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

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

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