Brown Coal Mining Inden - Conveyor

What’s being digged up must be carrried away, seemingly endless conveyor belts are used for the transport.

This scene reminds me somewhat of the movie Koyaanisqatsi, endless conveyor belts cutting through the landscape. Here at the edge only the upper stratum, plain earth, is being digged up, the brown coal strata lie deeper.

Brown Coal Mining Inden - Man and Machine

Even at some distance, the sheer monstrosity of the excavators is fascinating, but to quite some degree also terrifying.

A whole territory is being digged up here! A good overview of the open cast mining activities can be found at this web site.