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ERIH Board meeting in Katowice/Poland
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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
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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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Cuevas del Almanzora | Sierra Almagrera mining district |
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Plaza De La Contitucion | 04610 Cuevas del Almanzora | Spain |
| Cuevas de Almanzora, 70 km north-east of Almeria, is the principal town of the mining district in the Sierra Almagrera, a range of mountains that runs parallel to the coast for about 12 kms. Minerals ... more >> |
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Cynonville | South Wales Miners Museum |
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Afan Forest Park | SA13 3HG Cynonville | Great Britain |
| Set in a country park the museum is run by a committed group of ex-miners. Main features include a traditional miners cottage scene, historic photographs illustrating the miners way of life, the poign... more >> |
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Davos Platz | Graubünden Mining Museum |
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Edelweissweg 2 | 7270 Davos Platz | Switzerland |
| Iron ore and other metallic ores were mined in the canton on Grisons in the nineteenth century, and the history of mining in the region is commemorated in the museum at Schmelzboden, 4 km south-west o... more >> |
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Differdange | Industry and Railway Park Fond-de-Gras |
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erreichbar über / accessible via Differdange-NiedercornPostadresse / postal address1, Place du Marché | L-4576 Pétange Differdange | Luxembourg |
| At first sight the “vallée de la Chiers” looks peaceful, even abandoned. But then an old steam locomotive chugs into sight moving towards a small station. Fond-de-Gras is the name of this hidden-... more >> |
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Donetsk | Regional History Museum |
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189a, ulitsa Chelyuskintsev | Donetsk | Ukraine |
| The city of Donetsk owes its existence to the building of an ironworks in 1870 by John Hughes, a Welshman. It grew rapidly, exploiting the rich mineral resources of the Don basin, and was originally n... more >> |
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Dortmund | LWL Industrial Museum Zollern II/IV Colliery |
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Grubenweg 5 | 44388 Dortmund | Germany |
| Angle towers and gables with battlements, artistically ornate staircases, an imposing boulevard of lime and plane trees against the background of a palatial redbrick façade! Was this once supposed to... more >> |
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Dortmund | Hansa Coking Plant |
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Emscherallee 11 | 44369 Dortmund | Germany |
| For outsiders the Hansa coking plant was a forbidden city for more than 60 years. Its roads and bridges were permeated with the smell of tar, its buildings and towers covered with layers of coal dust,... more >> |
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Dudley | Black Country Living Museum |
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Tipton Road | DY1 4SQ Dudley | Great Britain |
| Here is an opportunity to step back in time; step on the tram, and take it in to town. Stroll around the shops, watch the children whipping their spinning-tops in the street. Talk to the shopkeepers.... more >> |
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Dudley | Dudley Canal Tunnel and Limestone Mines |
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501 Birmingham New Road | DY1 4SB Dudley | Great Britain |
| There’s no towpath for your horse, and no engine in your boat, so how do you get your narrowboat through the long tunnel into the vast limestone caverns? You have to get out and push! Two men woul... more >> |
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Ehrenfriedersdorf | Tin Mine at Ehrenfriedersdorf: Visitor Mine |
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Am Sauberg 1 | 09427 Ehrenfriedersdorf | Germany |
| Tin ore was discovered in the region of Ehrenfriedersdorf, 34 km south of Chemnitz, in the 13th century and was mined until the early 1990s. Some silver was also extracted from the local mines, as wel... more >> |
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Eisenerz | Abenteuer Erzberg |
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Erzberg 1 | 8790 Eisenerz | Austria |
| The area around the Erzberg (the Iron Mountain) in Styria has been one of Europe’s principal sources of iron ore since the middle ages, and the Voest Alpine steelworks still operates at Donawitz. Th... more >> |
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El Entrego | Museum of Mining and Industry |
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El Trabanquin | 33940 El Entrego | Spain |
| Asturias was one of the most important coal mining regions in Spain and the museum at El Entrego, 3 km south of Langreo, provides evidence of the role of the mining industry in the 19th and 20th centu... more >> |
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Essen | World Heritage Site Zollverein |
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Gelsenkirchener Str. 181 | 45309 Essen | Germany |
| Zollverein is the meeting place for past, present and future. The past is the "path of coal". Zollverein was once the largest coal mine in Europe, the central point in the lives of 5,000 colliers and ... more >> |
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Falun | Falun Mine, World Heritage |
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Gruvgatan 44 | 791 61 Falun | Sweden |
| The contrast could not be greater, hamlets and small villages bordering idyllic lakes, set within an expanse of woodland. Then, suddenly a red gorge appears: The Falun Mine. Once the world’s largest... more >> |
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Figueira da Foz | Figueira da Foz salt museum |
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3080-084 Figueira da Foz | Portugal |
| The salt industry at Figuera de la Foz, a seaport and resort on the Mondego estuary, dates from the eleventh century AD, but many of the traditional salinas are being converted to fish farms. The salt... more >> |
