Coal mine in Europe ?

[le vrai rdu]

Do you know any coal mine (or salt or phosphat etc) still working in Europe ?

(no I am no interested in a mine museum :bang

Thanks for your answer

 

[le vrai rdu]

western Europe would be nice

I hve heard there is one in wales wich has a strange name, but it is quite small

 

[jbielikowski]

Ruhrgebiet, Śląsk, whole regions, loads of mines.

 

[Joerg]

Hi

Kali & Salz (http://www.k-plus-s.com/en/home/) is running a lot of salt mines in Thueringen, Germany.The whole region is full of artificial mountains....

Ciao

joerg

 

[le vrai rdu]

Great, and not far from france

Too bad I am not germanophone but I will manage

 

[LeicaFoReVer]

There is a one I visited in Cardiff, UK.

 

[le vrai rdu]

Cardiff, nice, I speak english, safer to understand wahat people say

No R2D2, there is not anymore mine working in france, only some uranium mine that are ready to star again, in case we could not anymore import uranium

 

[ferider]

Here is one that will be active until 2012:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergwerk_Saar

Close to where I grew up, not too far from Alsace.

Roland.

 

[marnicq]

Maybe this will interest you, one of my teacher is in this project with some photographers, photographinh coal mines and people working/living at a coal mine all around the world (sorry for not being able to provide any locations)
http://www.coalface.be/

 

[sevo]

The last Sarre coal mine is to close in two years, and is near Saarluis, right next to the French border.

 

[le vrai rdu]

Great (but too bad they will close soon)

Anyway, I will write them , could be a kind of "memory portfolio"

Yes, should be fine

 

[le vrai rdu]

My plan is to go underground to see peolple working and upthere to see people living

 

[Michael Markey]

Wales is probably your best bet in the UK although there may be some small mines in the south.
Cornwall has old tin mines which extended under the sea but which all closed in the 19th C.

 

[Arjay]

My plan is to go underground to see peolple working and upthere to see people living

Don't forget to picture living conditions on the surface: There are quite a few mines in the Sarre region where the ground is moving because of collapsing undergeround cavities. You might be able to find quite a few houses with spectacular cracks, and people entering into lawsuits against mining companies because of this.

 

[Phantomas]

Haha! I'm not telling you! You've already got a super-cool project shooting fishermen at sea! C'mon now!

Naah, but seriously, the only coalmines I know is when I read about them crushing down killing people. Good idea though (you seem full of them). Good luck, must be very difficult shooting in that light.


(Oh yeah, I was in inactive coalmine somewhere in Catalunia a few weeks ago, but that's more like a museum. Took some shots with a Rolleiflex).

 

[le vrai rdu]

Yes, low light, will have to learn flash photography (I plan to buy a pentax 67 with leaf shutter lenses)

Looked at rena effendi portfolio on siberian mines, she used flash quite well

 

[helen.HH]

Wales for Sure....

 

[marnicq]

Yes, low light, will have to learn flash photography (I plan to buy a pentax 67 with leaf shutter lenses)

Looked at rena effendi portfolio on siberian mines, she used flash quite well

I heard it's not possible to shoot with a flash in a mine tho ... because of the batteries etc (so you probably aren't allowed to use a camera with batteries either)
It wouldn't be safe (for as far as I've heard, I might be wrong tho)

 

[le vrai rdu]

I heard it's not possible to shoot with a flash in a mine tho ... because of the batteries etc (so you probably aren't allowed to use a camera with batteries either)
It wouldn't be safe (for as far as I've heard, I might be wrong tho)

well, they use trucks (avec des système antideflagration certes) and lamps

but that is a question that should be asked

If it is allowed, I don't care to carry it

 

[le vrai rdu]

great

on the trawler i had no restrictions

I hope next time it will be the same