Blue Gold / Black Diamond

The four UNESCO World Heritage mining sites (Grand-Hornu, Bois-du-Luc, Bois du Cazier et Blegny-Mine) organize a cycle of four exhibitions or events dedicated to the four elements: air, water, earth, fire. This unifying project, highlighted in a video, traces the classification's steps of the four sites on the Unesco list and their common actions. An original way of discovering several centuries of coal mining by surveying four exceptional heritage places.
Grand-Hornu and Bois-du-Luc opened the show in June 2019 with two exhibitions devoted to air and water respectively.
WATER, a symbol for Bois-du-Luc !
Bois-du-Luc was born to exploit coal and to solve the water problem. From the wooden conduits to the Newcomen pump, also known as the « fire engine », the coal mining engineers cunning with the water element, a source of life like a thousand problems in the mine galleries…
Blue Gold / Black Diamond presented in the enclosure of the Saint-Emmanuel pit, explores the close links of water and coal through four themes: water in the mine, water as a means of transport, water on the surface and water after the mine.
We hope we have already made your mouth water!