Raw Scars: Satellite images of mines across Goa

Village Tinto, Goa Tue, 04/08/2009 - 11:11am Article image

Watch this slideshow of satellite images of mining sites across the state, put together for the first time, exclusively on Village Tinto

 

Goa is known world wide as a tourist paradise. But, silently, away from the tourist hubs, mines and stone quarries are rapidly changing the landscape. Seen from above, these mining sites look startlingly like raw wounds on an otherwise lush green landscape.

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