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The Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier, often called the Rhenish mining area, is a lignite mining area or district in the Cologne Bay, on the northwestern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The mining of lignite using the open pit method has had a significant impact on the landscape here and led to the formation of several important industrial sites.
This was accompanied by the resettlement of local villages and towns and the largest forest area in the region, the Hambach Forest, was largely cleared. On 17 January 1984, the first brown coal was mined. Hambach is the largest open-pit mine in Germany, with an area of 3,389 hectares (as of 2007), with an approved maximum size of 8,500 hectares.
Mining was originally limited to the 66 km 2 (25 sq mi) Garzweiler I area located east of the A 44 motorway. Mining in the 48 km 2 (19 sq mi) Garzweiler II area started in 2006 and is estimated to take until around 2045 to fully exploit both sectors. The lignite is used for power generation at nearby power plants such as Neurath [3] and ...
Lignite mining, western North Dakota, US (c. 1945). Lignite is brownish-black in color and has a carbon content of 60–70 percent on a dry ash-free basis. However, its inherent moisture content is sometimes as high as 75 percent [1] and its ash content ranges from 6–19 percent, compared with 6–12 percent for bituminous coal. [5]
Lützerath (German pronunciation: [ˈlʏt͜səʁaːt] ⓘ) was a hamlet in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, between Aachen and Düsseldorf. [2] In 2013, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of the expansion of the Garzweiler surface mine; in January 2023, Lützerath was eradicated to make way for the opencast mining of Garzweiler II ; it will eventually be replaced with ...
The Lusatian Lake District and its surrounding area Section of the chain of lakes. The Lusatian Lake District [1] [2] [3] (German: Lausitzer Seenland, Lower Sorbian: Łužyska jazorina, Upper Sorbian: Łužiska jězorina) is a chain of artificial lakes under construction in Germany across the north-eastern part of Saxony and the southern part of Brandenburg.
The natural region of Siegerland (not to be confused with the historic Siegerland) lies entirely within North Rhine-Westphalia: → see also section: Mountains in the article on Siegerland (natural region) Alte Burg (633.0 m), county of Siegen-Wittgenstein, (NW) Lipper Nürr (616.9 m), county of Altenkirchen (RP), county of Siegen-Wittgenstein (NW)
The Rhenish Massif, [1] Rhine Massif [2] or Rhenish Uplands [3] (German: Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, pronounced [ˈʁaɪnɪʃəs ˈʃiːfɐɡəˌbɪʁɡə] ⓘ: 'Rhenish Slate Uplands') is a geologic massif in western Germany, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France.