Thank you to Bent for showing us all the coal mine in Svalbard. This was very interesting! Only a handful of people have ever seen the mine and what an amazing way to immortalize it before it closes for good. Cecilia you have single handedly put Svalbard on the map in so many ways (at least for this generation). So many things none of us would ever get to see and appreciate. ❤️
Mine 3 closed years ago, but has been repurposed as a tourist attraction. You can do a tour and even crawl down a shaft in the overalls provided, should you wish. Definitely worth a visit if you get to Svalbard.
I was going to comment but Holly you've said it so well ! Thank you Cecilia for sharing this incredible tour with us!! xoxo Cella & Sugar ~ all the way from cold and snowy NE Wisconsin ;-)
This was so interesting. Thank you for taking us there. What is wild to me is that a guy like Bent born and raised in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, working down a mine, speaks incredible English. There are plenty of English people who couldn’t have explained all of that as eloquently as him in their own language. You Scandis have an amazing education system.
Wow! Big respect to those men in Longyearbyen and all over the world who labor in mines in cramped, dark conditions under the earth. May God bless them & keep them safe 😊
Hey Cecilia, i just have to say i LOVE the variety of your content. The cozy vlogs, cooking with Christoffer, going on trips. But especially everything that you show us about Svalbard. You watch the world with such a positive sparkle and i‘m more than happy to continue watching your new upload every sunday, just like I did the last years. 😊🤎
This freaked me out. I get claustrophobic watching. I couldn’t watch most of it, just listened to audio. There isn’t much in life that causes me to feel this way but being trapped and not able to get oxygen does it! There is no way I could do this - God bless these workers who do this everyday.
I had to do the same thing plus walk around my house as I was listening to it. My husband built this house as an open house before they became popular because he knew I was claustrophobic
I don’t usually comment on videos but I had to say how interesting and informative this video was! Thanks so much for showing this to us and thank you to your friend and all the miners for allowing you access to somewhere most people don’t get to see!
Thank you for cataloging this very important part of Longyearbyen's history! Fascinating! A bit claustrophobic, so it required patience for me to watch. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, GIRL! YOU ARE FEARLESS!!!!❤
@@CeciliaBlomdahlwonderful video! Very informative to see! Now that the mine will have no more usable coal and shuts down what are the minors like Bent doing after its done? Are there more jobs of this nature or in trades there for these men?
While watching this very brave visit into the depths of the earth, I feel very deep gratitude for those who do this every single day. What an enlightening view of a world that we seldom see.
Shout out to the Coal Miners. They are doing work only made for a few tough and brave people. I love how you highlighted their hard work. I love your channel so much!
A claustrophobics nightmare fuel! Absolutely fascinating to see this. The employees of this mine are incredible as it is important and dangerous work. Thank you to you both and to the employees for allowing us an inside glimpse!
Yes! I have to control myself in an MRI machine. I'm getting clausty watching this, but epecially when the cart goes under a dip in the ceiling. I've had actual claustrophobic nightmares.
My late father worked in the coal mines in West Virginia (US) as a young man. It was not for him. He became a mechanic, and he forbade my brother and I to work in the mines. It's a tough life. Thank you to the men around the world who dig coal.
Thank you Cecilia! My grandfather, who past away last year, used to work at a mine in Spitsbergen (he was from Soviet Union), and I found a few photos he took of the mountains. My grandmother also said that he used to bring her dried wildflowers after spring. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for all you share, because it makes me feel connected to him :)
So THAT's why! I keep comparing your community to the one my son lives in, Red Lake Ontario Canada. It's a semi remote gold mining and natural research community of about the same population as Svalbard. Your community looks modern, well kept, and the "touristy" offerings are small but really attractive. My son's town looks aging, the housing stock is mainly multiply renovated 1950s and 60s buildings, and the town has lots of messy corners I associate with northern mining towns. (You have some too, but even your messes are tidy!) Your grocery store was surprisingly big and well stocked, unlike Red Lake's poky building and more limited stock. Both town have some of the same features, the boom and bust of mining, costs of shipping remotely, the isolation... The difference is who has control of the mine, and who invests in the town. The role of your government has completely changed the picture, so that your lifestyle is much closer to your country's mainstream. Canada and Norway have some political similarities, but Norway has made some decisions about quality of life that sets you apart. Thank you for this mining story, it answered a real puzzle!!
Thank you so much for this! My bf has worked in a copper mine here in AZ for 19 yrs. He's currently working in the labs, big I've never been able to actually understand the whole process so this really opened my eyes!
I have such a deep respect for the people who work in mines( anykind). This mine has safety procedures and technology. How many people work in sub-standard conditions just to keep out a living. This was enlightening. Thank you .
It must be rare to find someone born and raised in Svalbard considering the policy of sending people to the mainland. Edit: the miner interviewed said he was born on the sland for those who keep posting 'you can't be born on the island'
@ubiquitousdiabolus ...watch the video?? The miner who took us down the mine was born and raised in Svalbard and he's easily in his mid to late-fifties.
