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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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Freiberg | Freiberg Municipal and Mining Museum |
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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... more >> |
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Fundao | Tungsten Mines |
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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... more >> |
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Gavorrano | Mineral Country Park Gavorrano |
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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... more >> |
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Gelsenkirchen | Nordstern Park |
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Am Bugapark | 45899 Gelsenkirchen | Germany |
| The Nordstern park in Gelsenkirchen is located on the site of a disused coal mine and is a mixture of carefully restored and modernised colliery buildings and landscaped gardens from a former National... more >> |
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Gerri de la Sal | Museu de Gerri de la Sal |
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Square Àngel Esteve, s/n | Lleida Gerri de la Sal | Spain |
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Glengoole | Mardyke mine |
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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... more >> |
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Golcar | Colne Valley Museum |
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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-... more >> |
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Goslar | World Heritage Site Rammelsberg - Museum and Visitors Mine |
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Bergtal 19 | 38640 Goslar | Germany |
| Narrow, crudely hewed out mining galleries: damp rock: glittering coloured crystal minerals. Suddenly the seemingly enchanted underground kingdom springs to life. Rushing water: a mighty scoop wheel c... more >> |
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Gräfenhainichen | Ferropolis - Town of Iron |
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Ferropolisstraße 1 | 06773 Gräfenhainichen | Germany |
| Its nickname was “Racehorse” and in its life it travelled a total of 221 kilometres – a long way for a crawler swing excavator. In 1995 the old steel giant went into retirement in Ferropolis, th... more >> |
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Großpösna | Bergbau-Technik-Park |
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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... more >> |
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Großräschen | IBA-Terraces Lausitzer Seenland visitor centre / former Meuro opencast mining |
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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 ... more >> |
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Halle | Technical Museum of the Saltworks and Saltworkers |
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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... more >> |
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Hallstatt | World Heritage Museum |
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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... more >> |
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Hamm | Maximilian Park |
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Alter Grenzweg 2 | 59071 Hamm | Germany |
| Sometimes it takes time to make changes. In Hamm on the north-east edge of the Ruhrgebiet the long wait has paid off. For almost a hundred years nature ran wild on the disused site of the old Maximili... more >> |
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Harchies (Bernissart) | Mine Museum |
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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 ... more >> |
