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ADVENTDALEN, NORWAY (AP) – Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a tunnel miles-deep into an Arctic mountain, Geir Strand reflected on the impact of their coal mine’s impending closure. “It’s true coal is polluting, but… they should have a solution before they close us down,” Strand said […]

For more than 100 years, people came to the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to work in coal mines

ADVENTDALEN, Norway -- Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a tunnel miles-deep into an Arctic mountain, Geir Strand reflected on the impact of their coal mines impending closure.

Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a tunnel miles-deep into an Arctic mountain, Geir Strand reflected on the impact of their coal mines impending closure.

ADVENTDALEN, Norway (AP) -- Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a tunnel miles-deep into an Arctic mountain, Geir Strand

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/norways-last-arctic-miners-struggle-with-coal-mines-end/"></div>ADVENTDALEN, Norway (AP) — Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a tunnel miles-deep into an Arctic mountain, Geir Strand reflected on the impact of their coal mine’s impending closure. “It’s true coal is polluting, but … they should have a solution before they close us down,” Strand [&hel...

An archipelago that was affected by two world wars and where many thousands of very different people have lived for more than five centuries

The marine center will serve some of the cruise vessels, which now sail to Longyearbyen