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Coal Mining

36 images Created 17 Aug 2017

Coal mine located near Longyearbyen, Svalbard

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  • Coal truck hauling a full load of coal between Mine #7 and Longyearbyen, Svalbard, where it’s burned for heat and electricity.
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  • Endalen, Spitsbergen
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  • Coal Mine #5, Endalen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard
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  • Coal Mine #5, Endalen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard
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  • Coal Mine #5, Endalen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard
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  • Funicular railline used to bring miners and materials to the mine head
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  • Endalen, Svalbard, 78 degrees North,  location of one of seven coal mines in the region, now all closed but one. The structures on the lower right are part  of a cableway used to transport coal to Longyearbyen, where it was used for fuel, or loaded on ships for transport to mainland Norway. On the hillside coal tailings spill down the hill, indicating the location of an exit to one of the mines under the mountain.
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  • Cableway used to transport coal, Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 2B, Nybyen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 2B, Nybyen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 2B, Nybyen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 2B, Nybyen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 2B, Nybyen, Spitsbergen
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  • Tailings from Mine 2B
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  • Climbing the moraine of the Larsbreen Glacier, Nybyen in the valley below and in center right a tailing pile from mine 2B.
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  • Mine 2B, Sarkofagen Mountain on right, and Larsbreen Glacier in between.
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  • Mine 5 in distance with line of Cableway Towers, Endalen, Spitsbergen
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  • Sverdruphamaren, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 1A on Sverdruphamaren
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  • Mine 6, Adventdalen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 6, Adventdalen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 6, Adventdalen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 6, Adventdalen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 6, Adventdalen, Spitsbergen
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  • Mine 6, Adventdalen, Spitsbergen
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  • Sverdrupbyen & Mine 1B
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  • Mine #4
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  • Mine #4
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  • Mine #3
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  • Mine #3
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  • Mine #3 and a thin coal seam running along the wall
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  • Mine #3, the original Global Seed Vault, used to store seeds from around the world.
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  • Mine #3
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  • Mine #3
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  • Map of Longyearbyen region, gray areas are cross sections of mountains showing the extent of the coal mining tunnels. Each mine has a network of mine shafts covering the footprint of the mountain, with multiple exits to fresh air.
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