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The Grand Old Ladies from the coalmines.....
We leave the above grounding mining site and see once more the immense coal washing plant where 66.593.000 tons of coal are processed from 1912 until 1987, the year in which the mine was closed. The Beringen mine was closed because coal mining had become far too expensive at great depths in a more than 100 km long tunnel systems.
The steel industry in Liége was declining and because the blast furnaces were large consumers of coal, the need for this type of fuel became fewer and fewer.
What remains are the mining buildings covered by thick layers of rock and coal dust.
The miners have payed of their underground labor with their health, because their lungs were affected by the inhalation of rock and coal dust.
Their lung capacity was reduced to the absolute minimum and they died the terrible death of suffocation. Even to this day, ex miners are dying at this terrible death from this disease.
The Grand Old Ladies from the coalmines.....
We leave the above grounding mining site and see once more the immense coal washing plant where 66.593.000 tons of coal are processed from 1912 until 1987, the year in which the mine was closed. The Beringen mine was closed because coal mining had become far too expensive at great depths in a more than 100 km long tunnel systems.
The steel industry in Liége was declining and because the blast furnaces were large consumers of coal, the need for this type of fuel became fewer and fewer.
What remains are the mining buildings covered by thick layers of rock and coal dust.
The miners have payed of their underground labor with their health, because their lungs were affected by the inhalation of rock and coal dust.
Their lung capacity was reduced to the absolute minimum and they died the terrible death of suffocation. Even to this day, ex miners are dying at this terrible death from this disease.