Took this picture from my airplane window on trip from DC to Las Vegas. Any idea what it is?

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image showing Took this picture from my airplane window on trip from DC to Las Vegas. Any idea what it is?

honeybadger3891 on June 8th, 2019 at 10:43 UTC »

It looked like a huge makeup palette but it was on top of mountains it looked like.

Joelets on June 8th, 2019 at 11:01 UTC »

Pools from mining. Possibly copper

jjj49er on June 8th, 2019 at 11:01 UTC »

It looks like a mineral mine.