Coal, coal-dust & coal burning
It’s been some busy weeks. In our Arctic Environmental Management course, we first went to the abandoned Mine 3, had an interview with an unforeseeable incident at the power plant, counted reindeer faeces and tracks at -30° C and visited the Kongsberg facility KSAT up on Platåfjellet. Just for now, a little bit about coal: Monday, four weeks ago, we started with a lecture in coal mining with Malte Jochmann, a geologist specialised on coal facies. I thought it was quite an interesting lecture, as I couldn’t barely imagine how this work is carried out. The different mining techniques and approaches such as ‘longwall’ or ‘room and pillar’ mining and the amount of material that is used, amazed me. A visit to the museum-like mine 3 followed right after and again, it was quite impressive for me to see the machines and the infrastructure. Entrance and view from Gruve 3 Guillaume and I fooling around in our mining suits Malte Jochmann explaining us ...