@@21ineska the miner who they interviewed was born on the island, he was born before the rule of sending mothers to the mainland came into effect. which is why I said "it must be rare to meet one" ... because they did meet one... lol
We need to get our of our own bubbles. There are so many iives that go essentially unchanged by political cycles, but are yet everyday suffering from poverty, loneliness, and other difficulties. Look to work you can do on your local level, it makes a much greater difference than just watching and worrying.
@ I agree. No use in worrying about things out of our control. But I am referring to the culture here, outside of the election and politics. I live in a major city so I use this channel as an escape since I am not able to just pack up and move.
This has been THE most interesting video I have ever had the pleasure of watching. Thank you Cecilia and all those who allowed us to have this experience by taking us right into the mine and the the explanation of everything was so interesting and so well presented. What an awesome experience.
Wow! Much respect to Bent, his team, you, and Christopher for bringing the important history of Svalbard mining to light! You guys are GOATs!! 🥰❤💜💖👐💪👏🥰😍😘❤💜💖
As others have commented, this video is next level! Thank you for sharing this rare glimpse into the coal mining industry in Svalbard. I live in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 where there a long and tragic history of coal mining.
OMGosh I love all your videos Cecilia but, this is one of the best you’ve done! I really love to see all kinds of different types of work and have never seen mining before. I can’t believe how much machinery is in there! Thank Bent for all the information, that was a great tour!
Wow! Highest respect for the miners working this type of job. Thank goodness there are still people that are willing to do this type of work. I think most of the world is not aware of these brave people. Another excellent video.
What an amazing video!! My father and both of my grandpas were underground coal miners in KY! It is a hard and dangerous job! I give my respect to the men that work long dangerous hours underground! May God protect them!
It is so sad video for me. They are truly heroes. So catastrophic and dark place to work. So hard to believe they do this job still today. They all deserve to respect.
Thank you so much for documenting this mine!!!! This was amazing to see how the mining is conducted!!!! God bless all of the miners past and present. I cannot thank you enough for this video!!!! AMAZING!!!! 10 hours a day blows my mind. The miners are so brave!!!!!
Wow, so amazing! My husband worked in an (underground) Potash Mine for 39 years, so I can relate to this video. I toured his mine almost every year he was there. I have the utmost respect for miners! Coal mining is different than Potash mining. For one, the ceiling height is much lower in a coal mine! I don't think I could handle working in a place I can't stand up. Thanks Cecilia for this video!! God Bless these brave & hard working coal miners!!
Such a scary, claustrophobic work environment. It makes you respect miners SO much. My grandfather was an immigrant from Slovenia to the US and was a coal miner here in south/central Illinois. Such hard, dangerous work that he stressed to my dad that college was mandatory. My grandfather was not going to let my dad be a miner, and my dad did go to college on sports scholarships because they were so poor. My dad obtained his PH.D . Ironically I now live in a small community where our school mascot is The Miners! Coal mines in many small towns in our area back in the day...all closed down years ago. Great video!
Wow, just amazing how these people work. I sometimes complain about hard work and so on, but this is truly out of this world. These people have one of the hardest jobs one could ever have. Thank you for the video Cecilia!
Not only entertaining but fascinating and educational. Learned so much about Longyearbyen’s history. Thank you to Bent for allowing you to film so we could see this other part of this world. Already fascinated with your location but a coal mine in the Arctic is another level baffling. Also blown away when he said at 17:12 that the coals could be palm trees before turning into coal! 😮 Thank you so much Cecilia for doing this video. ❤
This was so interesting. Living in Cornwall, UK 🇬🇧, mining history is pretty much everywhere. I visited a tin and copper mine that originally closed in 1998 but is in the process of reopening. Seeing the difference between the types of geology and the extraction processes was great. (Tin and copper mines don't have so much black dust, but they can be very wet!) Thank you for posting x
Thank you to all the coal miners throughout the world. So many of us have grandfathers and other family who mined and dealt with such danger. Thank you Cecilia, Christoffer and Bent for bringing us this fascinating blog.❤
Cecilia - I purchased your book off Amazon and it’s just come in. Oh my GOODNESS, I’ve been enjoying every single page! What a gorgeous book, full of stories and wonders. Truly loving every second of it!❤
Fascinating! My dad's forebears were coal miners who came to New Zealand from the UK, Channel Islands and Switzerland to mine. Some of his forebears were gold miners too. After the Pike River disaster here in New Zealand in 2009 where 29 miners lost their lives the risks involved in coal mining can't be overstated. Thank you for this, Cecilia. Absolutely fascinating.
Amazing video!! Such respect for the men in those mines & kudos to you for giving them a platform for people to learn their daily work & how much they are needed!
Thank you for sharing the “not so glamorous” parts of life on Svalbard. I love learning about all the different aspects of life there! Oh! I almost forgot! I bought your book, it’s beautiful! 💙
@@bainbridge568 "Low coal" in West Virginia refers to mining conditions that are less favorable, resulting in lower yields and higher costs per ton. In low coal mines, there is little room for error. In parts of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, miners work in small groups through portals that are less than 40 inches high to access seams that are just over 2 feet thick. This type of mining has become a family tradition for some miners.
