fire and bursting rock. The Rammelsberg Museum 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 [...] 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 creaks [...] through a mediaeval system of galleries, to the thunderous roar of modern mining and conveying techniques during a trip on the colliery railway. A fine example of industrial architecture awaits visitors on

ceased operations but in August 1956 it was the site of one of the most tragic accidents in European mining history; a disaster that killed a total of 262 workers. A major section of the colliery museum erected

Falun Mine. Once the world’s largest copper mine and today the heart of a unique historic industrial landscape, which was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. A path meanders around the mine and [...] the ore with a rope winch to the surface. More than one thousand years of the mine’s history are displayed in the local mining museum. Most spectacular is the coin cabinet with probably the heaviest and [...] Swedish miners centuries to dig out of the rock. The manor houses built in the area demonstrate that mining was a very profitable business. There are also the preserved remains of canals and moats which carried

museum of classical artworks housed in one of the papermill buildings, as marked by the tracks of the mine carts here preserved. The industrial history of the site is illustrated in the didactic panels along

Alsdorf is mining community about 15 kilometres north of Aachen, near the Belgian and Dutch borders, in the former Aachen and South Limburg coalfield. The local mining activity lasted for about 150 years [...] years. Coal mining began in 1849, followed two years later by the sinking of the Anna colliery. The second worst mining accident in German history, in which 271 people lost their lives, occurred in Shaft [...] Shaft II of this mine on 21 October 1930. The last pit was closed in 1992. Today, the preserved open-cast facilities of the Anna 2 mine are home to the ENERGETICON energy experience museum. With the core message

iron and paper industry. In 1689, Creutz was granted the privilege of building an ironworks by a mining college. At the turn of the 20th century, wood processing developed alongside iron production, first

good condition. Nowadays the colliery near Beringen in Limburg (Belgium) is the site of the Flemish Mining Museum. Visitors are put in the appropriate mood by a documentary film showing aspects of the everyday [...] Finally, the exhibition in the visitor centre puts the whole experience in the context of regional mining history. After that it is high time to take a walk along the colliers’ trail, which leads from the [...] energy, can then pay a visit to the neighbouring working class housing estate, complete with its mining cathedral.

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.

"Heritage Trail", bringing to life the history and technology of what was once Europe's largest coal mine. What was it like when the rhythm of gigantic machines and conveyor belts determined the lives of

From the second half of the 19th century onwards, coal was mined industrially in underground mines, but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg [...] illustrates the profound changes that industrialisation has brought to society, culture and nature. Coal mining plays a particularly important role here: Two steam engines are demonstrated in operation. A glass

control, power, and ventilations facilities used in the mine. A vertically running coal seam and a wall chaser illustrate how the coal was mined. Back to daylight, those who are still fit may join the

work of mine rescue services and the history of mining disasters. Also on display are scale models of opencast processes, winding gear, limekilns and the surface buildings of the Humboldt II mine in the [...] This mining museum is sited at the former Julius III lignite mine, 30km north of Most. It was established in 2003 by the Association of North Bohemian Miners in collaboration with the Most museum to show [...] show the history of mining in North Bohemia since the middle ages. Julius III operated for 120 years from 1881. The headframe is intact together with the shaft building and part of the coal preparation

company employed 14,000 people at several mines in the area. Mining began in ancient times but expanded with capital investment from the 1920s. The Spoluka mine was worked out by around 1972 and opened [...] The Spoluka mine in the town of Madan in the Rhodope mountains produced a wide range of economic minerals: lead, zinc, gold, silver, copper and cadmium. It was operated by the Bulgarian-Soviet company [...] tracks and waggons, safety equipment and pneumatic systems. A vertical shaft, ventilation chimney and mine yard are also preserved. On the surface are displays with models, historical equipment and images

who want to walk further can take a hiking trail in the hills to explore remains of the iron-ore mines and earlier furnaces.

visitors right in the middle of the largest surface mining of Central Europe. Starting from the valley of the small Styrian town Eisenerz the ore mine rises like the steps of a huge pyramid, surrounded [...] half kilometres into the maze of tunnels beneath the Erzberg ("iron mountain"). Down here there was mining of iron ore, too, as is impressively demonstrated by an 800-metre circular trail. An audiovisual

the west of Porto produced anthracite from the 1790s until the 1990s. The museum of the São Vicente mine explores the history of coalmining in the region. It is in the Vila Verde, an accommodation building [...] It contained reading and games rooms, a dining room, bathrooms and bedrooms for over 50 miners. The mine closed in 1970 and the building was in use by the community and a museum from 1989. The museum was

This settlement was estab­lished in the years 1860-1867 for the workers of Gottessegen mine. The owners of the mine were industrialists from the line of the Donnersmarcks, who also founded the settlement

on of a mine train for visitors known as “Austria’s smallest mine train”. A facility of the mine above ground shows objects found underground and further exhibits illustrating Radmer’s mining history. [...] Copper has been mined in the Radmer valley since the Bronze Age. Between 1590 and 1620 Radmer was one of the most important Alpine copper mining regions. In 1855 the mine was closed, leaving a total of

visitors follow the miners below the surface and, with the help of historic equipment, learn how mining developed between 1937 and 1964, the time when Serbariu was an active colliery. The original winding

open staircase. From up there, the panoramic view reveals a landscape where former open-cast lignite mines have been transformed into attractive lakes. In the museum itself, visitors breathe the smell of pressed