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Die Zeche Schlägel & Eisen ist ein mittlerweile stillgelegtes Bergwerk in Herten/Westfalen, in der Steinkohle abgebaut und aufbereitet wurde.
The Schlägel & Eisen Mine
The Schlägel & Eisen colliery is now a disused mine in Herten, Westphalia, where hard coal was mined and processed.
Die Zeche Schlägel & Eisen ist ein mittlerweile stillgelegtes Bergwerk in Herten/Westfalen, in der Steinkohle abgebaut und aufbereitet wurde.
The Schlägel & Eisen Mine
The Schlägel & Eisen colliery is now a disused mine in Herten, Westphalia, where hard coal was mined and processed.
They don't need you anymore and your pride has been taken from you and are standing as useless naked fools guarding the gates to hell.....
Your surface drowns in the mine water and you suffocate slowly because you no longer can breath.....
But comfort you, because I too suffocate because of your filthy dust in my lungs from which I owe my impending death.....
And if you see the devil crawling out of his groves to flee, than tell that coward I cursed him........
A part of the immense compressor room of the Winterslag coalmine.
This 1912 building, built in neo- classical style, houses the huge and powerful compressors that supplies the underground explotation with the neccesary compressed air.
A coalmine contains a lot of mine gas that can explode at the slightest spark. All underground tools and transport equipement are driven by compressed air, so that sparking is virtually impossible.
On the bottom floor of the compression room are huge fans that supplies the underground with fresh air and extract the used air upwards.
The addition of fresh air is also necessary to control the temperature underground because it is 45 degrees C at a depth of 750 meters.
So you can easily say that the compressors togehter with the huge fans, forms the heart and lungs of the underground mine.
Before the miners descended to the 750-meters depth , they had to put on their miners' clothing and equip themselves with the safety equipment.
Their everyday clothes and belongings were hung on a cage and hoisted high.
Each miner had his own cage and the key of the lock was delivered to the doorman and collected at the end of the shift.
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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 unloading floor at the top of the shaft...
After the mining of the raw coal underground it was loaded in underground train wagons which were transported by trains to the shaft below.
The powerful elevator machine hoisted the wheight of 50 tons from the bottom of the mine to the unloading floor at a speed of 75 km per hour.
On the unloading floor, the wagons were turned over and the raw coal was transported by conveyer belts to the coal washing plant for futher processing.
After emptying the train wagons they were automaticly driven back into the shaft by rail at the other side.
In this way, 50 tons of raw coal was brought to the surface every two minutes.
In the middle behind the steel bumpers is the open shaft mouth with a depth of 750 meters.
It is easy to see that the shaft towers were gigantic steel collosi, and in the space surrounding it was a hellish noise of throbbing iron and heavy clouds of coal dust.
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Feierabend
Es ist das größte Bergbaumuseum der Welt und zugleich Forschungsinstitut für Montanarchäologie und Archäometrie sowie Dokumentationszentrum und Archiv im Bereich der Montangeschichte.
quitting time
It is the largest mining museum in the world and at the same time a research institute for mining archeology and archaeometry as well as a documentation center and archive in the field of mining history.
Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo was once an industrial and mining town, and the chimneys of the old industrial zone are still one of the town's most notable features.
The arrangements of the open cast buildings.
On the left you can see the two colossal 60-meters-high shaft towers and in front of these the two buildings in which the enormous elevator machines were placed.
The first shaft tower is the so-called "peripheral shaft" with which, in addition to the transport of the mined coal and materials, the poluted used air and the mining gas were removed to the outside air.
The rear tower is the so-called "retracking shaft" with which in addition to the mined coal, also the transport of miners and fresh air took place.
Underground a system of airlocks ensured that the airflow from the peripheral- en retracking shafts were kept separate.
The unloading floor is located between the legs of the rear shaft tower. After the unloading of the undergound train lorries the coal was transportated to the coal washing plant at the right side, where the coal became separated from stones.
In the middle is the building of the power plant located.
On the fair right side are the huge concrete coal bunkers from which the coal wagons were filled on the underlying train track.
At it's peak the South Wales Coalfied was producing coal worth around £7,000,000,000 a year at current prices - I can't help wondering where did all the money go ?
After the miners putting on their work uniforms, the miners headed trough shadowy desolate corridors to the shaft, that brought them to the coal front to a depth of 750 meters.
These corridors were covered with a dirty layer of coal dust, so all the dust was pulled up and down trough the shaft mouths which were in open communication with the aboveground buildings. The miners saw the last daylight in these corridors The buildings and spaces around the shafts were filthy and dusty and could not compared to the impeccability of, for example, the compressor room.
But before we go down, we take a look from the outside of the arrangement of the buidlings of the above-ground mining company, so this will be all clear.
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Superior, Arizona
SB-800 speedlight on a short boom, focused, held above and slightly left of the camera, fired remotely.
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Old Dominion Mine Park
Globe, Arizona
Bare, focused SB-800 strobe, off-camera on a short boom, aimed down.
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Built by U.S. Coke and Coal in the 1920's, the Lamp House served the miners of Portal 31 in Lynch, Ky. Each miner began and ended his shift through the Lamp House where the cap lights were kept and maintained.
