Caporciano copper mine dates back to prehistory and the Etruscan era. It reopened in the fifteenth century and in the nineteenth century it was for a time perhaps Europe’s most extensive copper mine, with [...] registers and plans of the mines. There are also remains of processing buildings and some surviving timber ore-stamps. As well as seeing the museum, visitors can take organised walks that begin in the tunnels and

and Visitor Mine near Goslar stages 1,000 years of mining history; from the age-old method of mining ore by laying a fire, via an adventurous expedition through a mediaeval system of galleries, to the thunderous [...] how conical crushers, ball mills and flotation engines processed finely ground concentrates from copper, lead and zinc ores. All this is accompanied by vivid sound effects of everyday working conditions

expanse of woodland. Then, suddenly a red gorge appears: The Falun Mine. Once the world’s largest copper mine and today the heart of a unique historic industrial landscape, which was designated by UNESCO [...] some cabins, which are dangerously close to the edge of the abyss, and were formerly used to drag the ore with a rope winch to the surface. More than one thousand years of the mine’s history are displayed