Title

Closed collieries

Caption

Closed collieries, colliery ruins, and coal dumps dominated the image of the Ruhr area in 1965 and 1966, Germany, Europe

Date

1970

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/klaus Rose

Reference

BRK22H73_422

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

86,2Mb (1,6Mb) / 25,4in x 13,2in / 7606 x 3962 (300dpi)

Keywords

Business Central Europe Coal dump Coal dumps Environmentally harmful Europe Europe's FRG Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia German German Federal Republic Germany Middle Europe NRW No People North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia Republic of Germany Ruhr Ruhr area Ruhr district Ruhr region Ruhrgebiet Ruined building abandoned attle heap break break-off breaks closed coal mining colliery decayed decommissionin demolish demolition demolition area demolition areas demolition ground demolition site derelict deserted deteriorated dilapidated disused ecocide ecocides ecological damage economies economy electricity supply empty energies energy energy industry energy production energy source energy sources energy supply environment environmental contamination environmental damage environmental damages environmental destruction environmental issue environmental issues environmental pollution environmental pollutions excavation material excavation materials former formerly harmful to the environment historic historical industrial industries industry marooned material materials mine mine dump mines mining natural resource no one nobody old out of service out-of-service overburden polluting pollution pollution of the environment power generation power generations power industries power industry power supplies power supply ramshackle raw material raw materials ruin ruins run-down rundown shut down slag heap stockpile stockpiles tailings pile tear down tearing down uninhabited Raw material extraction coal coals fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel