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The city of Carbonia rose in a completely remote area in Sardinia in 1938. It wasn't easy to think of a more striking name: everything here revolved around the coal mine, the first thing you see when you drive into the city.
A deathly silence blows through the streets of the mining village of Asproni. Halfway through the twentieth century, the last resident closed the door behind him.
The neo-medieval preparation plant of Lamarmora is located on the seafront of Masua in Sardinia.
Tirso train station was once a critical rail junction from which you could travel to all corners of Sardinia. Now, it's a no man's land.
150 years of zinc processing have left their mark on Monteponi, Sardinia: the earth has turned red, and the hillsides are garnished with ruins of the Miniera di Monteponi.
For centuries, stonemasons knocked and drilled slates in the quarries of Wales, such as in Dinorwic. This was once the second-largest slate quarry in the world.
In Ressaix, you will still find some relics of railway line 241, which branched off from Leval station to the coal mines in Péronnes-lez-Binche.
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