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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 today consists of lignite seams up to 100 m thick. At 299 m below sea level, the deepest point of the Hambach open-pit mine forms the deepest artificial depression in North Rhine-Westphalia. [5] Since 1995, the giant bucket-wheel excavator Bagger 293 is used to remove the overburden. It holds several Guinness records for terrestrial vehicles.
The mine produced 3.2 million tonnes of lignite in 2018 for combustion in the neighboring Šoštanj Power Plant. The mine is Slovenia's only producing fossil fuel facility. [ 4 ] The power plant has an expected closure date of 2033 nonetheless the government hopes to close the plant between 2024 and 2029.
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]
Geiseltal open-cast mining area, mapped at the 2 m thickness limit of the lignite. The Geiseltal, a peripheral area of the Central German Lignite Mining Area, is located about 20 km south of Halle (Saale) and about 10 km southwest of Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt. It extends over a length of 15 km from west-northwest to east-southeast and over a ...
The remaining holes were filled with water to create multiple lakes with the biggest being the Großräschener lake, which was filled until 2018. [3] In January 2018 the water level reached 98.5 m above sea level. NHN. [3] The Großräschener lake is connected to the Sedlitzer lake via the Sorno Canal, which arose from the Sedlitz opencast mine.
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)
Ende Gelände 2018 were a series of events of a mass movement for climate justice in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Germany. The non-violent direct action civil disobedience events were targeted against coal-based power generation through RWE Power AG and demanded the "immediate fossil fuel phase-out " based on climate justice and climate ...