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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.
The area is part of the Rhenish Lignite Mining Area (German: Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier ), and the Hambach surface mine is the largest open pit mine in Germany, as of 2018. RWE AG has owned the land since the 1960s or earlier and held an official permit to clear forests in the area since the 1970s. The company repeatedly argued that Hambach ...
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 ...
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 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.
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)