This is a job I could not do. Major respect for that crew, plus Cecilia and Christoffer. As Bent said, "This job is not for everyone." Some of the camera angles must have been a real challenge, also. I started watching and couldn't stop. Just an amazing video.
Thank you for showing this. It was very interesting to learn all of this. I have always loved the beautiful scenery where you are, now you are showing us underground. Loved this.
Fascinating! Much gratitude to Ben for sharing his knowledge and experience of the mine with us! Many thanks to Cecilia and Christoffer for putting together this great video! ☀️ Greetings to Everybody from Canada! 🇨🇦
I love your content, Cecelia and there is no way I could go into the mountain the way you and Christopher did!! And Ben and all the the stalwart miners! I salute the brave people of Longyearbyen and of Svalbard. Truly amazing!
Fascinating overview of the Longyearbyen few tourists, and even the locals, ever see. I was in Longyearbyen in 2023 and knew of Gruva #7 but never imagine the enormity of the operation. The brief history of Sveagruva was also nicely done and deserving of a video unto itself. It was hard to believe that people could live so far north in a place so far removed from the outside world. My hats off to the hardy souls who work in an underground world of cold and darkness. It's a shame that these folks will lose the only job some of them ever knew.
I did my university project on the power station in Longyearbyen. The managers allowed my friend and I access. The power station has to increase power every time the tunnel boring machine is used which we saw in real time. The power station also had an issue while we were there meaning everyone had to be evacuated in a cloud in smoke! A great day out and the project scored us top marks!
Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU! Please thank Bent Jakobsen for taking us on a tour of the coal mine! This was definitely a huge surprise from your normal Sunday content Cecilia! Not only did you give us the wide view of the situation, you took the time to focus in on the small details of what coal looks like and why the mine is closing. You're really getting good at this! I have so many questions though! Of the current 2500 permanent residence living in Longyearbyn, how many will be leaving once the mine closes because their jobs have come to an end? When your friend, I believe you said his name is Ollie, his two week shift is over, does he live and stay on Svalbard or does he fly back to mainland Norway to have his days off? Looking around Svalbard at all of the abandon mining sites, will Longyearbyn be able to survive as a community with just the educational facility, the ESA satellite station and the fair weather tourist industry once the coal mine closes?
Many thanks to you two and to Bent for this experience. I have always been curious about mining and the safety of the miners. Enjoyed this video so much!
My father was in mines all over the US Worked for the US Bureau of mines then it became the CDC NIOSH and worked in the dust lab. Would have lots of stories about cutting low coal , the continuous miner , self rescuers, riding to the face and stories about roof collapses. Scary hard work.
10 hour shift with only 1 hour brake, wow thats hard labour. I’ve always wanted to see inside a working mine and thanks to you Cecilia and the powers at be, now I’ve seen it. Scary watching let alone being there. Thank you for sharing this incredible experience ❤
Very interesting video. 40 or 50 years ago no one understand the consequenses of burning coal for energy. Today we do. My mind is in overdrive now trying to figure out how coal was formed in the Artic many years ago. Cecilia thank you for sharing life in Svalbard with us. I a previous video the seed vault was also an experience for me. Keep up with the videos!
Wow! What and an amazing peace of film work, thank you for documenting this! It's not often that these people working in heavy industry are shown to the world. Without the hard work they perform, often in harsh conditions, many things that are now taken for granted would simply not exist.
This is the best explanation of coal mining I’ve ever seen. My great great grandfather did coal mining in West Virginia after he came to America from Ireland. I didn’t know him and I’m sure the conditions at that time were way worse than what they are for these guys but it’s very cool to see the process here. Thank you very much! ❤
Martha. My husband's grandfather and his mom came in 1925 from Italy too. They went through Ellis island. She was 18 months old when they arrived. His grandfather worked in Pennsylvania and West Virginia as a miner. My hubby has his old pic ax and shovel he used. Sadly, he died of black lung! ) :
Cecelia, All of your videos are interesting but this one was truly fascinating! Kudos to those who work these jobs! It was incredible to see the mine and how it functions! Thank you for taking us along! Stay well!!!
Very fascinating indeed! What will happen to the men's jobs when the mine closes, where will they go? Bent was quite the gentleman and I appreciated the tour.
As someone who works in a coal mine in Australia, my mine has many similarities! You have made an excellent and accurate summary here, perfect for non miners to understand. Well done 😊
Wow - I was not expecting a trip down into the working mine! I was completely riveted for the all too quickly over video. Being from Kentucky, I'm familiar with coal mining, and how things are done in the that mine was fascinating to me. I wondered why the mine was closing. Toward the end, he explained that it is just about mined out. I guess that's why Longyearbyen also switched to diesel - because the local coal is almost done. (Plus apparently this seam is only used in manufacturing applications). Your information and editing skills on this one remind me of your book. So interesting, clear and educational! Tusen takk!
This was really fascinating! I've watched you talk about the mines for the past few years, and to actually take a working tour was very educational. That job is not for the weak or the timid for sure.
