Ernest Niessen, 82, a retired iron mineworker at the Algrange mine and son and grandson of mineworkers,...
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)