A shot from the series of works "DESTRUCTION"

The Levikhinsky mine. Sverdlovsk region, Russia.
The mine has been abandoned and flooded since the beginning of the century. Water, mixing underground with copper pyrite (it has a high sulfur content) forms a mixture of sulfuric acid with large amounts of copper and other metals and all of this leaks out.
This water constantly pours out and comes up to the surface through layers of rock and they enter into a chemical reaction, oxidize and highly acidic streams, containing heavy metals begin to look for a slope and move along it.
The station was built at the mine (it seems to be dilapidated) to neutralize mine water with the help of lime, but it does not cope with the amount of work (lime mixes with acidic water and turns its color into light turquoise).
Then water flows into a sacrificial lagoon, where heavy metals and other harmful components should settle to the bottom, but it is full and needs to be cleaned.
Only some of the effluents are neutralized, but all of them are then released from this pond and move towards the Tagil River, and then enter the Lenevsky reservoir, which has been considered to be in trouble because of this mine.
After that, everything flows into the Tagil reservoir from which water is used for the hot water supply in Nizhny Tagil city.