This is so interesting! Growing up in the 60’s in Scotland we always used coal for our fires, I remember them dumping it at the side of the house, in those days all the streets were grey with coal dust.
I admire Cecilia's enthusiasm for things out of my nightmares, like going kilometres underground or staying in a wilderness cabin covered in spikes surrounded by polar bears (love this channel, I watch everything)
That was so cool and interesting! Thank you for sharing that with us. I for one have never known anything about mining and to now have even a sliver of knowledge is quite exciting! You looked like you were having the best time ever!
Thankyou for showing us this, so intressing. My grandfather starts to work at 12 years old in Boliden mine in Sweden. It's amazing to see. Love this videos.😊❤
So interesting! Total respect and admiration for the coal workers!!! How rare to be born on Svalbard! Really, kind of an honor! I really admire coal miner workers!
Wow, my claustrophobia wouldn’t like that job, well done to everyone doing this. It seems like a well organised and safe company running the operation.
EXCELLENT! Really great video of what it is really like…..I worked for a coal company in Colorado, USA. Have been in coal mines in Colorado AND West Virginia, USA. What you are showing is the real deal. People generally have no idea what miners deal with every day. I was a Human Resources Manager in late 70s and early 1980s and was the first WOMAN in one of the West Virginia mines. What an experience. Kudos to you for going underground to see the tough conditions experienced by miners.
This is so fascinating. My great grandfather was a coal miner starting early in childhood until he retired (and eventually passed away from black lung disease). My grandfather and his sisters were born and raised in company-owned housing in the small coal mining town in western Pennsylvania where their father worked and where most of my family still lives; though the housing is no longer owned by the mining company and most if not all of the mines have been closed. It's fascinating to hear the history of your little coal mining village in the arctic and compare it to the history/infrastructure of our coal mining towns here in the US.
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Thank you to Bent for showing us all the coal mine in Svalbard. This was very interesting! Only a handful of people have ever seen the mine and what an amazing way to immortalize it before it closes for good. Cecilia you have single handedly put Svalbard on the map in so many ways (at least for this generation). So many things none of us would ever get to see and appreciate. ❤️
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Mine 3 closed years ago, but has been repurposed as a tourist attraction. You can do a tour and even crawl down a shaft in the overalls provided, should you wish. Definitely worth a visit if you get to Svalbard.
I was going to comment but Holly you've said it so well ! Thank you Cecilia for sharing this incredible tour with us!! xoxo Cella & Sugar ~ all the way from cold and snowy NE Wisconsin ;-)
I think Bent was having some fun with you going so fast on your way back out. What a good sport you are!
@sybilkent4913 i wonder what everyone will do when the mine closes ? Do people have other jobs on svalbard that they can still work and make money?
This was so interesting. Thank you for taking us there. What is wild to me is that a guy like Bent born and raised in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, working down a mine, speaks incredible English. There are plenty of English people who couldn’t have explained all of that as eloquently as him in their own language. You Scandis have an amazing education system.
I'm Serbian and most of us speak 6 languages, we are fluent in English also even my parents.
@@Lilly-hh9es Seriously impressive.
I thought about the same thing!
Wow! Big respect to those men in Longyearbyen and all over the world who labor in mines in cramped, dark conditions under the earth. May God bless them & keep them safe 😊
Yes, huge respect!!
Hats off to the miners. They are amazing.
Cecilia- this is an award- winning video. I felt like I was in the mine with you ! Awesome! We learn so much from you.
Agreed
Hey Cecilia, i just have to say i LOVE the variety of your content. The cozy vlogs, cooking with Christoffer, going on trips. But especially everything that you show us about Svalbard. You watch the world with such a positive sparkle and i‘m more than happy to continue watching your new upload every sunday, just like I did the last years. 😊🤎
This freaked me out. I get claustrophobic watching. I couldn’t watch most of it, just listened to audio. There isn’t much in life that causes me to feel this way but being trapped and not able to get oxygen does it! There is no way I could do this - God bless these workers who do this everyday.
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I had to do the same thing plus walk around my house as I was listening to it. My husband built this house as an open house before they became popular because he knew I was claustrophobic
Same
Yup. I am not as bad as some, but I don't like this.
Same here, interesting but stressed me out😂
I don’t usually comment on videos but I had to say how interesting and informative this video was! Thanks so much for showing this to us and thank you to your friend and all the miners for allowing you access to somewhere most people don’t get to see!
Thank you for taking us along, Cecilia, before this historic mine closes in 2025.
Wow! Yes, huge thank you to Bent and the coal mine for allowing you both to go and film. It was fascinating!
Thank you for cataloging this very important part of Longyearbyen's history! Fascinating! A bit claustrophobic, so it required patience for me to watch. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, GIRL! YOU ARE FEARLESS!!!!❤
Aw thanks, I appreciate that! 😊
Her zest for living is unmatched
@@CeciliaBlomdahlwonderful video! Very informative to see! Now that the mine will have no more usable coal and shuts down what are the minors like Bent doing after its done? Are there more jobs of this nature or in trades there for these men?
