Online catalogue of coal waste heaps

Fire Risk Assessment and Monitoring of Post-Mining Spoil Heaps in Europe

Potentially thermally active
Coal heap (contains coal remains)
39.27 ha
233.7 m height
unknown - 1964 Period
Layers

Heap status
Inactive
Reclamation
Reclamation project

Thermal activity status
Potentially thermally active

NABU. Salber, D. (1987). The Aachen Mining District: 150 Years of Hard-Coal Mining on the Wurm and Inde. Aachen: Schweers+Wall. District Government of Cologne. Digital Terrain Model (DGM1m) [online]. https://www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de/geobasis-nrw/produkte-und-dienste/hoehenmodelle/digitale-gelaendemodelle/digitales-gelaendemodell Online source. Available at: https://www.nabu-aachen-land.de/bergehalden-im-aachener-revier Online source. Available at: http://gessen.de/bergbau/halden/annahalde.html Online source. Available at: https://www.bund-nrw.de/themen/klima-energie/im-fokus/steinkohle-ewigkeitslasten/brennende-bergbauhalden/
Information data quality: Medium – Historical documents without recent verification, secondary literature, satellite imagery analysis, expert estimates, third-party databases, older measurements
Geometric data accuracy: High – GPS/GNSS field survey (RTK/PPK), drone survey, LiDAR scanning, cadastral survey, total station