ULTRADISTANCIA COLOR MINES SERIES
SYAMA TABAKORONI Mbembéré, Mali Intricate patterns of industry and earth, where human ambition meets the raw beauty of the desert. Syama, a vast gold mine in southern Mali, unfolds like a fragmented canvas—its open-pit and underground veins tracing the hidden alchemy of time. A landscape reshaped, a silent dialogue between extraction and abstraction.
ST IVES GOLD MINE Western Australia, Australia A satellite fine art piece capturing the vast expanse of one of Australia’s top gold producers. Located near Lake Lefroy in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields, St Ives has yielded over 10.5 million ounces of gold since the 1980s. Operated by Gold Fields, the site blends underground and open-pit mining within the mineral-rich Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, transforming the landscape into a striking abstract composition.
SAN CRISTOBAL MINE Potosí, Bolivia One of Bolivia’s largest open-pit mines. Located in the Lipez region of Potosí, this massive silver, lead, and zinc operation is among the world’s top producers, shaping the landscape into a striking visual imprint. Operated by Sumitomo Corporation, the mine processes up to 50,000 tons of rock daily, revealing the scale of human intervention in the terrain.
BOR DOO COPPER COMPLEX Bor, Serbia Serbia Zijin Copper DOO Bor is a copper mining and smelting complex in Bor, Serbia. It is a joint venture between the Serbian government and Zijin Mining Group, a multinational mining company based in China. The complex was founded in 1904 and is now one of Serbia's largest and most profitable companies. It produces over 35,000 tons of copper annually
ANTELOPE, NORTH ANTELOPE ROCHELLE & BLACK THUNDER MINES Wyoming, USA The vast expanses of Antelope, North Antelope Rochelle, and Black Thunder mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin are distinctly visible. Among the largest in the world, these mines drive significant coal production that powers a substantial portion of the United States. Their immense scale and impact on the landscape underscore the critical role of coal mining in the nation's energy infrastructure.
FRANKE MINE. Antofagasta, Chile - Franke is an open-pit copper mine located at an altitude of approximately 1730 meters above sea level in the Atacama desert, on the Antofagasta region of Chile.
RIO HUAYPETUE Madre de Dios, Perù - Located in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon is an large area of ilegal and irregular gold mining, responsible for the deforestation of more than 100,000 hectares. Over the past decade, small-scale miners have transformed the landscape from tree-covered marshlands to a desert pockmarked with polluted ponds, leaking mercury into the local food web. Peru is the first gold producer in Latin America, In Madre Dios, where 46,000 artisanal miners are extracting minerals, only 10% is legal.
MACRAES MINE East Otago, New Zealand - The country largest gold mine, consists of a large scale opencast mine opened in 1990, and a newer underground mine, opened in 2008. It is situated close to the settlement of Macraes Flat and is owned by OceanaGold.
ESCONDIDA-ZALDIVAR. Atacama Region, Chile - Escondida mine consist in two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world. Next is Zaldívar Mine, an open-pit, heap-leach copper mine which produces copper cathodes using the solvent extraction and electrowinning process.
LA COIPA. Atacama Region, Chile - La Coipa is a gold and silver mine active from 1993 in the Atacama region of northern Chile.
CAUÊ. Minas Gerais, Brazil - Iron-gold-palladium mine with unique precious-metal-bearing mineral assemblage. Because of their association with altered iron-formations, gold deposits of this type are referred to as a Jacutinga (a local term for auriferous quartz veins hosted by itabirites of the Itabira iron formation) type deposits.
MOATIZE. Tete Province, Mozambique - The Moatize coal mine located in the Tete Province of Mozambique is one of the world's biggest coal mines by reserves. The mine produced 4.03Mt of metallurgical coal and 4.73Mt of thermal coal in 2019, compared to 6.1Mt of metallurgical coal and 5.4Mt of thermal coal in 2018.
GRIFFIN & EWINGTON. Western Australia, Australia - Griffin Coal Mine and Ewington Coal Mine are larges mines near the town of Collie in Western Australia, producing about 8 mn tons of coal annually.