While watching this very brave visit into the depths of the earth, I feel very deep gratitude for those who do this every single day. What an enlightening view of a world that we seldom see.
Shout out to the Coal Miners. They are doing work only made for a few tough and brave people.
I love how you highlighted their hard work.
I love your channel so much!
Just saw the article about you on CNN! How exciting, we get to share you with the world now! Love you guys!!!
It is wonderful that they allowed you to capture this for historical reference!
This was fascinating and should be submitted for an award!! You are a genius Cecilia!!
This isn’t the only documentary!
A claustrophobics nightmare fuel! Absolutely fascinating to see this. The employees of this mine are incredible as it is important and dangerous work. Thank you to you both and to the employees for allowing us an inside glimpse!
Yes! I have to control myself in an MRI machine. I'm getting clausty watching this, but epecially when the cart goes under a dip in the ceiling. I've had actual claustrophobic nightmares.
@@SBCBears Same 😬😉
Watching Cecilia is so relaxing and makes me feel more positive after a video. This one was a bit hard for me toobut so interesting!
I can't sleep in a tent that I can't stand up in. I'm sure the ceiling is lowering itself during the night trying to reduce my air supply.
My late father worked in the coal mines in West Virginia (US) as a young man. It was not for him. He became a mechanic, and he forbade my brother and I to work in the mines. It's a tough life. Thank you to the men around the world who dig coal.
My grandfather worked in a mine in Illinois, but it wasn't for him, either. He became a machinist, too.
Hey former wv miner here to
Thank you Cecilia! My grandfather, who past away last year, used to work at a mine in Spitsbergen (he was from Soviet Union), and I found a few photos he took of the mountains. My grandmother also said that he used to bring her dried wildflowers after spring.
Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for all you share, because it makes me feel connected to him :)
How many mines does the russians have left in Barentsburg, do you know?
Thank you for sharing your grandfather’s story with us. Precious personal memories we to which we can all relate.
My grandfather was a coal miner and I have a whole new respect for the work he did.
Sunday morning with Cecilia and coffee = Perfection! ☕️🏔️❄️🫶🏽
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So THAT's why! I keep comparing your community to the one my son lives in, Red Lake Ontario Canada. It's a semi remote gold mining and natural research community of about the same population as Svalbard. Your community looks modern, well kept, and the "touristy" offerings are small but really attractive. My son's town looks aging, the housing stock is mainly multiply renovated 1950s and 60s buildings, and the town has lots of messy corners I associate with northern mining towns. (You have some too, but even your messes are tidy!) Your grocery store was surprisingly big and well stocked, unlike Red Lake's poky building and more limited stock. Both town have some of the same features, the boom and bust of mining, costs of shipping remotely, the isolation... The difference is who has control of the mine, and who invests in the town. The role of your government has completely changed the picture, so that your lifestyle is much closer to your country's mainstream. Canada and Norway have some political similarities, but Norway has made some decisions about quality of life that sets you apart. Thank you for this mining story, it answered a real puzzle!!
Fun fact - my parents met while both working in a coal mine in Kentucky. Very hard and dangerous job! Great to shed light on it.
No way!! Wow, that is so cool! Such a dangerous job!
My great uncle worked in a coal mine in Earlington, KY. Several relatives did that kind of work.
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Thank you so much for this! My bf has worked in a copper mine here in AZ for 19 yrs. He's currently working in the labs, big I've never been able to actually understand the whole process so this really opened my eyes!
Am I the only ducking down on the couch watching Cecelia and Christopher riding the little cart down the mine? 😂 Again what an amazing video!
I didn’t duck, but my stomach has not been right since 😂
Same here 👀 and I even was afraid I was going to get my head hurt in the ceiling lol 🙈
Yes with saying omg!! wtf!! No way!! 😂
I found myself sliding down in my recliner😂
I have such a deep respect for the people who work in mines( anykind). This mine has safety procedures and technology. How many people work in sub-standard conditions just to keep out a living. This was enlightening. Thank you .
It must be rare to find someone born and raised in Svalbard considering the policy of sending people to the mainland.
Edit: the miner interviewed said he was born on the sland for those who keep posting 'you can't be born on the island'
Nobody is born on Svalbard. She mentioned in previous videos that you have to go to the mainland to gave birth
@ubiquitousdiabolus ...watch the video?? The miner who took us down the mine was born and raised in Svalbard and he's easily in his mid to late-fifties.
@@21ineska the miner who they interviewed was born on the island, he was born before the rule of sending mothers to the mainland came into effect. which is why I said "it must be rare to meet one" ... because they did meet one... lol
@@21ineska but he was born there before the airport was built. Go back and watch this video again.
@@21ineska They can't now, but he was born before that was put into place. He explained it in the video.
Your channel is an escape from the dystopian episode I wake up in everyday in the US 🫶🏼
I’m from SoCal & I hear you. Hopefully this nightmare will be over soon.
I am in CT, it is nerve wracking at this point.
