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ERIH Annual Conference 2013 – Back in the Ruhr
Subject: “Measuring the benefits of industrial...
Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
More than 100 delegates from 15 European Countries attended the ERIH Conference 2012 in September...
Call for papers: Rust, Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Cultures
International Conference Announcement and Call for Papers from the Ironbridge International...

Itinéraire thématique des mines
Le charbon des mines européennes et américaines était le combustible universel de l’industrialisation. Pourtant, le rôle joué par les innovations techniques dans l’histoire des mines est insignifiant. Cela s’explique par l’offre constamment excédentaire de main d’œuvre : les propriétaires des mines n’avaient en effet qu’à engager toujours plus d’ouvriers pour atteindre une plus grande capacité d’extraction. C’est pour la même raison qu’ils ont longtemps pu se dérober au problème des conditions de travail désastreuses des mineurs.
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Freiberg | Freiberg Municipal and Mining Museum |
| Am Dom 1 | 09599 Freiberg | Germany | |
| Freiberg is the principal city of the Erzgebirge (the ore mountains) in Saxony, one of Europe’s principal sources of metallic ores, a mining region that extended into the present Czech Republic. Fre... plus >> |
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Fundao | Tungsten Mines |
| Rua do Serrao 13-15 | 6230-418 Fundao | Portugal | |
| The mines around Barroca Grande , Silvares and Panasqueira, 35 km west of Fundao, are the most productive source of tungsten in Europe. Prospecting in the area began in 1886, the mineral wolframite, t... plus >> |
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Gavorrano | Mineral Country Park Gavorrano |
| Gavorrano | Italy | |
| The area around Monte Calvo near to Gavorano on the coast of Tuscany was heavily mined for pyrites in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The park incorporates many buildings once associated... plus >> |
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Gelsenkirchen | Parc Nordstern |
| Am Bugapark | 45899 Gelsenkirchen | Germany | |
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Gerri de la Sal | Museu de Gerri de la Sal |
| Square Àngel Esteve, s/n | Lleida Gerri de la Sal | Spain | |
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Glengoole | Mardyke mine |
| Glengoole | Ireland | |
| In the 1860s there were 73 collieries in Ireland. Their output in 1854 was nearly 150,000 tons, less than one per cent of United Kingdom production, most of which was used near the pitheads... plus >> |
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Golcar | Colne Valley Museum |
| Cliff Ash | HD7 4PY Golcar | Great Britain | |
| The museum at Golcar provides many illuminating insights into the lives of nineteenth-century makers of woollen cloth, and into the ways in which domestic manufacturing gradually evolved into factory-... plus >> |
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Goslar | Rammelsberg, patrimoine mondial de la culture |
| Bergtal 19 | 38640 Goslar | Germany | |
| Des galeries souterraines étroites, sommairement dégagées. De la pierre brute. Le scintillement cristallin des minerais colorés. Tout à coup ce royaume souterrain apparemment enchanté s’anime ... plus >> |
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Gräfenhainichen | Ferropolis – Une ville en fer |
| Ferropolisstraße 1 | 06773 Gräfenhainichen | Germany | |
| Son sobriquet était le « cheval de course ». Il a en tout parcouru 221 kilomètres, ce qui est énorme pour un excavateur à chenilles orientable. Depuis 1995, le géant en acier au grand âge peut... plus >> |
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Großpösna | Bergbau-Technik-Park |
| Hauptsttraße 19 | 04463 Großpösna | Germany | |
| Der mitteldeutsche Raum ist geprägt von der jahrhunderte langen Gewinnung, Veredelung und Nutzung der Naturressource Braunkohle. Die Zeugnisse dieses gewaltigen Eingriffes in das Natur- und Landschaf... plus >> |
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Großräschen | Centre des visiteurs des terrasses IBA / ancienne mine Meuro |
| Seestraße 100 | 01983 Großräschen | Germany | |
| The tours do not promise too much. One is called “Journey to Mars”, another “Jeep-Safari”. They lead deep into a scarred, alien landscape of yawning chasms, pockmarked excavations and strange ... plus >> |
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Halle | Technical Museum of the Saltworks and Saltworkers |
| Mansfelder Strasse 52 | 06108 Halle | Germany | |
| For many centuries Halle was one of the principal salt-producing cities in Germany. The city’s name is an ancient Indo-Germanic word for salt, and the first documentary reference to the brine spring... plus >> |
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Hallstatt | World Heritage Museum |
| Seestrasse 56 | 4830 Hallstatt | Austria | |
| Hallstatt is a village where salt has been worked for seven millennia on the shore of the Halstatter-See that gives its name to an early European Iron Age culture of 1000 – 500 b.c. It was designate... plus >> |
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Hamm | Parc Maximilian |
| Alter Grenzweg 2 | 59071 Hamm | Germany | |
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Harchies (Bernissart) | Le Musée de la Mine à Harchies |
| Rue Marquais | 7321 Harchies (Bernissart) | Belgium | |
| Harchies is a mining community west of Bernissart, with which it has been combined for local government purposes since 1976. The mining museum was created in the years 1988-89 by a local man, Jeannot ... plus >> |
