Eric A. MeyerI’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.
Jimmy Thomas 
@Meyerweb Where does all that earth go? Wild.
TRANSit BIke nerd@jimmy @Meyerweb The landscape in the Rhine valley is extremely flat, open fields after open fields.
But suddenly you see a lonely hill, kilometers long, it's almost reassuring to see something standing out.
But the hill is weird, it's almost geometric, and it's sides lack any sort of erosion channel, the top is extremely regular.
Suddenly I understood : that huge hill standing out in the plain is next to the mine. It's the rejected soil that stood above the coil, rejected and piled on the side.
But suddenly you see a lonely hill, kilometers long, it's almost reassuring to see something standing out.
But the hill is weird, it's almost geometric, and it's sides lack any sort of erosion channel, the top is extremely regular.
Suddenly I understood : that huge hill standing out in the plain is next to the mine. It's the rejected soil that stood above the coil, rejected and piled on the side.
Benedikt@jimmy @Meyerweb they made a little mountain (about 300 meters tall) beside the hole. It’s called Sophienhöhe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophienh%C3%B6he)