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Brown coal opencast mining - Related Files

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	Brown coal opencast working, Germany 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
	Garzweiler brown coal opencast pit Garzweiler brown coal opencast pit near Cologne, Germany		07/24/2005	778
	Powerplant Fortuna 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
	Soby brown coal mine 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
	Huge brown coal digger overlay Huge brown coal digger in a German brown coal mine.		08/11/2005	659
	Coal mining shaft tower Mining shaft of the former coal mine "Consolidation" in Gelsenkirchen (Germany). The mine is closed because it´s unprofitable to keep it open but the mining shaft is still standing.		07/26/2007	394
	Cerrejon Coal Mine Cerrejón is the world's largest export open pit coal mining operation. Coal production capacity is estimated in 22 million metric tons per year. Open pit mining is an operation that starts with the cleaning of the surface and the careful withdrawal of the topsoil layer, which is stored for future rehabilitation of the involved lands.		03/15/2007	899
	Ghost town Otzenrath 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
	Brown coal mine, Germany - overlay Overlay of a German brown coal mine.		08/11/2005	645
	Opencast Mining Cape Town An open-cast mine just outside Cape Town, in the Durbanville hills area.		09/23/2005	469
	Open pit mining in Germany The three huge open pit coal mining sites of Inden, Heimbach and Garzweiler in western Germany, including the power plants of Weisweiler, Neurath and Frimmersdorf and placemarks for all mammut bucket chain excavators.		03/31/2006	622
	Bagger 288 The Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator. More specifically, it is a mobile strip mining machine. When completed, Bagger 288 replaced the Space Shuttle Crawler-Transporter as largest tracked vehicle in the world. It was built for the job of mining coal in Hambach, Germany. It can excavate 240,000 ton...		04/30/2006	786