HEMLO. Ontario, Canada - Hemlo has produced more than 21 million ounces of gold, and has been operating continuously for more than 30 years. It consists of the Williams mine—an underground and open pit operation—located about 350 kilometers east of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
SISHEN & KHUMANI. Kathu, South Africa - Khumani Iron Ore Mine – formerly known as the Bruce, King and Mokaning (“BKM”) Project, which refers to the farms on which the iron ore resources are located – is situated approximately 30km south of the town of Kathu and approximately 65 km north of Beeshoek Mine, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The Sishen mine is a large iron mine located in central South Africa in Kathu, Northern Cape. Sishen represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in South Africa and in the world having estimated reserves of 2.43 billion tonnes of ore grading 58.6% iron metal.
TENKE-FUNGURUME. Lualaba, Democratic Republic of Congo - Tenke Fungurume Mining SA (TFM) is one of the largest copper and cobalt producers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Construction on the site began in the latter part of 2006, and in 2009, TFM produced its first copper. Tenke Fungurume Mining takes its name from the two neighbouring communities of Tenke and Fungurume.
SABODALA. Sabodala, Senegal - Sabodala is a large-scale gold mine located in the West African Birimian geological belt. It is situated approximately 404 miles (650km) east of Dakar, the capital city of Senegal.
TSHIPI BORWA. Kalahari CBDC, South Africa - Tshipi Borwa mine is an open pit manganese mine in the Kalahari Manganese Field (KMF) located in the Northern Cape. Approximately 80% of world's known economic manganese resources are contained in the Kalahari manganese field in South Africa. The open-cut mining operation is located just north of Sishen and is adjacent to South 32's large open-cut Mamatwan mine that has been operating for decades.
KAMOTO. Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo - The Kamoto Mine is an underground copper and cobalt mine to the west of Musonoi in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The exploitation rights are owned by the Kamoto Copper Company, a joint venture between Katanga Mining and the state-owned Gécamines
BULYANHULU. Shinyanga Region, Tanzania - Bulyanhulu Gold Mine is a narrow-vein underground gold mine containing gold, silver, and copper mineralization in sulfides in the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania, located 55 kilometers south of Lake Victoria.
VELADERO. San Juan, Argentina - The Veladero mine is one of the largest gold mines in Argentina and in the world. The mine is located in the north-western part of Argentina in San Juan Province. The mine has estimated reserves of 10 million oz of gold.
M’HAOUDAT MINE. Tiris-Zemmour District, Mauritania - M'Haoudat is a small iron ore surface mine in the Tiris-Zemmour District of northern Mauritania operated by the majority state-owned mining company SNIM.
NEVES CORVO. Baja, Portugal - Neves-Corvo mine is a zinc-copper mine 15 km southeast of Castro Verde, Portugal and 220 km southeast of Lisbon, in the district of Beja It has a dedicated rail link to the port of Setúbal. The mine is principally accessed by shaft mining and a ramp from surface. It is a main producer of copper and zinc mineral.
RAJO ESPERANZA CENTINELA. Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Chile - Centinela produces copper concentrates –mainly containing gold– through a grinding and flotation process in the sulfide line; and copper cathodes using a solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX-EW) procedure on the oxide line.
![SALAR DE OLAROZ.
Jujuy, Argentina - The Salar de Olaroz mine is one of the largest lithium mines in Argentina.[1] The mine is located in northern Argentina in Jujuy Province. The Salar de Olaroz mine has reserves amounting to 619 million tonnes of li](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bd8f9a18dd060a572297f9/2640dc3c-4459-4a4b-8818-d537c3bb6f21/SALAR-DE-OLAROZ-Argentina-Jujuy-Color-Mines-Ultradistancia-Satellite-Fine-Art-Federico-Winer-Acrylic.jpg)
SALAR DE OLAROZ. Jujuy, Argentina - The Salar de Olaroz mine is one of the largest lithium mines in Argentina.[1] The mine is located in northern Argentina in Jujuy Province. The Salar de Olaroz mine has reserves amounting to 619 million tonnes of lithium ore grading 0.2% lithium thus resulting 1.21 million tonnes of lithium
SALAR DE UYUNI. Potosí, Bolivia - Salar de Uyuni, amid the Andes in southwest Bolivia, is the world’s largest salt flat. It’s the legacy of a prehistoric lake that went dry, leaving behind a desertlike, nearly 11,000-sq.-km. landscape of bright-white salt, rock formations and cacti-studded islands.
