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Vy-lès-Lure Coal Mines
The coal mines of Vy-lès-Lure are a Mining, mining extraction site in eastern France, located in Haute-Saône, in the hamlet of Grange du Vau between the communes of Vy-lès-Lure and Mollans. The site experienced two periods of activity: the first between 1826 and 1905, following the granting of a concession in 1842; and the second during the 1940s by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Bureau of Geological and Geophysical Research (BRGG). The Haute-Saône Keuperian coalfield, Keuper coal was primarily used to power boilers employed in concentrating brine at , particularly at Coal mines and saltworks of Gouhenans, Gouhenans, which owned the Vy-lès-Lure concession between 1879 and 1925. Remnants of this activity (mine entrances, Spoil tip, spoil heaps, and a Company town, mining village) still exist in the early 21st century. Location The concession covered an area of 973 hectares, primarily distributed across the communes of Vy-lès-Lure and Mollans, but also ...
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Vy-lès-Lure
Vy-lès-Lure (, literally ''Vy near Lure'') is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Coal mines were operated in the village until the early-to-mid-to-late 1940s. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Saône department The following is a list of the 536 communes in the French department of Haute-Saône. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Haute-Saône {{Lure-geo-stub ...
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