Soweto towers
The Orlando coal power station was decommissioned in 1998, after serving Johannesburg for over half a century. The plant’s two cooling towers are still a…
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Argentiera
The Argentiera mining village is an almost wholly abandoned mining village about 35 miles from Sassari (Sardinia, Italy). In its heyday, it had more than…
Kelly
It was 1866, and the area was Magdalena Mining District (New Mexico, USA), where J. S. Hutchason discovered some rich lead outcroppings and opened the…
Mount Lyell
Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was an Australian mining company formed on 29 March 1893, based in Queenstown, Tasmania. In the early 1890s, the…
Big Pit Blaenavon
Big Pit National Coal Museum is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Wales (United Kingdom). The Big Pit is part of a network of coal…