
Flying out of Phoenix
Headed south, before banking east
Out the window there appears
A large hole in the ground
Wasn’t sure what I was seeing
Either with the Circled hole
Or with the backgammon design ponds

What it was is a open pit copper mine abandoned in 1984
Which as of 2019, it was bought with plans to reopen
Now called the Cactus mine
For a sense of scale that pit is 3,100 ft. across and 980′ deep