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Germany is shutting down its coal industry for good, so far without sacking a single worker
Deep underground in Germany's Ruhr valley, Uwe Seeger plunges a drill into the black earth just as thousands of coal miners in this region have done before him.
“My grandpa did it like this, we used it like this to destroy the big stones,” he tells Foreign Correspondent.
- Eric Campbell
- ABC
Black coal mines like this one in Essen, which opened its first shaft in 1875, once fired the furnaces that made Germany the economic powerhouse of Europe.
But this is no longer a working mine — it’s a museum, set up by Mr Seeger and some other former miners to show tourists how life once was in…