century and still today is one of the most important industrial areas in Central Europe with its coal mining, iron and steel production and vehicle industry. ‘Moravian-Silesian Tourism' highlights the evidence [...] 'TECHNOTRASA'. The virtual route leads to more than 30 technical objects connected with the tradition of mining, metallurgy, railway transport, automotive industry, but also firefighting, brewing, military and

miners are hurrying towards their shift. In the busy assay office copper ore from the surrounding mines is checked and sorted according to quality. The whole place is buzzing with activity. The only exception [...] taverns and the decks and storage spaces of a sailing ketch. A journey deep into one of the many copper mines in the valley on a electric tramway leaves the deepest impression. Here the imposing underground son [...] effects give visitors a vivid sensation of the arduous and oppressive everyday conditions in the old mines.

classical archway to the industrial archaeological sites of the foundries, blast furnaces and iron ore mines of the "Calabrian Iron and Steel Industry Park".

industrial history of the region. The themes covered by the museum are connected especially with mining, agriculture and the making of charcoal. The agricultural traditions of the region are shown by hand

The Eisden mine, which was located in the relatively sparsely populated border region to the Netherlands, had to make special efforts to recruit sufficient workers when it started operations in 1922. Germans [...] Italians, French, Poles, Czechs or Hungarians were recruited. For its miners and their families, the mining company had an attractive housing estate with utilities built in the style of English garden cities

journey along the Ofoten Railway. For those who would like to experience or visit LKAB in Narvik, the mining town of Kiruna, walking along the navvy road from the Swedish border to the bottom of Ofoten fjord

Calamine, Moresnet and Stolberg, where the soil is polluted with heavy metals from the old calamine ore mines. The area around La Calamine (south-west of Aachen) and Stolberg (south-east of Aachen) has its own [...] view, since it consisted almost completely of calamine (zinc spar). There is evidence of calamine mining at Vieille Montagne as early as the Middle Ages. Brass was made by processing the ore with copper [...] industry in the Aachen region. Until the end of the 17th century the ore was quarried from open mines and exported all over Europe, even as far as Russia. Starting in the 18th century the miners gradually

extracted in the area and made into pigments that were exported worldwide. Artefacts associated with mining, processing and marketing of ochre are displayed. Finally, the museum traces the clay industries

Saint-Etienne is one of France’s most notable industrial cities. Nearby coal mines stimulated the growth of ironworking, glassmaking, textiles, particularly ribbons, and the manufacture of armaments in

Since 1963 the Museum of Chemistry has been in the fourteenth-century Thury Castle in the former coal-mining town of Várpalota, 80 km west of Budapest. The museum examines the history of chemistry, beginning

from the Middle Ages in mining for gold and silver was linked to the creation of a mint that has operated continuously for some 700 years. The museum tells the stories of mining and the manufacture of coins [...] an ancient house on the main square. In the basements visitors learn about the development of ore mining and processing with displays of minerals, tools, trucks, a furnace and testing and measuring instruments

the beginning of the industrialization until the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition illustrates the mining and processing of the clay that was taken from the nearby Hirschberg, a place still rich in lignite

run on the 5-kilometres of track. The railway was built at standard gauge in 1862 to take coal from mines at Zbýšov to the main line at Zastávka, but it now operates at 600-mm gauge. The museum has a static

provides the energy to move one wheel. Inside, a multimedial exhibition tells the story of the iron mining and the production of iron tools, with a final immersion in an authentic hammer mill environment

in southern Poland was the centre of the country’s iron ore mining industry. A museum was established in 1968 with displays illustrating mining techniques, and collections of winding equipment, roof support [...] drilling and face-cutting machinery, lighting and ventilation systems, locomotives used underground and mining maps. Subsequently the museum was re-located to tunnels excavated in 1974-76 linking exhibition pavilions [...] experienced by past generations of iron ore miners. Artefacts have been gathered from many different mines in the region.

copper mine of the Hellenic Copper Mines company. The itinerary begins at either Lemesos or Larnaka and crosses the island to Katydata. The landscape is full of ancient spoil heaps and opencast mines. To [...] self-drive itinerary of copper-mining heritage. Cyprus was the largest supplier of copper to the ancient world. Even the word ‘copper’ comes from the name of the island. One large mine is still operating – the [...] and artefacts made with copper over the last 5,000 years. Nearby is the Skouriotissa mine, where copper has been mined across four thousand years.

its working life it was a self enclosed world cut off from the surrounding area by high walls. The mining company not only dictated everyday working conditions but also the miners´ private lives in the [...] settlement. Since 1983 visitors have been allowed inside this microcosm, thanks to the museum of mining. The round tour of the museum entitled "Between Men and Machines" gives a vivid picture of the strict

of an electric arc furnace. Other galleries have displays on electric power, forest industries and mining, and the development from its infancy of information technology. An extensive model layout shows

c images, including a collection by the celebrated photographer Gustave Marissaux (1872-1929) of mining subjects. Marissaux was born in the nearby industrial community of Seraing. The museum is located

handsome G. Asproni Institute of Mining in the centre of the town of Iglesias. The Institute was built in 1871 to teach people mining for the lead, zinc and silver mines of Sardinia. An unexpected feature [...] feature inside the building is the existence of a training mine with 400 m of tunnels dug below the Institute. These were begun in 1934 and used during the Second World War as air-raid shelters. The tunnels