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 | This is the danish lignite or brown coal mine of Soby opened 1939 and lasted till 1970. The mine was 4000 acres big and over 2000 people worked here.
Today it's a museum with housings, a shop but also the equipment used to dig the coal.
The mine was also used as movie location for the danish Morten Korch movie "Vagabonderne paa Bakkegaarden" from 1958. | 10/02/2007 | 284 | 



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 | This powerplant in Niederaussem west of Cologne is a new one that replaced the old brown coal plant. South west you see the remains of the old brown coal briquette factory and their brown coal mines. |  | 02/28/2006 | 385 | 



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 | Here you see two (in the north a third one) brown coal opencast workings. They wander to the north. Several villages have been destroid and rebuild on other places. |  | 10/10/2005 | 479 | 



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 | Huge brown coal digger in a German brown coal mine. |  | 08/11/2005 | 659 | 
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 | Overlay of a German brown coal mine. |  | 08/11/2005 | 645 | 
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 | Garzweiler brown coal opencast pit near Cologne, Germany |  | 07/24/2005 | 778 | 



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 | near Frechen / Germany |  | 08/02/2005 | 384 | 



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 | near Spremberg (Brandenburg), Germany
http://www.rbb-online.de/_/abendschau/ausflugtipps_jsp/key=rbb_beitragex_2567402.html |  | 08/03/2005 | 440 | 



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 | Loy Yang Power Station is a brown coal fired power station located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south eastern Victoria, Australia. Loy Yang is a base load supply station, and produces about one third of Victoria's electricity requirements.
Four giant bucket-wheel excavators operate 24 hours a day in the Loy Lang open cut mine, feeding coal directly to the boilers... |  | 10/04/2007 | 506 | 



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 | The (hard) coal mine “Colliery Prosper Haniel” in Bottrop, Ruhr Area has got four locations:
The mines Prosper IV and Prosper V in Kirchhellen (a part of Bottrop), the biggest one: Haniel, near Oberhausen and Prosper II, an abandoned pit near the Coke plant “Prosper”. Here is only coal dressing, the Training and a Monument called „Malakow-Turm”.
The colliery's important data: 4.19... |  | 11/22/2005 | 410 | 



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 | The Brown Palace Hotel, Denver CO, USA - built by J.J. Brown, husband of the Unsinkable Molly Brown. |  | 08/24/2005 | 228 | 



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 | Otzenrath is a city soon to be gone because of the Ganzweiler II brown coal mine on the other side if the highway A44. It all began 1999 and latest 2007 all residents has to be moved to Neu-Otzenrath or any other place.
The mining is moing westwards and on the map you can see what and when the next city is gone. |  | 09/20/2006 | 278 | 



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