SPENCE. Antofagasta, Chile - Spence was the first greenfield large-scale mining project to be developed in Chile in six years. Ore is processed at the rate of 50,000t a day. The Spence expansion is expected to extend the mine life of the project by 50 years and add around 200,000 tonnes of annual copper output.
TONKOLILI. Northern Province, Sierra Leona - The Tonkolili mine is a large iron mine located in central Sierra Leone in the Northern Province. Tonkolili represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Sierra Leone and in the world having estimated reserves of 12.8 billion tonnes of ore grading 64% iron metal.
MADRE DE DIOS II Madre de Dios, Perù - Located in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon is an large area of ilegal and irregular gold mining, responsible for the deforestation of more than 100,000 hectares. Over the past decade, small-scale miners have transformed the landscape from tree-covered marshlands to a desert pockmarked with polluted ponds, leaking mercury into the local food web. Peru is the first gold producer in Latin America, In Madre Dios, where 46,000 artisanal miners are extracting minerals, only 10% is legal.
Ultradistancia Color Mines is a photographic art series that delves into the world of mining through the use of satellite imagery. The series presents a captivating and one-of-a-kind look at some of the most impressive mines from all over the world, highlighting their vast scale and complexity.
The photographs in the series showcase the effect of mining on the surrounding landscape and environment, revealing the striking contrast between the natural world and the man-made structures of the mines. The images offer a unique and thought-provoking perspective on these incredible feats of human engineering and their impact on our planet.
About Ultradistancia Color Mines
Through astonishing color artworks, the series is a powerful and unparalleled visual representation of the mining industry, providing an in-depth examination of the human and environmental impact of mining. It is an insightful and thought-provoking look at the world of mining and how it shapes our planet. Ultradistancia Color Mines offers a distinct viewpoint on mining and its effect on our world and is a must-see for anyone interested in the mining industry or the environment.
BOR DOO COPPER COMPLEX - Bor, Serbia Serbia - 150 x 71 Black Gallery Frame
“Satellite images of our world are incredible on their own. But artist Federico Winer has taken aerial photography to a new level by portraying planet Earth as a mesmerizing kaleidoscope of geometric patterns and colors”.
— Gizmodo
VELADERO MINE. San Juan, Argentina - 180 x 85.9 - White Gallery Frame
The Huffington Post described “Ultradistancia” as a “whimsical understanding of travel…[that turns] the world into a petri dish of colors and shapes that requires no migration at all.”
— 6SQFT
ESCONDIDA-ZALDIVAR. Atacama Region, Chile - 150 x 71 cm - Black Gallery Frame
“Ultradistancia series looks like microchips on acid”
— Fast Company
FRANKE MINE - Antofagasta, Chile - 150 x 71 - Natural Gallery Frame
“An unconventional perspective of the earth, allowing the human eye a glimpse of that seen by the lens of computer cameras”
— ArchDaily
SPENCE MINE. Antofagasta, Chile - 150 x 71 cm - Acrylic
“He was drawn to this corner of our Earth because of the contrast between the human intervention on the land and the natural geography of the place.”
— Twyla
RIO HUAYPETUE Madre de Dios, Perù - 110 x 52 cm - White Frame with Mat
SYAMA TABAKORONI Mbembéré, Mali Intricate patterns of industry and earth, where human ambition meets the raw beauty of the desert. Syama, a vast gold mine in southern Mali, unfolds like a fragmented canvas—its open-pit and underground veins tracing the hidden alchemy of time. A landscape reshaped, a silent dialogue between extraction and abstraction.
ST IVES GOLD MINE Western Australia, Australia A satellite fine art piece capturing the vast expanse of one of Australia’s top gold producers. Located near Lake Lefroy in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields, St Ives has yielded over 10.5 million ounces of gold since the 1980s. Operated by Gold Fields, the site blends underground and open-pit mining within the mineral-rich Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, transforming the landscape into a striking abstract composition.
SAN CRISTOBAL MINE Potosí, Bolivia One of Bolivia’s largest open-pit mines. Located in the Lipez region of Potosí, this massive silver, lead, and zinc operation is among the world’s top producers, shaping the landscape into a striking visual imprint. Operated by Sumitomo Corporation, the mine processes up to 50,000 tons of rock daily, revealing the scale of human intervention in the terrain.
