Bogdanka Photographed by Tomasz Hens
Thursday, 2010-01-28
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Successes and development of Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A. are described more and more often by national and foreign media. It is sufficient to mention publications in only a few selected dailies: Rzeczpospospolita, Puls Biznesu, Polska The Times or Parkiet. Those who wish to write about Bogdanka are growing in number which we are pleased to notice. In January 2010 the Wirtualna Polska portal published an interesting photo material entitled “Black diamonds of the Lublin region", prepared by Tomasz Hens.
Below we present those interesting photographs, bringing at least a bit closer the nature of a miner’s work…
The original form and content of the reportage can be viewed at the portal WWW.WP.PL under the address http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/gid,11874027,title,Czarny-diament-Lubelszczyzny,galeria.html
Captions:
first line (from the left):
1. Securing gallery casing. Bogdanka is the safest Polish mine.
2. POZ.960 or 960 metres underground. Lift shaft in the background.
3. Telephone communication underground. My guide, Andrzej Sobieszek, the chief foreman. An oxygen respirator, mandatory for everybody. Just in case …
4. One of the galleries. If one walked 16 kilometres daily, going through the galleries in Bogdanka would take 13 days.
5. Green light. A train will pass here in a minute.
6. This corridor contains pumps draining off water from the mine.
7. Miners replacing the gallery casing.
second line (from the left):
1. Loading rocks to trolleys.
2. In some places humidity reaches nearly 100%. Literally hell.
3. Disassembly of a mechanical coal miner.
4. For various reasons in many places tracks are not led. A cableway suspended on a rail under the gallery roof proves to be an excellent means of transport for people and goods.
5. The closer to the extraction site, the hotter.
6. We are in a mechanical coal miner. Air is nearly black from dust. From the right: feeding cables, supports above us, transmission belt on the left and coal deposit.
7. Header crunching coal deposit. The mine in Bogdanka is able to extract more coal from one of its walls than some Silesian mines from all of theirs.
third line (from the left):
1. One of miners working at a mechanical coal miner.
2. One of the galleries. Cables feeding a mechanical coal miner are led in this corridor.
Photographs and descriptions by Tomasz Hens Publication: WP.PL