We need to get our of our own bubbles. There are so many iives that go essentially unchanged by political cycles, but are yet everyday suffering from poverty, loneliness, and other difficulties. Look to work you can do on your local level, it makes a much greater difference than just watching and worrying.
@@sroman127yesss! Awful and crazy we have to worry! ) :
@ I agree. No use in worrying about things out of our control. But I am referring to the culture here, outside of the election and politics. I live in a major city so I use this channel as an escape since I am not able to just pack up and move.
This has been THE most interesting video I have ever had the pleasure of watching. Thank you Cecilia and all those who allowed us to have this experience by taking us right into the mine and the the explanation of everything was so interesting and so well presented. What an awesome experience.
I feel exactly the same! Cecilia knocked it out-of-the-PARK!
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Wow! Much respect to Bent, his team, you, and Christopher for bringing the important history of Svalbard mining to light! You guys are GOATs!! 🥰❤💜💖👐💪👏🥰😍😘❤💜💖
As others have commented, this video is next level! Thank you for sharing this rare glimpse into the coal mining industry in Svalbard. I live in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 where there a long and tragic history of coal mining.
One of the most interesting videos you've ever done on your channel! Wow! Thank you!
OMGosh I love all your videos Cecilia but, this is one of the best you’ve done! I really love to see all kinds of different types of work and have never seen mining before. I can’t believe how much machinery is in there! Thank Bent for all the information, that was a great tour!
Thank you so much! 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻
What a great adventure! Cecilia never stops to surprise me 😍😍
This is one of your best documentary vids yet, a good mix of entertainment and education.
Wow, great video as per usual! It's like watching National Geographic! Much love from Brooklyn ❤❤
That’s so kind of you to say, I’m so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Wow! Highest respect for the miners working this type of job. Thank goodness there are still people that are willing to do this type of work. I think most of the world is not aware of these brave people. Another excellent video.
What an amazing video!! My father and both of my grandpas were underground coal miners in KY! It is a hard and dangerous job! I give my respect to the men that work long dangerous hours underground! May God protect them!
For those not from the United States KY is Kentucky
Thank you for showing us what it's like in the mine. My Uncles and ancestors were miners in England and I can only imagine how it was like for them. ❤
This is INCREDIBLE ! Thank you to you both and Ben for the visit and for taking us along.
It is so sad video for me. They are truly heroes. So catastrophic and dark place to work. So hard to believe they do this job still today. They all deserve to respect.
Thank you so much for documenting this mine!!!! This was amazing to see how the mining is conducted!!!! God bless all of the miners past and present. I cannot thank you enough for this video!!!! AMAZING!!!!
10 hours a day blows my mind. The miners are so brave!!!!!
Wow, so amazing! My husband worked in an (underground) Potash Mine for 39 years, so I can relate to this video. I toured his mine almost every year he was there. I have the utmost respect for miners! Coal mining is different than Potash mining. For one, the ceiling height is much lower in a coal mine! I don't think I could handle working in a place I can't stand up. Thanks Cecilia for this video!! God Bless these brave & hard working coal miners!!
That was so freaking COOL! Thank you for the opportunity to join on this unique adventure!
Such a scary, claustrophobic work environment. It makes you respect miners SO much. My grandfather was an immigrant from Slovenia to the US and was a coal miner here in south/central Illinois. Such hard, dangerous work that he stressed to my dad that college was mandatory. My grandfather was not going to let my dad be a miner, and my dad did go to college on sports scholarships because they were so poor. My dad obtained his PH.D . Ironically I now live in a small community where our school mascot is The Miners! Coal mines in many small towns in our area back in the day...all closed down years ago.
Great video!
Wow, just amazing how these people work. I sometimes complain about hard work and so on, but this is truly out of this world. These people have one of the hardest jobs one could ever have. Thank you for the video Cecilia!
Not only entertaining but fascinating and educational. Learned so much about Longyearbyen’s history. Thank you to Bent for allowing you to film so we could see this other part of this world. Already fascinated with your location but a coal mine in the Arctic is another level baffling. Also blown away when he said at 17:12 that the coals could be palm trees before turning into coal! 😮 Thank you so much Cecilia for doing this video. ❤
This was so interesting. Living in Cornwall, UK 🇬🇧, mining history is pretty much everywhere. I visited a tin and copper mine that originally closed in 1998 but is in the process of reopening. Seeing the difference between the types of geology and the extraction processes was great. (Tin and copper mines don't have so much black dust, but they can be very wet!)
Thank you for posting x
Thank you to all the coal miners throughout the world. So many of us have grandfathers and other family who mined and dealt with such danger. Thank you Cecilia, Christoffer and Bent for bringing us this fascinating blog.❤
Cecilia - I purchased your book off Amazon and it’s just come in. Oh my GOODNESS, I’ve been enjoying every single page! What a gorgeous book, full of stories and wonders. Truly loving every second of it!❤
Wow, thank you so so much!
Fascinating! My dad's forebears were coal miners who came to New Zealand from the UK, Channel Islands and Switzerland to mine. Some of his forebears were gold miners too.
