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Recordist's notes
lignite opencast Tagebau Hambach, one of the many water pipes for ground water removal around the pit. From Wikipedia: The Tagebau Hambach is a large open-pit mine (German: Tagebau) in Niederzier and Elsdorf, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite. Begun in 1978, the mine currently has a size of 33.89 km² and is planned to eventually have a size of 85 km². It is the deepest open pit mine with respect to sea level, where the ground of the pit is 293 metres (961 ft) below sea level. (Sony PCM D50)
About the place
Elsdorf is a town of about 21,967 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 6 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “opencast / Tagebau Hambach, near Elsdorf, Germany - water pipe, drainage” by udo noll – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0