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ERIH Board meeting in Katowice/Poland
On invitation of the Silesian Voivodeship the ERIH board met in Katowice/Poland and discussed with...
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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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Hellenthal | Grube Wohlfahrt visitors mine |
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Rescheid - Aufbereitung II 1 | 53940 Hellenthal | Germany |
| It is cold, somewhat damp, and dark. At places you have to duck your heads. Visitors very quickly appreciate what mining lead ore underground used to entail. The underground gallery has a total length... more >> |
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Helston | Poldark Mine |
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Wendron | TR13 0ES Helston | Great Britain |
| The underground tour at Poldark has been described by a distinguished authority as ‘one of the two most atmospheric mine tours in Europe’. Poldark, 3 km from Helston, is a multi-facetted visitor a... more >> |
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Herten | Ewald Mine |
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Werner-Heisenberg-Straße 14 | 45699 Herten | Germany |
| The history of the Ewald colliery began in 1871. Three mining contractors in Essen, one of whom Ewald Hilger, gave his name to the pit, set up the colliery in the south of Herten. After a thorny start... more >> |
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Hoyerswerda | Energy Factory Knappenrode |
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Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 8 | 02977 Hoyerswerda | Germany |
| The coal dust has long since disappeared, to be replaced by an ensemble of shining redbrick buildings on a site resembling a park. The old Knappenrode briquetting plant near Hoyerswerda is the heart o... more >> |
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Idrija | Idrija Mine Museum |
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Kosovelova 3 | 5280 Idrija | Slovenia |
| Idrija was a centre for the mining of zinc ores and cinnabar, the ore from which mercury is obtained, for many centuries. Cinnabar deposits discovered in 1497 were worked by the government of the Habs... more >> |
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Iglesias | Geological, Mining Park of Sardinia |
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Via Monteverdi 16 | 09016 Iglesias | Italy |
| The plan of the Geological and Mining Park of Sardinia has been elaborated by EMSA (Sardinian Mining Agency). It provides for eight areas which are spread over the entire island, and which have been s... more >> |
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Imón | Salinas |
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Imón | Spain |
| The medieval cities of Imón de Jadraque in the province of Guadalajara, lie some 150 km NE of Madrid near the main road from the capital to Barcelona and already attract large numbers of tourists. Th... more >> |
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Inden | Inden Brown coal open-cast mining |
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Burgstraße | 50126 Inden | Germany |
| The typical signs of Rhineland brown coal open-cast mining can be recognised for miles around on the flat plain east of Aachen. The huge accumulation of rubble on the "Sofienhöhe", waste ma... more >> |
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Kerkrade | Continium - Discovery Center Kerkrade |
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Museumplein 2 | 6461 MA Kerkrade | Netherlands |
| Listen to it, look at it, touch it, smell it, try it out!...It’s clear from the start that Industrion in Kerkrade is a very special museum. Here you can discover the exciting and turbulent history o... more >> |
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Kongsberg | The Norwegian Mining Museum |
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Hyttegt 3 | 3602 Kongsberg | Norway |
| The town of Kongsberg was founded in 1624 to smelt silver ores discovered the previous years. Its prosperity in the 18th century is shown by its Baroque church of 1761 that can accommodate a congregat... more >> |
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Kosice | Slovak Technical Museum |
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Hlavna 88 | 043 82 Kosice | Slovakia |
| The Slovak Technical Museum originated in 1948, and gained its present name in 1983. It is located in an 18th century Baroque mansion in Kosice, the second town of the old kingdom of Hungary, an impor... more >> |
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Kutna Hora | Czech Museum of Silver |
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Barborska 28 | 284 01 Kutna Hora | Czech Republic |
| Silver ores were mines and processed at Kutna Hora in medieval times, and a royal mint, established there about 1300 worked until 1726 when it was transferred to Prague. The area was important in the ... more >> |
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La Calamine/Kelmis | Musée de la Vallée de la Gueule |
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Rue Max / Maxstr. 9-11 | 4720 La Calamine/Kelmis | Belgium |
| People enjoying the blossoming flowers and plants on a stroll through the hilly countryside around La Calamine (German: Kelmis) in the springtime, will come across tender blossoms of yellow violets in... more >> |
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La Louvière | Mining Site Bois-du-Luc. Ecomusée |
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Rue Saint-Patrice 2b | 7110 La Louvière | Belgium |
| The entrance is a thick steel guillotine door, flanked by two round towers which look as if they might have come out of the Middle Ages. Behind them are redbrick buildings which, because of their rich... more >> |
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Laeso | Laeso Saltsyderi |
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Hornfiskrønvej 3 | 9940 Laeso | Denmark |
| Laeso is a small island of some 116 sq km with a population of 2500 in the Kattegat, where sandy soils have been inundated with seawater over the centuries to such an extent that brine from pits dug i... more >> |
