Nation Bids Adieu to Its Last Coal Mine
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France closed the La Houve coal mine -- its last -- saying goodbye to a trade that endured for nearly three centuries and underpinned the Industrial Revolution.
One last and symbolic lump of coal was extracted in an evening ceremony at the mine in the northeastern town of Creutzwald, near the German border.
The coal industry once employed 300,000 people, but nuclear power now supplies 80% of France’s electricity.
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