THIS IS THE world’s longest conveyor belt.
It runs for 100km across the desert of Western Sahara, and was constructed decades ago by a phosphate mining operation. Instead of trucking the phosphate ore across the sands to the coast, they simply built a giant conveyor belt to do the job for them.
The machine is so long, it is visible from orbit. Some of the light-coloured ore blows off the belt and creates a giant stripe across the desert.
This is what it looks like from space:
You can clearly see its path all the way to the coast.
Here’s where the belt starts at the mine:
And stretches out far into the distance:
via Neatorama
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