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 | “Kokerei Prosper”, a coking plant in Bottrop, Ruhr Area is a part of the hard-coal mine “Prosper Haniel”.
2.000.000 tons per year hard-coal is feed for 146 coke-furnaces. They produce 75% Cokes and 25% of gas and other hydrocarbons.
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 | This is the old Silverwood Colliery near Rotherham.
Once held the record for 1 million tonnes of coal produced in a week. Closed down shortly after the miners strike in the 80's. |  | 03/15/2006 | 297 |
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 | You can see the shaft towers over the shafts 2,3 and 4 (f.l.t.r)
The huge white tower over shaft 4 is the hightes shaft tower in the world.
The colliery is closed since 2000 |  | 08/17/2005 | 387 |
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 | At approximately 9.15am on Friday 21st October 1966, Merthyr Vale colliery tip situated on the mountainside overlooking the village of Aberfan in South Wales, slipped and descended on Pantglas Junior School like an avalanche, destroying both the school and 20 nearby houses in its path, and rendering other houses in the vicinity unsafe for habitation. Half a million tonnes of coal waste ... |  | 03/27/2006 | 438 |
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 | The Causey Arch is a bridge near Stanley in County Durham. It is the world’s oldest surviving railway bridge.
It was built in 1725-26 by architect Ralph Wood, funded by a conglomeration of coal-owners known as the "Grand Allies" (founded by Colonel Liddell and the Hon. Charles Montague). Two tracks crossed the Arch — one to take coal to the River Tyne, and the other for the retur... |  | 08/02/2007 | 322 |
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