BOR DOO COPPER COMPLEX Bor, Serbia Serbia Zijin Copper DOO Bor is a copper mining and smelting complex in Bor, Serbia. It is a joint venture between the Serbian government and Zijin Mining Group, a multinational mining company based in China. The complex was founded in 1904 and is now one of Serbia's largest and most profitable companies. It produces over 35,000 tons of copper annually
ANTELOPE, NORTH ANTELOPE ROCHELLE & BLACK THUNDER MINES Wyoming, USA The vast expanses of Antelope, North Antelope Rochelle, and Black Thunder mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin are distinctly visible. Among the largest in the world, these mines drive significant coal production that powers a substantial portion of the United States. Their immense scale and impact on the landscape underscore the critical role of coal mining in the nation's energy infrastructure.
FRANKE MINE. Antofagasta, Chile - Franke is an open-pit copper mine located at an altitude of approximately 1730 meters above sea level in the Atacama desert, on the Antofagasta region of Chile.
KAMOTO. Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo - The Kamoto Mine is an underground copper and cobalt mine to the west of Musonoi in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The exploitation rights are owned by the Kamoto Copper Company, a joint venture between Katanga Mining and the state-owned Gécamines
CAUÊ. Minas Gerais, Brazil - Iron-gold-palladium mine with unique precious-metal-bearing mineral assemblage. Because of their association with altered iron-formations, gold deposits of this type are referred to as a Jacutinga (a local term for auriferous quartz veins hosted by itabirites of the Itabira iron formation) type deposits.
ESCONDIDA-ZALDIVAR. Atacama Region, Chile - Escondida mine consist in two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world. Next is Zaldívar Mine, an open-pit, heap-leach copper mine which produces copper cathodes using the solvent extraction and electrowinning process.
M’HAOUDAT MINE. Tiris-Zemmour District, Mauritania - M'Haoudat is a small iron ore surface mine in the Tiris-Zemmour District of northern Mauritania operated by the majority state-owned mining company SNIM.
RIO HUAYPETUE Madre de Dios, Perù - Located in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon is an large area of ilegal and irregular gold mining, responsible for the deforestation of more than 100,000 hectares. Over the past decade, small-scale miners have transformed the landscape from tree-covered marshlands to a desert pockmarked with polluted ponds, leaking mercury into the local food web. Peru is the first gold producer in Latin America, In Madre Dios, where 46,000 artisanal miners are extracting minerals, only 10% is legal.
HEMLO. Ontario, Canada - Hemlo has produced more than 21 million ounces of gold, and has been operating continuously for more than 30 years. It consists of the Williams mine—an underground and open pit operation—located about 350 kilometers east of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
LA COIPA. Atacama Region, Chile - La Coipa is a gold and silver mine active from 1993 in the Atacama region of northern Chile.
SISHEN & KHUMANI. Kathu, South Africa - Khumani Iron Ore Mine – formerly known as the Bruce, King and Mokaning (“BKM”) Project, which refers to the farms on which the iron ore resources are located – is situated approximately 30km south of the town of Kathu and approximately 65 km north of Beeshoek Mine, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The Sishen mine is a large iron mine located in central South Africa in Kathu, Northern Cape. Sishen represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in South Africa and in the world having estimated reserves of 2.43 billion tonnes of ore grading 58.6% iron metal.
MACRAES New Zealand - In East Otago is New Zealand's largest gold mine, and consists of a large scale opencast mine opened in 1990, and a newer underground mine, opened in 2008. It is situated close to the settlement of Macraes Flat and is owned by OceanaGold.
MADRE DE DIOS II Madre de Dios, Perù - Located in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon is an large area of ilegal and irregular gold mining, responsible for the deforestation of more than 100,000 hectares. Over the past decade, small-scale miners have transformed the landscape from tree-covered marshlands to a desert pockmarked with polluted ponds, leaking mercury into the local food web. Peru is the first gold producer in Latin America, In Madre Dios, where 46,000 artisanal miners are extracting minerals, only 10% is legal.
