This image by Joshua Dudley Greer is from his Somewhere Along the Line series

An image of mine tailings? Was it another example of mining company coming to Idaho with the promise of jobs and a semblance of security only to leave (taking jobs with them) a wake of environmental destruction? I

n the case of southern West Virginia, what was hidden beneath the surface was coal and it has been extracted in the most violent of means, often using TNT, and then left flattened, forever altered.