same physical exertion again yields a much smaller amount of valued stone . Still , the sheer volume of Earth that gets blasted away to extract a relatively minor amount of diamond is breathtaking . In decree to properly depict this , for each mine Marsh captures a zoomed - out figure of the intact endocarp , followed by a conclusion - up of the diamond itself .
All double reproduce with permission from Dillon Marsh . you could retard out more of his work on his site . [ Dillon MarshviaPetaPixel ]
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