Slag Heap Collection

From the battlefields of Noeux-les-Mines, Northern France, during the First World War, to the industrial heartland of Wombwell, South Yorkshire in 1956

Slag Heap Collection: View of Kamenskii Cast Iron Smelting Factory [Kamensk-Uralskii], 1910

View of Kamenskii Cast Iron Smelting Factory [Kamensk-Uralskii], 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
View of Kamenskii Cast Iron Smelting Factory [Kamensk-Uralskii], 1910.

Slag Heap Collection: Factory in Kyn belonging to Count S.A. Stroganov (work was stopped), 1912

Factory in Kyn belonging to Count S.A. Stroganov (work was stopped), 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Factory in Kyn belonging to Count S.A. Stroganov (work was stopped), 1912.

Slag Heap Collection: Coal dumping machine, Ashtabula, Ohio, ca 1900. Creator: Unknown

Coal dumping machine, Ashtabula, Ohio, ca 1900. Creator: Unknown
Coal dumping machine, Ashtabula, Ohio, ca 1900

Slag Heap Collection: Les terrils de Sacré Madame, 1897. Creator: Maximilien Luce

Les terrils de Sacré Madame, 1897. Creator: Maximilien Luce
Les terrils de Sacre Madame, 1897. The slag heaps of Sacre Madame. Coal mine in the western suburbs of Charleroi

Slag Heap Collection: Noeux-les-Mines, Northern France, c1914-c1918

Noeux-les-Mines, Northern France, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Slag Heap Collection: Mitchell Main coal preparation plant, Wombwell, South Yorkshire, 1956

Mitchell Main coal preparation plant, Wombwell, South Yorkshire, 1956. A general view of the coke ovens area at the Mitchell Main plant

Slag Heap Collection: Diamond mine slag heaps

Diamond mine slag heaps. Diamond, the hardest known mineral, is a naturally occurring crystalline form of carbon that forms under great pressure

Slag Heap Collection: houses at Lamorna cove in Cornwall, UK overshadowed by boulders from an old quarry

houses at Lamorna cove in Cornwall, UK overshadowed by boulders from an old quarry
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Slag Heap Collection: A house at Lamorna cove in Cornwall, UK overshadowed by boulders from an old quarry

A house at Lamorna cove in Cornwall, UK overshadowed by boulders from an old quarry
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From the battlefields of Noeux-les-Mines, Northern France, during the First World War, to the industrial heartland of Wombwell, South Yorkshire in 1956, slag heaps have been a persistent reminder of humanity's relentless pursuit of natural resources. In Moonta, South Australia, on the Yorke Peninsula, the ghostly remains of former copper-mining boom town are marked by towering slag heaps. In the Ruhr Basin of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Bottrup's Tetraeder, a 50-meter high slag heap, stands as a testament to the region's coal mining history. In British Columbia, Canada, the Columbia River Basin in Trail sees trees replanted in front of slag heaps from the mining industry. Diamond mines in various locations around the world also produce vast slag heaps. And even in idyllic Lamorna Cove in Cornwall, UK, houses are overshadowed by boulders from an old quarry, reminding us that the legacy of extraction is ever-present.