NEVES CORVO. Baja, Portugal - Neves-Corvo mine is a zinc-copper mine 15 km southeast of Castro Verde, Portugal and 220 km southeast of Lisbon, in the district of Beja It has a dedicated rail link to the port of Setúbal. The mine is principally accessed by shaft mining and a ramp from surface. It is a main producer of copper and zinc mineral.
TENKE-FUNGURUME. Lualaba, Democratic Republic of Congo - Tenke Fungurume Mining SA (TFM) is one of the largest copper and cobalt producers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Construction on the site began in the latter part of 2006, and in 2009, TFM produced its first copper. Tenke Fungurume Mining takes its name from the two neighbouring communities of Tenke and Fungurume.
GRIFFIN & EWINGTON. Western Australia, Australia - Griffin Coal Mine and Ewington Coal Mine are larges mines near the town of Collie in Western Australia, producing about 8 mn tons of coal annually.
MOATIZE. Tete Province, Mozambique - The Moatize coal mine located in the Tete Province of Mozambique is one of the world's biggest coal mines by reserves. The mine produced 4.03Mt of metallurgical coal and 4.73Mt of thermal coal in 2019, compared to 6.1Mt of metallurgical coal and 5.4Mt of thermal coal in 2018.
RAJO ESPERANZA CENTINELA. Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Chile - Centinela produces copper concentrates –mainly containing gold– through a grinding and flotation process in the sulfide line; and copper cathodes using a solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX-EW) procedure on the oxide line.
SABODALA. Sabodala, Senegal - Sabodala is a large-scale gold mine located in the West African Birimian geological belt. It is situated approximately 404 miles (650km) east of Dakar, the capital city of Senegal.
![SALAR DE OLAROZ.
Jujuy, Argentina - The Salar de Olaroz mine is one of the largest lithium mines in Argentina.[1] The mine is located in northern Argentina in Jujuy Province. The Salar de Olaroz mine has reserves amounting to 619 million tonnes of li](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bd8f9a18dd060a572297f9/e18d0848-f210-4d2c-93e7-6989aa647fef/SALAR-DE-OLAROZ-Argentina-Jujuy-Color-Mines-Ultradistancia-Satellite-Fine-Art-Federico-Winer.jpg)
SALAR DE OLAROZ. Jujuy, Argentina - The Salar de Olaroz mine is one of the largest lithium mines in Argentina.[1] The mine is located in northern Argentina in Jujuy Province. The Salar de Olaroz mine has reserves amounting to 619 million tonnes of lithium ore grading 0.2% lithium thus resulting 1.21 million tonnes of lithium
BULYANHULU. Shinyanga Region, Tanzania - Bulyanhulu Gold Mine is a narrow-vein underground gold mine containing gold, silver, and copper mineralization in sulfides in the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania, located 55 kilometers south of Lake Victoria.
SALAR DE UYUNI. Potosí, Bolivia - Salar de Uyuni, amid the Andes in southwest Bolivia, is the world’s largest salt flat. It’s the legacy of a prehistoric lake that went dry, leaving behind a desertlike, nearly 11,000-sq.-km. landscape of bright-white salt, rock formations and cacti-studded islands.
SPENCE. Antofagasta, Chile - Spence was the first greenfield large-scale mining project to be developed in Chile in six years. Ore is processed at the rate of 50,000t a day. The Spence expansion is expected to extend the mine life of the project by 50 years and add around 200,000 tonnes of annual copper output.
TONKOLILI. Northern Province, Sierra Leona - The Tonkolili mine is a large iron mine located in central Sierra Leone in the Northern Province. Tonkolili represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Sierra Leone and in the world having estimated reserves of 12.8 billion tonnes of ore grading 64% iron metal.
TSHIPI BORWA. Kalahari CBDC, South Africa - Tshipi Borwa mine is an open pit manganese mine in the Kalahari Manganese Field (KMF) located in the Northern Cape. Approximately 80% of world's known economic manganese resources are contained in the Kalahari manganese field in South Africa. The open-cut mining operation is located just north of Sishen and is adjacent to South 32's large open-cut Mamatwan mine that has been operating for decades.
VELADERO. San Juan, Argentina - The Veladero mine is one of the largest gold mines in Argentina and in the world. The mine is located in the north-western part of Argentina in San Juan Province. The mine has estimated reserves of 10 million oz of gold.