Lorraine Coal basin

The Coal basin Lorraine is located at the North-East of the department of the the Moselle, and extends on a surface from 49.000 ha. It can be roughly speaking delimited by the triangle Villing - Faulquemont - Stiring-Wendel and gathers approximately seventy communes.

It draws its name from the economic activity which forged its unit with the carboniferous Lorraine coalfields. Geographically, it corresponds to the valley of the Rosselle. It is a Anticlinal hollowed out by erosion, called “buttonhole of the Warndt. ” It is in this geological formation that the coal is most accessible, which allowed the development of coal industry.

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  • mining wells of the Lorraine coal basin

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