American businessman, opened the first of seven large mines (he gave his name to the main settlement, Longyearbyen). Only Mine 7 is still in use. Mine 3 produced coal from 1971 to 1996 and was known for [...] start the journey in the mine’s workshops. Equipped with helmets and lamps, they walk 300 meters into the mountain through the main underground roadway. Guides explain the mine’s history and working life

on the coast of Tuscany was heavily mined for pyrites in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The park incorporates many buildings once associated with mining which have been adapted to other purposes [...] purposes, and some open cast workings. The interpretation of mining is centre on an early twentieth century mine, where, after viewing an introductory audio-visual programme, visitors can enter the galleries

that served the Tresavean Mine, whose surviving engine house has the highest chimney of any Cornish mine. The centre is located in the former calciner at the King Edward Mine which is managed as a museum [...] networks is focussed on the discovery centre at the King Edward Mine. The 10 km Great Flat Lode Trail guides visitors through the mining area that is dominated by the de Dunstanville monument on Carn Brea [...] before I K Brunel’s broad gauge main line railway reached the west of Cornwall the tin and copper mines of the area around Redruth ahd Camborne were linked with harbours on the coast by early railways.

The lead and silver mines of Lavrion, on the Greek mainland south of Athens, were important in classical antiquity and in more recent centuries, and were worked in the 19th century by a Greek and a French [...] established by the Lavrion Studies Society (EMEL) in 1986 commemorates the work of the geologist and mining engineer A. Kordellas (1863-1909). The museum, in a building of 1873 built by the Greek company, [...] ore-washing complex, displays 115 different metals, along with evidence of industrial processes, mining tools, lamps, lead ingots and slag specimens. Housing built by both the companies remains, as does

independent principality of Andorra on Spain’s border with France. The area was important for the mining of brown coal in the twentieth century, and the whole area around the St Juan pit is interpreted [...] guides. Visitors can also explore the Huzadal Corta Allozo, an open-cast pit which illustrates both mining history and geology.

heart of the Luxemburg ore basin. Not so long ago the area was full of industry: collieries, open-pit mines and blast furnaces. Nowadays the region bears witness to a century of industrial history in idyllic

involving ironworking and the mining of iron ore (which ceased in 1987), the extraction of gold, lead, copper and zinc ores, ceramics and glass manufactures and the mining of lignite for electric power [...] mansion. The steel headstock and winding house of the Schlachtanlage (mine) Bayerland are characteristic of those built for mines in the region in the 1930s. The glass grinding and polishing workshop dates [...] illustrate the lives of miners, detailing their freedoms and obligations, and displaying traditional mining costumes. Other sections show some of the varied products of the area, particularly porcelain, minerals

village is the Chrustenice Shaft, a former coal and iron ore mine which extended to a depth of 426 m. Displays illustrate the history of mining in locality, with a section on quarrying in America. Visitors

exhibition gallery illustrates the development of coal-mining technology, the history of coal as a source of energy, and the social life of mining communities in northern France, particularly in the 1890s [...] role of horses in mining. The Centre holds the historic archives of the colliery companies of the Nord Pas-de-Calais region, and collections of railway rolling stock associated with mining and of twentieth [...] The centre at Guesnain 8km SE of Douai is the largest mining museum in France and occupies the surface buildings of the Delloye Colliery that was sunk in 1920. Most of the principal surface structures

provides information about visiting the mining heritage of the region by car or on walks along well-marked trails, some of them on old railway lines. There are many mining sites with tall engine houses, shafts [...] Lead mining was an important industry in the area around Linares in Andalucia. It began in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After 1849 it developed with rail transport and new investment to become [...] become one of the most important lead producing regions in the world. British mining entrepreneurs introduced miners and technology from Cornwall, especially Cornish steam engines to pump water and raise

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 35.5 [...] the winding gear. The director’s office is brought alive by the mining company’s original documents, payment registers and plans of the mines. There are also remains of processing buildings and some surviving

of Askersund. 1 km from the mine, which is still active today, is the Knalla mine, which was in operation until 2004. Since 2016, an exhibition mine was operated in the mine, the underground section of [...] zinc, lead, copper and silver have been mined and enriched since the second half of the 1850s. At that time, the Belgian company Vieille Montagne built the mining facility and accommodation for the miners [...] buildings above ground continue to house a mining museum, which offers guided tours of the site and operates a 500-metre-long narrow-gauge railway line around the mine site. The museum's exhibition hall houses

present times and the mining technology typical for the 20th century. The wide array of things to see is what makes Landek Park the unique museum that it is. Descend down into the oldest mine in Ostrava together [...] into the world of mining. You can try out how heavy jackhammers and shovels are. Coal ploughs will jump into gear right in front of your eyes. Finally, the grand finale is a ride on the mine train. [...] The mining museum situated in Landek Park opened in 1993, but incorporating collections that date from 1905, is based in a range of red brick colliery buildings, designed by Viennese architects between

lignit-mining in Slovenia, originated in 1956-7, but the present museum in the old shaft (Stari jasek) was opened in 1999. Visitors are able to explore underground workings in one part of the mine, where [...] an underground canteen before going on to a second series of workings where more recent methods of mining, including hydraulic supports and mechanised cutters are exhibited. Exhibits on the surface include

the story of mining in the area between the rivers Sieg and Heller from prehistoric times until the 1960s, with displays of minerals, miners’ tools and lighting equipment and a replica mine. A 15 m high [...] Herdorf, on the River Heller 20 km south-west of Siegen, was the chief centre of mining for coal and iron ore in the Siegerland, a region celebrated for the production of iron and steel. The museum project

The Asociación Cultural Meuseo Minero (Cultural Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in [...] several locomotives. It also holds documents relating to mining and a collection of minerals. Guidance is provided to the monuments of the mining industry, open-cast pits, calcining kilns, ore-washing equipment [...] equipment and ropeways. The museum encourages research into mining operations and mining culture, and operates a children’s section where painting, crafts and other activities are encouraged.

from the Middle Ages onwards. In 1880 it made 60% of the iron in the Habsburg Empire. The museum of mining and foundry work at Gußwerk is in the impressive building of the former ‘kk’ iron foundry. A foundry [...] produced cannons, machine parts and tools. The museum opened in 1998. It tells the story of iron mining in the region and displays the history, techniques and products of iron casting. Several cannons

and Else shafts started in 1912 but was interrupted by war and most of the mine buildings were completed in 1924. Although mining stopped in 1966, today the shafts are used for the deep storage of waste [...] brought to life by a sound installation with oral testimonies. Exhibitions show the techniques of mining and potash processing in the region using models, photographs, tools and equipment. A collection

Terrils Rando, a guided walk through the mining landscape around Oignies in which a thousand people participated in 2007. The spectacular steel headstocks of Oignies Mines 9 and 9A are protected monuments but [...] 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 Papin [...] of brick buildings from which protrudes the colliery’s headstock. The outstanding exhibit in the mining section is the 3800 hp steam winding engine built in Mulhouse in 1932 which wound coal and men up

preserves the heritage of coal mining and railways at the site of the St Louis coal mine, which operated from 1928 to 1988. Mining began in the area in 1768. In 1931 the St Louis mine employed nearly 1,000 people