mining

History: The German Ruhr valley is widely known for its heavy industry like steel and manufacturing. What laid central in this industry was the availability of coal stored deep underground. Coal mining became a common practice since the beginning of the 1800s, which kickstarted the German...

I came across this mining camp known as "Bonnie Claire" on a road trip in December of 2018. It has been abandoned for over 100 years so it is unsurprisingly badly deteriorated. The area is also contaminated with arsenic and cyanide, but of course that didn't stop me. A couple of the houses about...

Polyana, Djantukha and Akarmara - former mining settlements in Abkhazia, located in the Aldzga river valley, 10-12 km east of Tkuarchal. After collapse of the Soviet Union and Abkhaz–Georgian conflict it was almost abandoned.

A small abandoned mine in Belgium... 1. Gold mining 01 by Miaro Digital, auf Flickr 2. Gold mining 02 by Miaro Digital, auf Flickr 3. Gold mining 03 by Miaro Digital, auf Flickr 4. Gold mining 04 by Miaro Digital, auf Flickr 5. Gold mining 05 by Miaro Digital, auf Flickr 6...

Harworth Colliery is a mothballed coal mine in the Bassetlaw area of north Nottinghamshire. It has recently been abandoned due to troubles at the seam. History Work began on sinking the shaft in 1913, when the Northern Union Mining Company was set up. This was with an investment in German...