After the Pike River disaster here in New Zealand in 2009 where 29 miners lost their lives the risks involved in coal mining can't be overstated. Thank you for this, Cecilia. Absolutely fascinating.
Its sunday... enough said... coffee in hand. Love my time with Cecilia, Grim and Kristopher ❤your channel
Amazing video!! Such respect for the men in those mines & kudos to you for giving them a platform for people to learn their daily work & how much they are needed!
Thank you for sharing the “not so glamorous” parts of life on Svalbard. I love learning about all the different aspects of life there!
Oh! I almost forgot! I bought your book, it’s beautiful! 💙
Wow thank youuu! 🙏🏻
Huge Respect for those Men doing this work !! 💪💪
This touches home. I live in West Virginia, USA, where 'low coal' is and has been for centuries mined.
What an education. Why is it called “low coal”? I’d like to learn. Thanks.
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"Low coal" in West Virginia refers to mining conditions that are less favorable, resulting in lower yields and higher costs per ton. In low coal mines, there is little room for error.
In parts of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, miners work in small groups through portals that are less than 40 inches high to access seams that are just over 2 feet thick. This type of mining has become a family tradition for some miners.
@ Thank you so much!🙏
This sounds exponentially more difficult. Thank goodness we have folks still willing to do this work.
I have worked in that low coal in wv
This is a job I could not do. Major respect for that crew, plus Cecilia and Christoffer. As Bent said, "This job is not for everyone." Some of the camera angles must have been a real challenge, also. I started watching and couldn't stop. Just an amazing video.
You and Christopher are so brave to enter this confined space. I would be carried out on a stretcher if I was there!
Thank you for showing this. It was very interesting to learn all of this. I have always loved the beautiful scenery where you are, now you are showing us underground. Loved this.
Fascinating! Much gratitude to Ben for sharing his knowledge and experience of the mine with us! Many thanks to
Cecilia and Christoffer for putting together this great video! ☀️ Greetings to Everybody from Canada! 🇨🇦
That was absolutely fascinating! Thank you so much for covering this in such a great way! Thanks to everyone in the mines as well!
I love your content, Cecelia and there is no way I could go into the mountain the way you and Christopher did!!
And Ben and all the the stalwart miners!
I salute the brave people of Longyearbyen and of Svalbard. Truly amazing!
Fascinating overview of the Longyearbyen few tourists, and even the locals, ever see. I was in Longyearbyen in 2023 and knew of Gruva #7 but never imagine the enormity of the operation. The brief history of Sveagruva was also nicely done and deserving of a video unto itself. It was hard to believe that people could live so far north in a place so far removed from the outside world. My hats off to the hardy souls who work in an underground world of cold and darkness. It's a shame that these folks will lose the only job some of them ever knew.
I did my university project on the power station in Longyearbyen. The managers allowed my friend and I access. The power station has to increase power every time the tunnel boring machine is used which we saw in real time. The power station also had an issue while we were there meaning everyone had to be evacuated in a cloud in smoke! A great day out and the project scored us top marks!
This was fascinating Cecilia, thank you for taking us with you, into the mine 💐
Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU! Please thank Bent Jakobsen for taking us on a tour of the coal mine! This was definitely a huge surprise from your normal Sunday content Cecilia! Not only did you give us the wide view of the situation, you took the time to focus in on the small details of what coal looks like and why the mine is closing. You're really getting good at this! I have so many questions though! Of the current 2500 permanent residence living in Longyearbyn, how many will be leaving once the mine closes because their jobs have come to an end? When your friend, I believe you said his name is Ollie, his two week shift is over, does he live and stay on Svalbard or does he fly back to mainland Norway to have his days off? Looking around Svalbard at all of the abandon mining sites, will Longyearbyn be able to survive as a community with just the educational facility, the ESA satellite station and the fair weather tourist industry once the coal mine closes?
Many thanks to you two and to Bent for this experience. I have always been curious about mining and the safety of the miners. Enjoyed this video so much!
My father was in mines all over the US Worked for the US Bureau of mines then it became the CDC NIOSH and worked in the dust lab. Would have lots of stories about cutting low coal , the continuous miner , self rescuers, riding to the face and stories about roof collapses. Scary hard work.
OMGosh! Fascinating. Thank you! Don’t know how the miners do it.
10 hour shift with only 1 hour brake, wow thats hard labour. I’ve always wanted to see inside a working mine and thanks to you Cecilia and the powers at be, now I’ve seen it. Scary watching let alone being there. Thank you for sharing this incredible experience ❤
Most coal mines are not that nice
my deepest respect to the miners, there's no way I could do this job! Thanks for taking us on this tour-super interesting!
I look forward to each of your new videos! You always surprise me with the quality and originality of your content.🌾🐶☺️
Very interesting video. 40 or 50 years ago no one understand the consequenses of burning coal for energy. Today we do. My mind is in overdrive now trying to figure out how coal was formed in the Artic many years ago. Cecilia thank you for sharing life in Svalbard with us. I a previous video the seed vault was also an experience for me. Keep up with the videos!
