The underground extension of the mines matches the urban area of Munich. The Werra Potash Mining Museum displays the industrial, mining, and social history of potash mining in the Hessian-Thuringian Werra [...] departments: potash as raw material, geological conditions of the deposit, potash mining, processing and finishing, and mining and social history. [...] Kassel at the border of Hesse and Thuringia, in 1893 promoted the emergence of a still operating mining area with occasionally up to 30 pits and various potash plants processing the raw material to gain

total of over 300 kilometres in the region around Maastricht and Valkenburg. A broad expanse of coal mines grew up in the immediate vicinity of the marl area. Thus marl and coal played a significant role in [...] in the industrial history of South Limburg. As early as 1917 the first and only underground mining museum in the Netherlands was set up in the Valkenburg colliery, in order to give visitors an idea of [...] underground, and tell visitors about their turbulent working life. But visitors do not only learn about mining: they can also take a trip back in time to the long forgotten geological periods in the underground

around 20,000 metric hundredweights of copper. By mixing the copper with zinc-rich calamine ore, mined in the area nearby, they could produce brass, which was Stolberg´s number one export. Nowadays there

extreme south of the Netherlands had been gradually closed down because the region´s key industry, mining, had slowly become less and less important. The ZLMS took the initiative to reactivate some of the

Large-scale coal mining was the principal economic activity in the province of Asturias in northern Spain from the 1840s. Langreo, with a population of 43,000 is the fourth largest town in the province [...] confluence with the River Nalon. The whole valley is full of the evidence of past industries, with mines of many types, including adits, shafts and open-cast workings, railways, inclined planes, aerial ropeways [...] The reception area of the museum is at El Cadaviu station where there are displays of tools and mining equipment, historic photographs and audio visual programmes on the history of the area. Visitors

instruments. Some of its displays, particularly the reconstruction of the coalface of a 19th century mine from Hausham, Upper Bavaria, were amazingly advanced for their time. Oskar von Miller was largely

fluorspar was mined in the last decades until it was shut down in 1982. After that the mine was kept open until 1990 as a ventilation and material shaft for the fluorspar mine Fluorschacht. The mining museum [...] Glasebach mine in Harzgerode, a town in the eastern part of the Harz mountains, was first mentioned in a document in 1689. With interruptions, it was used for more than 300 years for ore mining, and fluorspar [...] shows underground the historical mining from the 17th to 19th century and in the above-ground museum the original and functional preserved facilities of modern mining from the GDR era. The guided tours

hand in the "Röhrigschacht" demonstration mine that was opened in 1991 in the suburb of Wettelrode in Sangerhausen. Visitors start their journey through the mine at one of the oldest pithead towers in Europe [...] more about mining methods from the earliest time to the present day from former mineworkers, sometimes with the support of loud historic equipment. It's a long and exciting history, for mining and processing [...] than 270 mining shafts in the region of Sangerhausen; indeed, in the Mansfeld basin there were more than 1000. The Röhrigschacht (lit: Röhrig Shaft) is situated in the midst of this historic mining area.

copper deposits in the Buhumir Mine, including malachite, bornite, lazurite and copper pyrites, were discovered in the mid-nineteenth century and were worked until 1965. The mine was not profitable in the 1920s [...] investment after the Second World War. Most of the surface buildings of the mine still stand. The workings were adapted as a visitor mine from 2012. Entry is now by an adit, but, for safety reasons, a new exit [...] the longwall system. The interesting geological features of the mine can be studied. There are annual celebrations of the Jihlava mining law of 1249 and of the feast of St Barbara, the patron saint of

until 1961. The restoration project began in 1991 and the mine was opened to visitors in 1996. There are displays about the history of gold mining in the galleries nearest to the entrance, after which visitors [...] eighteenth century less gold was produced and the emphasis turned to the extraction of arsenic ores. The mine was extensively modernised in the early twentieth century. It was undamaged in the Second World War

