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Coal from European and American collieries was the universal fuel during the Industrial Revolution. Nonetheless technical inventions in mining played a relatively insignificant role. The main cause was the ongoing abundance of workers. Colliery owners were able to attain higher outputs simply by employing more workers. For the same reason they were able to postpone any improvements to the catastrophic working conditions for a long time.

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I	Abbadia San Salvatore \| Abbadia San Salvatore Mining Museum
	Piazzale R Rosare 2 \| Abbadia San Salvatore \| Italy
	Abbadia San Salvatore is a town of about 7,000 people, 70 km south of Sienna and west of the Autostrada and railway from Florence to Rome. It was founded in the mid-8th century, and takes its name fro... more >>

GB	Aberdare \| Cynon Valley Museum and Art Gallery
	Depot RoadGadlys \| CF44 8DL Aberdare \| Great Britain
	The Museum tells the story of the social history of the Cynon Valley from 1800 to the present. Audio visual presentations in the gallery include films on the iron industry around 1830 and the Miner’... more >>

I	Abies Alba \| Siele mercury mine
	Vicolo di Castello, 12- \| 12 Abies Alba \| Italy
	The Siele Mine, like that at Abbadia San Salvatore, was used to extract cinnabar, the mineral from which mercury is obtained, from deposits within Mount Amiato, an extinct volcano that rises to a heig... more >>

B	Aiseau-Presles \| Trail of Pit Heaps
	Rue du Centre 78 \| 6250 Aiseau-Presles \| Belgium
	Aisneau is a small community about 6 km east of Charleroi which is the headquarters of La Chaine des Terrils, an organisation that protects, conserves and interprets pit heaps across Wallonia from Ber... more >>

P	Alcoutim \| Parque Mineiro da Cova dos Mouros
	Vanquiros \| Alcoutim \| Portugal
	Copper has been mined since prehistoric times in the region of Alcoutim, a Portuguese town on the River Guardiana, which is the frontier with Spain, 65 km north-east of Faro. Exploitation on an indust... more >>

E	Almaden (Cuidad Real) \| Mining Park of Almaden
	Cerco de San Teodoro \| 13400 Almaden (Cuidad Real) \| Spain
	Almaden is a town located 589 m above sea level, 200 km south of Madrid and about the same distance north-east of Seville. For more than two millennia it has been one of Europe’s principal sources o... more >>

B	Amay \| Les Maitres du Feu - Route du Feu
	Rue de Bende 5 \| B-4540 Amay \| Belgium
	The contrast could scarcely be greater: the little town of Amay, with its old town centre, narrow alleyways, mansions and cloisters situated idyllically in the Mass valley, in the shadows of the massi... more >>

GB	Amlwch \| Mynydd Parys and Porth Amlwch
	The Sail Loft, Porth Amlwch \| LL68 9DB Amlwch \| Great Britain
	As long ago as the Bronze Age people knew that the North Wales mountain of Mynydd Parys contained copper. Just how much was lying untouched in the ground, however, only came to light in 1768. This had... more >>

F	Arc-et-Senans \| La Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans
	Saline royale \| F 25610 Arc-et-Senans \| France
	The saltworks at Arc-et-Senans is one of the most spectacular industrial monuments in Europe. It was built between 1775 and 1779 on the fringe of the forest of Chaux, since supplies of wood for fuel w... more >>

F	Argentella \| Argentella Silver Mine
	Argentella \| France
	The Argentella silver mine lies on the bay of Crovani on the west coast of Corsica, within the district of Calinzana. The mine was a source of argentiferous galena (i.e. silver-bearing lead ore) and w... more >>

GB	Ashington \| Woodhorn Northumberland Museum and Archives
	Queen Elizabeth II Country Park \| NE63 9YF Ashington \| Great Britain
	The museum at Woodhorn Colliery houses one of the most significant collections in Europe of paintings by workers who had no formal training in art. In the early twentieth century some miners from pits... more >>

F	Aumetz \| Iron ore-mine museum of Aumetz
	Rue Saint Léger de Montbrillais \| 57110 Aumetz \| France
	There´s no steel without coke. It was only when coke began to be used in 1769 that "Minette" (iron ore with a relatively small proportion of iron) really began to pay off as a raw material for making... more >>

D	Bad Reichenhall \| Old Saltworks
	Salinenstraße \| 83435 Bad Reichenhall \| Germany
	The largest saltworks in Germany is located in Bavaria, at Bad Reichenhall on the Austrian border, 16 km south-west of Salzburg. The record of working salt in the area goes back to the year 682 ad, an... more >>

SK	Banska Stiavnica \| Open Air Museum of Mining
	J.K Hella 12 \| 969 00 Banska Stiavnica \| Slovakia
	Banska Stiavnica – a world heritage site - was from the 13th century one of Europe’s most important sources of silver, lead and iron ore, and the town retains many buildings that provide of its pr... more >>

NL	Barger-Compascuum \| Peat park: the world of peat
	Berkenrode 4 \| 7884 TR Barger-Compascuum \| Netherlands
	The 180 ha Veenpark is an open-air museum of the peat-digging industry, based in a village established in the 19th century by poor farmers from Hanover, who made habitable a region of impassable bogs.... more >>