Wow! This was so fascinating! thank you so much for doing this and sharing and thank you to the mining folks as well! I absolutely love your channel!❤
Thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Wow! What and an amazing peace of film work, thank you for documenting this! It's not often that these people working in heavy industry are shown to the world. Without the hard work they perform, often in harsh conditions, many things that are now taken for granted would simply not exist.
I love that I always learn something watching your videos. Your life is truly an adventurous one!
That's so great to hear! 😊
Thank you for the nice tour in mine 7, it was very interesting indeed.
This is the best explanation of coal mining I’ve ever seen.
My great great grandfather did coal mining in West Virginia after he came to America from Ireland. I didn’t know him and I’m sure the conditions at that time were way worse than what they are for these guys but it’s very cool to see the process here.
Thank you very much! ❤
It was way worse I been there done that
My husband’s grandfather emigrated from Italy in 1919 to Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA. He was a proud Coal Miner. Arsenal of Democracy
I’m sure he ate his share of pepperoni rolls 😊. Thanks to him and many others for his dedication and hard work.
Martha. My husband's grandfather and his mom came in 1925 from Italy too. They went through Ellis island. She was 18 months old when they arrived.
His grandfather worked in Pennsylvania and West Virginia as a miner. My hubby has his old pic ax and shovel he used. Sadly, he died of black lung! ) :
Cecelia, All of your videos are interesting but this one was truly fascinating! Kudos to those who work these jobs! It was incredible to see the mine and how it functions! Thank you for taking us along! Stay well!!!
Very fascinating indeed! What will happen to the men's jobs when the mine closes, where will they go? Bent was quite the gentleman and I appreciated the tour.
They won't have a job and the town will die like they did here in wv
As someone who works in a coal mine in Australia, my mine has many similarities! You have made an excellent and accurate summary here, perfect for non miners to understand. Well done 😊
Wow - I was not expecting a trip down into the working mine! I was completely riveted for the all too quickly over video. Being from Kentucky, I'm familiar with coal mining, and how things are done in the that mine was fascinating to me. I wondered why the mine was closing. Toward the end, he explained that it is just about mined out. I guess that's why Longyearbyen also switched to diesel - because the local coal is almost done. (Plus apparently this seam is only used in manufacturing applications).
Your information and editing skills on this one remind me of your book. So interesting, clear and educational! Tusen takk!
This was really fascinating! I've watched you talk about the mines for the past few years, and to actually take a working tour was very educational. That job is not for the weak or the timid for sure.
This is so interesting! Growing up in the 60’s in Scotland we always used coal for our fires, I remember them dumping it at the side of the house, in those days all the streets were grey with coal dust.
I admire Cecilia's enthusiasm for things out of my nightmares, like going kilometres underground or staying in a wilderness cabin covered in spikes surrounded by polar bears (love this channel, I watch everything)
That was so cool and interesting! Thank you for sharing that with us.
I for one have never known anything about mining and to now have even a sliver of knowledge is quite exciting! You looked like you were having the best time ever!
I had a blast exploring the mine, I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! 😊
God bless all the workers! Thank you for this video. I would never have thought about mining for coal!
Fellow Swede here living in tropical Mexico! It's so exotic to watch your videos 😍
Thank you! I'm so happy you enjoy them😊
Thankyou for showing us this, so intressing. My grandfather starts to work at 12 years old in Boliden mine in Sweden. It's amazing to see. Love this videos.😊❤
This was fascinating, thank you for taking us along!
So interesting! Total respect and admiration for the coal workers!!! How rare to be born on Svalbard! Really, kind of an honor! I really admire coal miner workers!
Wow, my claustrophobia wouldn’t like that job, well done to everyone doing this. It seems like a well organised and safe company running the operation.
Fascinating and such respect for the miners. Thank you so much for taking us along.
Brilliant thank you for showing something 99% of us would never have seen before ❤️
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EXCELLENT! Really great video of what it is really like…..I worked for a coal company in Colorado, USA. Have been in coal mines in Colorado AND West Virginia, USA. What you are showing is the real deal. People generally have no idea what miners deal with every day. I was a Human Resources Manager in late 70s and early 1980s and was the first WOMAN in one of the West Virginia mines. What an experience. Kudos to you for going underground to see the tough conditions experienced by miners.
I worked with women in the mines in wv in the 70 s when it was a knew thing
I kept refreshing RUclips (even though all notifications are ON) when Cecilia’s video pops up 😅❤️
You're the best! I hope you enjoy it! 😊
This is so fascinating. My great grandfather was a coal miner starting early in childhood until he retired (and eventually passed away from black lung disease). My grandfather and his sisters were born and raised in company-owned housing in the small coal mining town in western Pennsylvania where their father worked and where most of my family still lives; though the housing is no longer owned by the mining company and most if not all of the mines have been closed. It's fascinating to hear the history of your little coal mining village in the arctic and compare it to the history/infrastructure of our coal mining towns here in the US.
This was such a cool video…thanks for taking us along with you 💙
This was a totally fascinating video. Learned a lot and how difficult and dangerous mining could be. Thanks so much for sharing!
This is a fascinating video! Thank you for sharing this with us.