Mining photos of RWTH Aachen !

Excursions of the University of Aachen !

The pictures on this and the two following pages have been sent to me by Jan Bruensing. He is student at the University of Aachen (Germany) at the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Petroleum and Coal, please click here in order to get to the department's website.

The photos have been taken during excursions of the department and they demonstrate how interesting the studies of this area can be. Maybe I can catch the interest of the one or the other of you for these studies after looking at the pictures and visiting the department's website.

Please click on the photos' small versions in order to enlarge them and to get the corresponding background information. ATTENTION: The pictures' explanations can now be found UNDER the large versions.


In the Flandersbach quarry.	A blasting in the quarry.	Large lorries for the transportation in the quarry.	The group in front of one of the large lorries.


The lorry is carrying tons of rocks.	The students are looking at the limestone.	A lake in the Grube Rodenhaus quarry.	A set of drill-rods.


The quarry's processing plant.	The machines make a lot of noise.	In the quarry the strata are clearly visible.	The strata as a close-up.


Interesting geological structures.	A saddle in a rockface.	In a quarry in the Southern Ruhr area.	A smooth rockface of sandstone.


Fossils in a rockface in the Ruhr area.	Petrified horsetail near Witten in the Ruhr area.	Once again a total view.	A seam can be found in the quarry.


The Sarnsbaenkscken seam.	Lateron the Sachtleben mine was visited.	Before going underground: Checking the filter.	The Baryt can be seen under-ground.


Baryt.	The students took photos of all interesting areas.	Sometimes there is water in a mine...	Underground in the Sauerland.


The mine was examined very exactly.	Cross-country vehicles are used underground.	Experienced miners explained the mine.	A lot of Baryt in the mine in Dreislar.