Ils ont trouvé un trésor à 600 mètres sous l'Alsace - Mines de Potasse d'Alsace

The Treasure Beneath Our Feet: The Story of Alsace's Pink Gold Beneath the Alsatian plain lies a 35-million-year-old treasure: pink salt, buried more than 600 meters underground, which transformed simple villages into vast mining towns. From Amélie Zürcher's unexpected discovery in 1904 to the closure of the last mine shaft in 2002, discover the breathtaking saga of Alsace's potash mines. A century of extraction, 567 million tons of ore brought to the surface, and an exceptional human community forged deep within the earth. Video Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:45 - The Geology of the Deposit 02:00 - The Pioneers: Amélie, Joseph, and Jean-Baptiste 04:00 - The Rush for Pink Gold 05:30 - Alsace Becomes French Again 07:00 - Mining Towns: A World Unto Itself 09:00 - The Miner's Daily Life 10:30 - The Occupation and the Disaster 11:30 - Peak Production 13:30 - The Shafts Are Extinguished One by One 15:30 - The Last Day 17:00 - What Remains: Memory Sources and Bibliography Official MDPA-Stocamine Website (mdpa-stocamine.org) The Rodolphe Pithead (carreau-rodolphe.com) Association for the Protection of Historical and Industrial Mining Heritage (apphim.fr) Museum of Mining and... Potash (Mulhouse) Yves Frey, Polish People of Alsace, Presses universitaires franc-comtoises, 2003 Roger Weissenberger, Chronicles of the Potash Mines of Alsace, Carré blanc, 2003 Géoconfluences ENS Lyon - The Alsatian Potash Basin Wikipedia - Potash Mines of Alsace, Amélie Zürcher, Joseph Vogt