Joseph Leder (L), aged 77, a retired iron ore miner at the Algrange mine, talks with his retired colleague Ernest Niessen in front of a wall fresco representing the work of iron miners next to their homes in Algrange near Florange, May 18, 2013. Leder who was 17 when he started his career in Algrange, retired in 1983 as a train driver at the mine at the age of 47 and still lives in Algrange in the house where he was born in 1936. Niessen who was 16 when he started his career at the mine in Algrange, retired in 1984 as a geometrician at the age of 53. The iron mines are parts of the forging and steel making tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region. Picture taken May 18, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRIAL TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A sign that reads "end of the visit " is seen at the U4 museum in Uckange near Florange, May 11, 2013. The Uckange U4 furnace, stopped in 1991 after a century of production was turned into a museum in October 2007 as a testimony of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region. With a level of more than 10 percent unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. After the 2009 closure of nearby Gandrange, an ArcelorMittal steelworks in the region, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steel making tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". Picture taken May 11, 2013 REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRIAL) 

A giant sign that reads SOS is seen in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary erected in 1903 and made of cast iron produced in a nearby blast furnace in Hayange, Eastern France, December 3, 2012. After the 2009 closure of the nearby Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". With a level of more than 10 percent unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. Picture taken December 3, 2012, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler/File (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

A view from a cemetery, seen in this file picture, shows the ArcelorMittal blast furnace in Hayange, Eastern France, February 20, 2012. After the 2009 closure of the nearby Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". With a level of more than 10 percent unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. Picture taken February 20, 2012 REUTERS/Vincent Kessler/File (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS RELIGION) 

Rusted chains are seen at the gate of one of the entrances of the Gandrange ArcelorMittal steelworks in Gandrange near Florange, May 19, 2013. After the 2009 closure of the Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". With a level of more than 10 percent unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. Picture taken May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRIAL) 

General view of the ArcelorMittal Florange-Hayange blast furnace in Hayange near Florange, Eastern France, May 12, 2013. After the 2009 closure of the nearby Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". With a level of more than 10 percent unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. Picture taken May 12, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

The slogan "No to the closing" is written on a wall near the Gandrange ArcelorMittal steelworks, closed in 2009, in Gandrange near Florange, May 19, 2013. After the 2009 closure of the Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". With a level of more than 10 percent unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. Picture taken May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRIAL) 

A man walks along a railroad track of the Hayange-Florange ArcelorMittal site in Hayange near Florange, May 12, 2013. After the 2009 closure of the nearby Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". With a level of more than 10 percent unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. Picture taken May 12, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRIAL) 

Two women walk with their children in the main street of Rosselange near Florange, May 12, 2013. After the 2009 closure of the nearby Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". With a level of more than 10 percent unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. Picture taken May 12, 2013 REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT) 

Anthony Valentini, aged 26, poses near a fire set up by workers on strike in front of the Florange ArcelorMittal plant in Florange, May 22, 2013. The son and grandson of metal workers, Anthony worked until March 2012 as an interim worker at the plant where his father still works. He is now unemployed since then and will now try to validate a qualification of solderer he hopes will help him to find a job. After the 2009 closure of the nearby Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal's decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steel making tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region, turning the valley into a "Museum Valley". With a level of more than 10 percents of unemployment, the Lorraine Region and its "Angel Valley" is one of France's most impacted area. Picture taken May 22, 2013 REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRIAL) 

Ernest Niessen, aged 82, a retired iron ore miner at the Algrange mine, and the son and grandson of mineworkers, looks at a book he wrote about the mine, next to his helmet and carbine lamp at his home in Algrange near Florange, May 18, 2013. Niessen who was 16 when he started is career at the mine in Algrange retired in 1984 as a geometrician at the age of 53, wrote one book about the life in the iron mines, parts of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the "Angel Valley" of the Lorraine region. Picture taken May 18, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRIAL)