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Mouth of the Former Barbara Slate Mine

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Mouth of the Former Barbara Slate Mine

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    July 17, 2023

    This is the mouth of the former Barbara slate pit in Trimbs.
    The Barbara mine belonged to Salomon Oppenheim in 1890.
    The Oppenheim mines Hasenloch in Hausen, Barbara in Trimbs and four other mines in Mayen were combined in 1893 to form the Moselschiefergesellschaft mbH.

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      November 28, 2021

      A legacy of what was once the largest and most famous slate mining area west of the Rhine ...

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        July 29, 2023

        It is easy to imagine that this old slate pit now serves as a winter quarters for bats.

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          Location: Trimbs, Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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