Sign with a symbolic bucket wheel excavator next to the A44 motorway near Hasselweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The so-called "tourist information board" points to the industrial-cultural attraction of the Rhenish lignite mining area, in which lignite is mined in opencast mines in huge pits.

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