From my camping trip last month: the old mining town of Animas Forks above Silverton, CO is preserved and maintained by several historic organizations. The town is a kind of self-guided historic tour of mining in the last century in Colorado.
Osterfeld Schacht 8 (Nordschacht) Wetterschacht Oberhausen 09.1989.
Tagesanlagen 2007 komplett abgerissen.
Germany, ruhrarea
Visite guidée dans les galeries de la mine de fer "Walert", exploitée de 1891 à 1963 (jusqu'en 1981 pour les parties à ciel ouvert)
Visite guidée dans les galeries de la mine de fer "Walert", exploitée de 1891 à 1963 (jusqu'en 1981 pour les parties à ciel ouvert)
En route vers la sortie !
Holland 3/4/6 Schacht 4 Bochum-Wattenscheid 06.1989.
Bis auf Maschinenhaus Schacht 6 und Fördergerüst Schacht 4 alles abgerissen.
Germany, ruhrarea
Visite guidée dans les galeries de la mine de fer "Walert", exploitée de 1891 à 1963 (jusqu'en 1981 pour les parties à ciel ouvert)
Les "gueules jaunes" vous remercient de votre attention !
Radbod 1/2/5 Hamm 13.05.1990
Dort stehen noch die Fördergerüste Schächte 1 und 2 (mit Schachthallen und Fördermaschinenhäusern, die restauriert werden) und Fördergerüst Schacht 5.
Germany, ruhrarea
Visite guidée dans les galeries de la mine de fer "Walert", exploitée de 1891 à 1963 (jusqu'en 1981 pour les parties à ciel ouvert)
Camion de transport d'explosifs
E la locomotiva sembrava fosse un mostro strano
che l'uomo dominava con il pensiero e con la mano:
ruggendo si lasciava indietro distanze che sembravano infinite,
sembrava avesse dentro un potere tremendo,
la stessa forza della dinamite,
la stessa forza della dinamite,
la stessa forza della dinamite...
Nordstern 1/2 Gelsenkirchen-Horst 14.09.1991.
1855 Konsolidierung der Grubenfelder Blücher I-III in der Gemarkung Horst nördlich der Emscher.
1858 Teufbeginn Schacht Blücher 1.
1860 gestundet wegen Insolvenz.
1866 neu formiert als Steinkohlenbergwerk Nordstern.
1868 mit Malakowturm als Nordstern 1 in Förderung.
1890-92 Teufe Schacht 2.
1951-53 Grunderneuerung der Tagesanlagen unter Fritz Schupp.
Schacht 1 vollwandiges Strebengerüst mit Doppel-Gestellförderung.
Schacht 2 Förderturm mit Zweiseil-Turmförderanlage und Gefäß- (Skip) förderung.
1982 Verbundbergwerk Nordstern-Zollverein. Förderung über Zollverein 12.
Nordstern 1/2 als Zwischenförderschächte, Schacht 1 weiterhin Seilfahrt.
1986 Stilllegung Nordstern-Zollverein.
Danach Schächte 1/2 zu Bergwerk Consolidation bis 1993.
Danach abgeworfen un verfüllt.
Große Teile der Tagesanlagen wurden als Industriedenkmal erhalten.
Als Nordsternpark Teil der Route Industriekultur..
Aufbereitung (Wäsche), Fördermaschinenhaus Schacht 1, Zentralmaschinen(Kessel)haus (teil)abgerissen.
Schachthalle, Verladung nach Umbau neue Nutzung als Bürogebäude.
Förderturm Schacht 2 wurde als Sockel für einen Horst mit Keule zweckentfremdet.
germany, ruhrarea
Superior, Arizpma
SB-800 speedlight on a short boom, focused, held above and slightly right of the camera, fired remotely.
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Visite guidée dans les galeries de la mine de fer "Walert", exploitée de 1891 à 1963 (jusqu'en 1981 pour les parties à ciel ouvert)
Purgeuse pour galerie de mine (sert à enlever les morceaux de roche susceptibles de tomber) - Mine gallery purger (used to remove pieces of rock likely to fall)
Ewald Fortsetzung 2/1/3 Schacht 2 Oer-Erkenschwick Kreis Recklinghausen 23.05.1989
Alles bis auf Fördergerüst und Schachthalle Schacht 3 abgerissen.
Germany, ruhrarea
Etwas lebendiges, grünes vor dem Tor zum Werksgeleände. Das ist immer ein schöner Gedanke. Ich vermute ja, dass diese Baum sich dort vor Jahren selbst angesiedelt hat - und da das Werksgelände hinter dem Tor mehr eine Brache ist, wird wohl niemand die Lore von jäten. Sieht irgendwie witzig aus und viel besser als eine leere Lore. Mit der Lore passiert das, was so vielen planierten Industrieflächen passiert: Sie wird von der Natur in Beschlag genommen. (1/1000, f/6.3, 27mm, ISO200)
Visite guidée dans les galeries de la mine de fer "Walert", exploitée de 1891 à 1963 (jusqu'en 1981 pour les parties à ciel ouvert)
Purgeuse pour galerie de mine (sert à enlever les morceaux de roche susceptibles de tomber) - Mine gallery purger (used to remove pieces of rock likely to fall)
Usage avec télécommande - Use with remote control