Tag / slag heap
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A view from the slag heap
Charleroi – 2019, April 21 (ISO 100, f5.6 @ 36mm, 1/320sec., 20:01)
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Little genesis
Ostrava, Czech Republic – 2017, July 15 (ISO 100, f11 @ 35mm, 1/125sec., 15:53)
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Corporate landscapes #3
The sheer size of this slag heap is amazing. It is 250m high, 1100m long and 700m wide and contains 150 million tons of salt. And this is only what you see. The mine which is feeding this man-made mountain covers an area of 312 km². As you can imagine such a massive venture is not without consequences for the environment. With every rainfall salt will be washed out and…
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Corporate landscapes #2
This is an image of the opposite direction of my previous uploaded. The main building here and there is an analytical laboratory of one of the biggest potash mines in the world. The mountain in the back is the slag heap of the mine. (ISO 100, f8 @ 30mm, 1/500sec., 14:12)
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Tell the clouds to leave me alone
(ISO 100, f8 @ 120mm, 1/500sec., 14:20) This is the slag heap of a potash mine. I don’t know what they will put on the billboard when it is finished but they will have plenty of things to say to the environment which is heavily contaminated by salt.
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Völklingen Ironworks, view from the charging platform
(ISO 100, f8 @ 30mm, 1/125sec., 14:21) I am standing on the charging platform here approx. 27m above the ground and we are looking towards one of the three slag heaps of the ironworks. The slag mountains are locally called “Hostenbacher Alps” and reach a height of 90 to 130m. Interestingly the heat inside these slag heaps might have contributed to the development of a great variety of lichens. Scientific…
