Location: 46.39474°N, 81.39182°W (approx. to town)
	Photo Date: 17 August, 2007
	ISO: 800
	Shutter/Aperture: 1/1000, F/5
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
	Category: Victoria Mines (Travel)

Cyanide effluents and the effects of sulphuric acid rain have scortched the Sudbury region for over 100 years. The effects of devestation where so severe that NASA used the Sudbury basin as a moon scape for the Apollo missions. It provided a wonderfully rocky landscape, devoid of vegetation and full of Shatter Cones (a geologic feature resulting from high-yield detonations like meteorite impacts or nuclear devices. An area of distinct interest to them at the time).
Unbelievably, the caustic air was simply considered a fact of life in the area and was largely ignored by the local population until the 1970's (see Happy Valley).
The 1929 ban of roast beds in Ontario caused a revolution in the Sudbury landscape. Smoke stacks erupted across the region, including (eventually) the Sudbury Super Stack, once the tallest free standing structure in the world (1972-1976).
Now there's something I'm sure we can all be proud of.
The ban also sealed the end for places like Victoria Mines and the Algoma Eastern Railway that once serviced it.
The damage was already done, however and this small act of internalizing the process and spewing the effects farther into the sky simply diluted the issue and spead it around a little farther.
Apparently 7,000 additional lakes farther.
Besides, sulphuric acid has burned up to 3 inches into the bedrock here. Even with the re-greening programmes, these effects are permanant on everything short of a geologic time scale.

Behind the Lens Details
A slight saturation increase to bring out the ore lines in the granite background and a satisfying colour burn on the tin can to tone down the rust in the can (probably coloured from the soil as much as the can's own demise) that was over emphasized by the over cast sky.
Returned it nicely to a grungy rust colour instead of the surreal orange/red picked up by the camera.