The Charbonnage de Marcasse is a coal extraction mining site located in the Borinage in Wasmes (Sentier Saint-Ghislain) in the Walloon region of the province of Hainaut. It is mainly made up of the pit tile and a slag heap. Today, this coal mine owes its reputation to the fact that the painter Vincent Van Gogh went down there in the company of miners during his stay in Borinage between 1878 and 1880.
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The Charbonnage de Marcasse is a coal mine, consisting of the tile of the mine and the slag heap, located in Wasmes, in the Walloon Region in the province of Hainaut. The Marcasse coal mine is located on Sentier Saint-Ghislain

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Catastrophe de Marcasse on 13/01/1953. According to the testimony of the last survivor of Albert Campion in 2008 Twenty-one hours and dust... On January 13, 1953, a terrible gas explosion broke out at the Marcasse coal mine in Colfontaine. Seventeen are killed. Three others died of their injuries and burns. The last victim died on March 17 5 . Three Belgians, ten Italians, two Ukrainians and two Algerians were killed and nine injured, all between the ages of 25 and 30.

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3. Marcasse Coal Mine – Vincent Van Gogh House loop from Colfontaine

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