Anyone on their way to the top of the Colline Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, to visit Le Corbusier's chapel will come across another concrete gem at the foot of the mountain: the headframe of the Puits Sainte-Marie coal mine.
The overgrown ruins and collapsed roofs of the French Arthur de Buyer coal mine do not suggest that a French record was broken here in 1900.
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In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.
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