The Julia is a former coal mine in Eygelshoven. The mine was owned by the Belgian mining company Société des Charbonnages Réunis Laura et Vereeniging SA (Laura en Vereeniging).
The Julia was named after Joséphine Henriette Rosalie 'Julie' Mottin (1856-1908), the mine owner's wife
Albert Thys, who died in 1915. Construction of De Julia started in 1921 and the first coals surfaced in 1926.
At that time, De Julia was one of the most modern coal mines in Europe. In 1952 the existing concession was expanded with a coal field that was located under German soil.
This 264 hectare concession was named 'Vorwarts Erweiterung'. Mainly lean and ess coals were extracted here, the total production amounted to almost 32 million tons.
The Julia was closed on December 20, 1974, closing the second last coal mine in the Netherlands. The very last mine, the Oranje-Nassau I in Heerlen, followed a week and a half later, on December 31, 1974. Coal mining in the Netherlands had come to an end.
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