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Mining

by zeljko heimer 13-APR-1996

It is green over black flag with two yellow crossed hammers in the middle. It is the flag of miners, I think used all over the world. At least here it is used by miners unions, as much as, by mining companies, it is hoisted in front of the mine entrances, and in front of the mining (and oil) companies, it is used during strikes and demonstrations and other pubic gathering of miners. I seem to recall seeing this flag on some news clips from former DDR, but also later in Germany, and in Poland.

The symbolic of the flag is more than obvious green ground and black coal (I think the coal was main thing that was excavated when the flag came in use), and hammers as typical mining tools was used as sign of miners probably even before.

Recently I have also seen versions that have golden oil drill in betveen the two hammers

zeljko heimer 13-APR-1996