With its two headframes, water towers, bathing rooms, coal washeries and unloading floors, the Beringen coal mine is the most complete mining site in the Belgian coal region Limburg.
In a border village near the German–French frontier lies a slumbering industrial giant where, since the second half of the nineteenth century, coal was extracted on a massive scale.
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