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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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Mezica | Mezica Lead and Zinc Mine |
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Glancnik 6 | 2392 Mezica | Slovenia |
| Mines in the Karavanke mountains near Mezica (formerly Miess), which lies close to the border with Austria, north-west of Velenje, were worked from the 17th century, and were one of the principal sour... more >> |
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Minas de Riotinto | Parque de Minero de Riotinto |
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Plaza Ernest Lluch s/n | 21660 Minas de Riotinto | Spain |
| The mines of copper, pyrites, gold and silver at Rio Tinto have been worked since antiquity, but were much enlarged following the building in 1876 of a metre-gauge railway to Huelva, 80 km N, on the c... more >> |
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Mons-Framerie | ‘PASS’ Science Adventure Park |
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Rue de Mons 3 | 7080 Mons-Framerie | Belgium |
| A former colliery complex at Frameries, 8 km south-west of Mons, has been adapted as a 28 ha science adventure park, most of the buildings having been designed or renovated by the architect Jean Nouve... more >> |
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Mytilene | salt museum |
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AenalKountourioti 1 | 8110 Mytilene | Greece |
| The island of Lesvos (Lesbos) in the north-east Aegean has been notable for soap-making and for olive oil processing, but the most important initiative in industrial heritage to spring from the island... more >> |
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Neath | Cefn Ceod Colliery Museum |
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Crynant | SA10 8SN Neath | Great Britain |
| Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is situated in the heart of the picturesque Dulais Valley and tells the story of colliery life from Victorian times to the 1950s. The museum is housed in the original collier... more >> |
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Neufchef | Ecomuseum of the Iron Mines of Lorraine |
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Vallée de Sainte Neige | 57700 Neufchef | France |
| Lorraine iron ore was the first victim of globalisation long before this became a household word. It was known in the region as “minette” or “small ore” because of its low iron content – abo... more >> |
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New Tredegar | Elliot Colliery Engine House |
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White Rose Way | NP24 6DF New Tredegar | Great Britain |
| The Elliot Colliery two storey winding house (1891) contains a magnificent Victorian steam engine, once part of the local coal mine. Today it stands as a community museum and visitors can experience ... more >> |
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Newtongrange | National Mining Museum Scotland |
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Lady Victoria Colliery | EH22 4QN Newtongrange | Great Britain |
| What is the link between a certain Lady Victoria, black diamonds and a place called Newtongrange in Scotland? It’s simple? For Lady Victoria is the name of the old colliery in Newtongrange and when ... more >> |
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Northwich | Lion Salt Works |
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Ollershaw Lane | CW9 6ES Northwich | Great Britain |
| What a back-breaking job! Standing bent over a huge steaming saltpan the whole day, regulating the flow of brine and the temperature of the furnaces, raking the salt, filling the tubs and baking it dr... more >> |
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Northwich | Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse |
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162 London Road | CW9 8AB Northwich | Great Britain |
| A visit to Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse begins on the ground floor with a short introductory film in ‘The Regalette’ mini-cinema. You then walk through the Special Exhibitions Gallery to ... more >> |
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Oberzeiring | Historic Silver Mine |
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8762 Oberzeiring | Austria |
| The silver mines at Oberzeiring, 16 km north-west of Judenburg in the Aauern Mountains, were worked for more than a thousand years and for several centuries in the late middle ages formed the most pr... more >> |
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Oelsnitz | Mining Museum |
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Pfockenstrasse 28 | 09376 Oelsnitz | Germany |
| Coal in the area around Oelsnitz, 25 km south-west of Chemnitz was mined on a large scale between 1844 and 1971, although some had been extracted by farmers from their own fields in earlier times. Som... more >> |
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Oignies | Mining and Railway Centre |
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Rue Emile Zola | 62590 Oignies | France |
| Oignies is a coal-mining community 15 km north-west of Douai and 20 km south of Lille. Coal was first discovered in the area in 1842, and the last was extracted in 1990. The centre named after Denis P... more >> |
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Olbernhau | Saigerhütte Museum |
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In der Hutte 10 | 09526 Olbernhau | Germany |
| Saigerhutte in Olbernhau, 32 km south-west of Chemnitz, was once a self-contained village of timber-framed buildings devoted to the processing of copper, which originated in 1836, and was the principa... more >> |
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Ordino | Llorts Mine and Rossell Forge |
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Areny-Plandolit Museum | 300 Ordino | Andorra |
| Andorra, the tiny independent principality bordered by France and Spain, which has a population of only 86,000, was of considerable importance as a source of iron in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.... more >> |
