Digging for Gold | Nat Geo Photo of the Day

Overhead view of a rocky goldmine with a few roads carved into it.

Digging for Gold

A view of an active open-cut gold mine in Western Australia. These mines, which extract minerals from the surface of a hole or pit in the ground, operate in remote areas hundreds of miles from city centers. Scott McCook is drawn to photographing these sites from above, offering a view of a world average Australians will never see. To him, such images reveal "what exists beyond the horizon and allows [people] to explore the details and environmental effects for themselves," he writes on social media.

Scott McCook