The coal mines of Faymoreau in the Vendée region of western France worked from 1827 to 1958. In 1995 the local council decided to preserve and present the region’s mining history in a Mining Centre at [...] a restaurant in the Hotel des Mines and the preserved headframe at St Maurice des Noues. A 12-km heritage route for hikers and cyclists is called the ‘chemin de la mine’. [...] pit-head with its railway and coal wagons, the lamp-room and the shafts. They go into a reconstructed mine to imagine conditions underground. Nearby, visitors see the workers’ houses and gardens of the 1920s

labour for an oil-shale mine at the end of the Second World War, functioned between August 1944 and April 1945. It was a satellite of Natzweiler concentration camp. Prisoners mined oil shale for fuel when [...] a historical trail opened to complement the exhibition that takes visitors to sites related to the mine and camp. A cemetery commemorating unnamed victims of the Bisingen camp is nearby.

facilities was built to transport the coal mined in the region. In 1992, 290 miners were killed in one of the worst mining accidents in the country. Turkey's first mining museum was opened in Zonguldak in 2016 [...] models of mines, documents and wall paintings, miners' materials and clothing, and much more. Integrated into the museum area and accessible to visitors is the training mine of the mining company that [...] of black coal mining from its beginnings to the present time, the basics of the topography of the coal basin and the formation of coal and fossils. A film introduces the history of mining. The museum's

of colourings ceased in 1855 after the discovery of ultramarine which displaced cobalt in paints. Mining continued until 1898. A foundation was formed in 1971 to conserve the remaining buildings, and its [...] visitor centre, with shops and restaurants on other parts of the premises. Visitors are able to tour the mine, 8 km. from the Blaafarveværket, together with Nyfossum, the home of the technical director, and Nymoen

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

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

The Flaschar’s Mine historic mine works date from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a time when the slate industry boom culminated in the area of the Low Jeseník Mountains. At the end of the 19th [...] there were fifty-two active facilities devoted to mining and processing slate reported in Silesian industry statistics. There are seven defunct slate mines registered in the location of Nový Svět (New World) [...] World) not far from Odry, where Flaschar’s Mine is also located. The tour circuit at Flaschar’s Mine offers approx. 400 m of open tunnels, several stopes and a ladder section installed in the 20 m tall

industries, customs and highlights Cornwall’s mining heritage. It offers anyone interested in the industrial history of Cornwall an opportunity to study mining survey maps, geology maps, photographs, newspapers [...] was restored and converted for this purpose. Redruth developed as a major centre of Tin and Copper mining and many domestic, social and educational buildings of the period can still be seen. The effective [...] many buildings now contributes to the regeneration of the town which suffered from the loss of the mining industry.

equipment used for the purification and distribution of drinking water. The works was established by the mining department of the Prussian government when Silesia was part of Germany. Drilling established that

1888, mining began in 1899, a Gluckauf miners’ association was formed in 1901, and a processing plant and a generating station to supply it with power were operational from 1903. The Bleicherode mines pioneered [...] ultimately applied to the rockets that launched the Sputnik in 1957. The potash mines closed in 1990, and parts of the mines and the processing complex have been declared industrial monuments. [...] Potash is a term used to denote a variety of mined and manufactured water-soluble salts of potassium and particularly potassium chloride, KCl (sometimes called Sylvite) and potassium sulphate, K2SO4. The

brothers in 1800 and objects from coal mines in northern France and iron mines in Normandy. The museum also features a video documentary on the history of the Littry mine and a reconstructed underground gallery [...] ordered the resumption of production, and mines in the area continued to work until the early 1950s. The museum, one of the first in France to be devoted to coal mining, dates from 1902, and provides a broad [...] the industry. It is housed at the site of the former Frandemiche coal mine. The excavated remains of the pit-head structures and mine shaft are on display. In the adjacent buildings are historical tools

fully mechanised. And yet nothing can avert the end of coal mining: neither the merging with Niederberg colliery to form the so called West Mine in 2002 nor the spectacular performance of Kamp-Lintfort miners [...] brand-new French-German Friedrich Heinrich Coal Mine stock corporation finally embarks on the construction of the colliery. Within a few years, a two-shaft mine with brickworks, housing estates, commercial [...] the final shift pulls in. Ever since, Kamp-Lintfort has been reinventing itself, with the former mining facilities at its heart. Because without them, the town would not even exist - without them and the

The history of the Ewald colliery began in 1871. Three mining contractors in Essen, one of whom Ewald Hilger, gave his name to the pit, set up the colliery in the south of Herten. After a thorny start [...] above all after the Second World War. For a time it boasted a workforce of over 4000 miners. Coal mining ceased here on 28 th April 2000. The site is marked by a number of imposing buildings from different

central electricity generating plant, the workshops and the pithead house – all fine relics of local mining history and now used for exhibitions, concerts, cabaret and the like. Nonetheless the main role here [...] went right from the start. Water kept breaking into the shafts and it took almost ten years before mining could begin on a regular basis. But in 1914 the pit flooded once more and the colliery was beyond

The German Mining Museum was set up in 1930. The underground mining gallery was built shortly afterwards to give visitors a more concrete idea of the technical framework of coal and ore mining. A new gallery [...] live, close-up demonstrations of various mining techniques. The equipment ranges from a mallet and gad to a fully-automatic disc shearer. But the German Mining Museum in Bochum is not content with machines [...] features, like the role of women in mining. The wide range of themes, presented over an enormous exhibition area of around 12,000 square metres, makes the German Mining Museum in Bochum the largest and most

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

Harchies is a mining community west of Bernissart, with which it has been combined for local government purposes since 1976. The mining museum was created in the years 1988-89 by a local man, Jeannot Duquesney [...] paraphernalia of coal mining, pumps, ventilators, depth indicators and tipping trucks. Perhaps the most unusual exhibit is a cage that was used for conveying horses down the shaft of a local mine. There are also [...] also displays of the equipment used in mine offices, of fossils and mineral specimens, and of mining art, including works by Ernest Dubois (1863-1931). Visitors taking refreshment in the museum restaurant

washrooms recall the activities that once took place here day and night for 150 years. In the Michal Mining Museum and Cultural Centre in Ostrava (Czech Republic) visitors can follow the daily routine of colliers

below Comblain-au-Pont. You would scarcely believe that the locality contains some of the most unique mines in Belgium. This was where some of the best sandstone in the region was excavated. It can still be [...] surprise at the end of the pit: an amazing panorama view over the Ourthe valley. The pit and its mining traditions are not the sole highlight in Comblain-au-Pont. If you want to remain underground a little

the underworld the mine guides tell the story of a so called Treasurer still haunting the place. Back to the surface, visiting the pit bank of the "Angel" shaft nowadays used as a mining museum, the one-hour [...] one-hour trip to the historical silver mine of Tarnowskie Góry appears to be like a glimpse into distant world: A world made of nested silver and lead mines dominating the Upper Silesian town for more than [...] to the mining building there is a heritage park of steam machinery where visitors can experience the time when steam-powered drainage pumps, winding gear and locomotives revolutionized the mining industry