Further luck mine
| Further luck mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | up to approx. 3150 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | approx. 10 | ||
| Start of operation | 1837 | ||
| End of operation | 1927 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 24 '2.1 " N , 7 ° 15' 7" E | ||
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| Location | Buchholz | ||
| local community | Witten | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The mine Fernerglück is a former hard coal mine in Witten- Buchholz. The mine has been shut down and reopened several times during its existence.
Mining history
On August 18, 1785, the approval for the mine field was introduced. On November 30, 1829 took place award of a length field . The colliery was put into operation in September 1837 , an old shaft and a tunnel were cleared. The mine was closed for the first time on December 12, 1840, as the seam was not worth working. In 1871 it was put back into operation , a tunnel was set up west of the Pleßbach in the middle Hammertal. In 1875 the mine was closed again.
Mining was carried out intermittently around 1900 , up until this point the main seam had only been mined to a length of a few hundred meters. In 1901 the mine was closed again. On October 1, 1922, the mine was put back into operation with a tunnel. In 1924 the mining started and from August of the same year the mine was decommissioned. From October 1925 the mine was put back into operation. In the period from February 28 to July 15, 1926, the mine was again out of order. On June 15, 1927, the Fernerglück colliery was finally shut down.
Promotion and workforce
The first production figures come from the year 1840, there were 181⅛ Prussian tons of hard coal mined. The first workforce dates from 1872, when there were four miners working on the mine. In 1874 801 tons of hard coal were mined. In 1922 two miners were employed on the mine, two years later seven miners extracted 1,071 tons of hard coal. The last known production and workforce figures for the mine are from 1926, when 3153 tons of hard coal were extracted with twelve 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 .