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Abandoned slate quarry

Chaussée de France 6, 6840 Neufchâteau, Belgium

A 6-minute field recording by Vincent Duseigne made in Arlon, Belgium on 9 June 2018, in the morning. Soundscape: trams, metros & buses, construction & industry and caves, tunnels & underground.

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Abandoned slate quarry
6:00CC BY 3.0by Vincent DuseigneInternet Archive
6:00
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Recordist's notes

How to explain this sound ?! It's quite complicate. We are in an underground slate quarry. It's a dead end tunnel. In aim to extract the bad rocks, miners drill into the stone. They make a long drilling, diameter 3 cm, lenght 4 meters. At the end of the drilling, they put some explosive. Here, it's a drilling. As it was the end of the quarry (bankruptcy), they didn't explode the rocks. So, the long drilling remains, as this, since a century. Inside the stone, there's a spring. Water is following a strange way inside the fracking. This is the sound of the water inside the drilling.

Written by Vincent Duseigne on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Arlon is a town of about 26,179 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 58 field recordings from here.

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