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15.05.13
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 - Save the date - Call for papers now open
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 – Back in the Ruhr Subject:...
15.04.13
ERIH Board meeting in Katowice/Poland
On invitation of the Silesian Voivodeship the ERIH board met in Katowice/Poland and discussed with...
01.03.13
Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
More than 100 delegates from 15 European Countries attended the ERIH Conference 2012 in September...
The treasures of the Earth: European Theme Route Mining
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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Redruth | East Pool Mine |
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Pool | TR15 3ED Redruth | Great Britain |
| Cornwall was Europe’s principal source of tin from classical times and an important source of copper during the Industrial Revolution period, and the ores of many other metals have been extracted fr... more >> |
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Redruth | Heartlands |
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Dudnance LanePool | TR15 3QY Redruth | Great Britain |
Heartlands is an outstanding example of industrial heritage as a focus for community ... |
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Redruth | Cornish Studies Library |
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The Cornwall CentreAlma Place | TR15 2AT Redruth | Great Britain |
The Cornwall Centre is dedicated to providing information about Cornwall and is staffed by professional librarians. Its col... |
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Rhondda | Rhondda Heritage Park |
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Coed Cae Road | CF37 2NP Rhondda | Great Britain |
| They laboured like animals: bent double in the low galleries, their lungs full of dust, in constant fear of the walls collapsing, or a gas explosion. But despite all this, they were as proud as any fa... more >> |
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Ridnaun | South Tirol Mining Museum |
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Maiern 48 | 39040 Ridnaun | Italy |
| The mining museums at Schneeburg, near St Leonard, which lies between Merano and the Austrian border are part of the Südtiroler Bergbaumuseum (South Tirol Mining Museum) which manages five sites in t... more >> |
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Rio Marina | Island of Elba Mineral Park |
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Via Magenta 26 | Rio Marina | Italy |
| The island of Elba was the principal source of iron ore, in the eighteenth century for furnaces like those at Capalbio and Accessa in Tuscany, and in the nineteenth century for the much larger coke-fi... more >> |
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Rivabellosa | Salinas de Anana |
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Plaza de los Fueros 11 | 01213 Rivabellosa | Spain |
| Saltmakers in the valley of the Anana Salt Flats, like those in many parts of Europe, used wind and sun to produce white salt by evaporating brine, but the area was quite exception in its use of terra... more >> |
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Rožòava | Mining Museum [BAHM] Rožòava |
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Safarikova 31 | 048 01 Rožòava | Slovakia |
| Rožòava is a mining town at the centre of an extensive ironmaking region in eastern Slovakia. Its mining museum, whose earliest collections date from 1902, has extensive displays, including some loc... more >> |
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Rumelange | National Museum of Iron Ore Mines |
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Carreau de la Mine Walert | 1714 Rumelange | Luxembourg |
| Rumelange lies to the south of the Duchy of Luxembourg near the French border, in an area rich in iron ores, called ‘les roches rouges’ (the red rocks). Large-scale mining of ore began with a conc... more >> |
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Røros | Røros Museum |
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Rørosmuseet 1 | 7460 Røros | Norway |
| Røros is a town of painted wooden houses some 600 m above sea level, surrounded by the waste tips of three centuries of copper smelting. A lode of copper ore was discovered nearby in 1644, and the to... more >> |
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Saarbrücken | Velsen Visitor Mine |
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Alte Grube Velsen | 66127 Saarbrücken | Germany |
| The Velsen colliery is a typical Saarland mine. It´s history began in 1899 with the sinking of the Rossel shaft. Coal mining began in 1904. In 1965 the pit was deprived of its independence and no mor... more >> |
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Saint-Etienne | Mining museum |
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3 boulevard Francet d’Esperey | 42000 Saint-Etienne | France |
| The area around Saint Etienne was for several centuries one of the principal sources of in France, and that coal was the basis of the city’s notable textile and engineering industries. The last mine... more >> |
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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines | TELLURE – The Underground Worlds Exploration Centre |
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86, Rue Wilson | 68160 Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines | France |
| Built on a mining site with a long and rich history of its own, Tellure offers an exciting combination of museum areas, interactive workshops, 3-D images and visits to authentic silver mines which hav... more >> |
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Sala | Sala Silvermine |
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Dr. Christinas Väg | 733 36 Sala | Sweden |
| Sala was called ‘Seva rikes skattkammare’ (Sweden’s treasure chest). Silver mines discovered in the late 15th century were developed with the assistance of German miners. Until 1908 Sala was the... more >> |
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Salins-les-Bains | Salines de Salins-les-Bains |
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Place des Salines | 39110 Salins-les-Bains | France |
| Salt was produced at Salin at least from the 6th century AD, but the works that closed in 1962 and is now displayed as a museum dates principally from the mid-18th century. One of its largest undergro... more >> |
