Day 215: prompt : *SCARRED BY MAN*
The Iron Blow is the site of the earliest major mining venture at Mount Lyell, back in 1883.
The lookout gives a vertigo-inducing view of the landscape scarred by historical mining activity.
​Originally started for gold it was quickly converted to extract the large quantities of copper they found and it's copper leaching out into the flooded pit that gives the water a vivid aqua blue colour. Gormanston, Tasmania.