Glowing Orange lakes seen from airplane at night
The orange lakes are most likely tailing dams, also known as tailings storing facilities given that they located near an open pit iron ore mine.

Once iron ore has been mined it is usually sent to a processing plant to increase the grade (amount) of iron in the product the mine exports. It does this by removing as much waste material as possible. Sometimes the waste is low grade iron ore (very low concentration of iron);.

Usually the ore is crushed, ground and treated chemically. What is deemed as waste (tailings) is sent/dumped to a tailings dam. There will always be an amount of unrecoverable iron in the tailings which will give the tailings a reddish color. Low Moon angles may accentuate the red or orange coloring.