Thanks Harald Finster. please give me more details of the underground clay
mine near Neuwied Germany. I have worked at some underground mines in the
Westerwald area but production has mostly been suspended due to cost.
Abendtal at Eisenberg (Pfalz) near Kaiserslautern remains open. Klaus Dieter
Mayen's book Tongraber im Westerwald published in 1985 may be of interest to
you. There are connections with clay mines in Devon in that electric mining
machines made by Westphalia AG were imported for use at Kingsteignton in the
1970's and were still in use until recent closure of underground mines
there.
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