Sainte Marie Coal Mine

Sainte-Marie coal mine
Headframe topped by a hoist tower
Sainte-Marie coal mine in 1920
Location
Sainte-Marie coal mine is located in France
Sainte-Marie coal mine
Sainte-Marie coal mine
LocationHaute-Saône
communeFranche-Comté
CountryFrance
Coordinates47°42′10″N 6°37′47″E / 47.702855°N 6.629740°E / 47.702855; 6.629740[1]
Production
Productscoal
Greatest depth359 metres
History
Opened1864
Closed1958
Owner
CompanyHouillères de Ronchamp, Électricité de France
Sainte Marie coal mine in 2012

The Sainte Marie Coal Mine is one of the major Ronchamp coal mines, located in Bourlémont (Ronchamp, Haute-Saône), in eastern France. It was worked intermittently between 1866 and 1958, then finally closed. The concrete headframe was reinforced in 1924 by Charles Tournay. This Liège engineer and architect specialized in constructing concrete headframes. On 29 March 2001, the headframe was listed as a French national monument historique.[2]

  1. ^ "Puits Sainte-Marie". BRGM.
  2. ^ Base Mérimée: IA70000154, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) et Base Mérimée: PA70000053, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)