Alb mine
| Alb mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | approx. 8000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | about 40 | ||
| Start of operation | 1952 | ||
| End of operation | 1954 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 24 ′ 55 " N , 7 ° 17 ′ 28" E | ||
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| Location | Vormholz | ||
| local community | Witten | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Alb mine was a small mine in the Vormholz district of Witten . The colliery went into operation on January 1, 1952, and was shut down just 25 months later, on January 31, 1954.
In the first year of operation, 43 miners extracted 4,506 tons of hard coal . Production rose to 8,124 tonnes in the following year. This almost twice as high production was achieved with only 16 miners.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr (= the blue books ). 3rd completely revised and expanded edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1990, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
Web links
- Mines in Hattingen, Bochum and Witten. ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 477 kB) (on January 16, 2016)