In eastern Germany, enormous pits carved into the landscape by decades of lignite mining are being transformed into a vast network of lakes, wetlands and restored land. The Lusatian Lakeland, spread across Brandenburg and Saxony between Berlin and Dresden, is being created by flooding former open-cast mines and reshaping their surroundings.
Oh what’s this! A gold nugget! By the coal lakes!
… 3 months later; Germany is digging up old mines that have gold in them.