This image depicts an expansive open-pit mining or quarry site in Hoche, Nigeria, under a hazy daytime sky

This image depicts an expansive open-pit mining or quarry site in Hoche, Nigeria, under a hazy daytime sky. The foreground comprises dry, light-brown, disturbed earth with scattered darker patches and visible cracks, across which the elongated shadow of a person, likely the photographer, is cast from the bottom right towards the center. In the midground, a yellow industrial truck, possibly a tanker or dump truck, is situated on a curved dirt track. The background reveals large excavated areas with exposed stratified layers of reddish-brown and lighter-colored earth on sloped banks. On a higher, bare mound to the far right, a small light-blue structure with a red roof section, resembling a portable building or office, is visible. A distant, indistinct treeline and low hills mark the horizon under the pale blue sky. The scene is devoid of natural vegetation in the immediate vicinity of the excavations.