What's with hills and horror, folks? You got your silent hills, the hills have eyes, the list goes on. Far beyond those two examples, in case you're wondering, i simply do not have time to recite the many others
@efi @heatherhorns_lite An imposition not easily ignored or removed unless you're a coal compaly
@efi @heatherhorns_lite *recollections of a childhood spent visiting the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern California, where views of the landscape sometimes indeed were obscured by placer mine tailings, ie, big piles of dirt.
ETA: The big piles of mine tailings were (mostly) due to the mid-1800s California Gold Rush. A lot of small- & large-scale mining took place without little or no thought given to environmental considerations.