sentences:  Quite early on, though, they sought to exploit mineral wealth.As in many places in the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France, there were also collieries in Bedesbach.Near the limit with Ulmet, as early as 1773, a substantial coal seam was discovered at the Hellerberg (mountain) by a farmer, which the Zweibrücken Chief Mountain Director ("Oberbergdirektor") Stahl later had exploited, an endeavour at which over the years Stahl himself and the Duke of Zweibrücken (for his private estate) made a profit of more than 10,000 "Gulden".