was one of the most dangerous mines in Europe, and the museum shows safety equipment and an exhibition about the mining disaster of 1941, when 187 died. In the training mine, visitors experience original [...] experience authentic replica workings built by the mining company for training purposes in the 1960s. The museum tells the story of mining in the region, first documented in 1434. It explains geology and displays [...] Dawną coal mine started in 1868 when Lower Silesia was German. After the Second World War it was operated by the Polish state coal company. It produced anthracite and refractory shale. It opened as a museum

began resources. Uranium ore was mined at Kletno from 1948 to 1953. The mine had 3 shafts connected to 37 kilometres of tunnels. Large quantities of waste were produced for a very small amount of uranium [...] Kletno was an area of mining for iron, lead, silver and copper from the thirteenth century. After the Second World War, due to the need of the Soviet Union for uranium to make atomic bombs, a search began [...] total. Heavy machinery was used in wide tunnels. Visitors can go into one for around 200 metres. The mine is most popular for its colourful minerals: the walls show veins of fluoride, fluorspar, amethyst

The deep and productive coal mines opened up in the early twentieth century in the Kempen region of Limburg province, where there had previously been very little industrial development, were for more than [...] from the 1980s. Winterslag pit, 4 km north-west of the city of Genk, was the first of the Limburg mines to open, in 1917, and was also the last to close, in 1988. It has been adapted as a cultural centre

central Sicily near Lake Pergusa. Mining of pyrites for sulphur began in the area in the early eighteenth century and continued until the 1960s. A unique feature of the mines is the presence of Celestine, [...] sugar refining and the manufacture of fireworks, and sometimes has a distinctive blue colour. The mining park was designated by law in 1991 and extends over 400 ha. Visitors to the park can see the remains [...] remains of calcaroni , of various types of furnace that were used for processing pyrites. Several shaft mines remains with a variety of steel headstocks that still stand. It is possible to venture for short distances

from its mines. The two steam engines at East Pool, alongside the main road between Camborne and Redruth, are amongst the most impressive monuments of the Cornish mining industry. The East Pool mine was worked [...] revived as a tin mine in 1834. At various times arsenic, tungsten and uranium have also been worked from depths of more than 550 m. It was amalgamated with the nearby Wheal Agar mine in 1897. A roof fall [...] beam weighing more than 50 tons. The East Pool mine closed in 1945 but the engine was retained until 1954 to pum water from the nearby South Crofty mine. The engine was bought by an American historian

Samson is a silver mine in the Upper Harz. It is part of the Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar World Heritage site. The mine began at the end of the Middle Ages and expanded from 1521. It [...] reopened as a museum as long ago as 1950. Visitors go to the wooden pithead building and into the mine. Underground they see the rope-operated drift and a wooden hoist wheel powered by a 12-metre diameter [...] century miners. A museum contains models, documents, geological samples and artefacts related to mining in the region, and another museum is concerned with canaries and their use to warn miners of bad

century mining activities at the Mechernich Lead Mine were well-known all over the country. Alone in 1882 there were almost 4,500 people engaged in pit work. And as late as 1952 the lead mine and its mills [...] constructed on the edge of the former mining area. Furthermore an old mining gallery has been converted into a visitors´ gallery, run by the Friends of the Mechernich Mining Museum. Here visitors can learn some [...] (lead ore deposits). The tour takes place in the Eifel region, in the galleries of the mining museum in Mechernich. Mining started here under the Romans, and since the 13th century the main product brought

railway transported both passengers and goods. In Alsdorf the GKB owned a branch line to the Anna I Mining Pit. The brickworks in Tüddern, in particular, needed coal for their production. But the railway

The region of the Turón Valley was one of the most important coal mining areas in northern Spain. Numerous abandoned mines still tell of the former importance of this area and the old machinery and facilities [...] museum. The best way to understand the mining landscape is to join a guided tour adapted for visitors. This will enable them to discover the primitive mountain mining activity and the “socavón de la Rebaldana” [...] Rebaldana” (a late 19th century mining tunnel restored by retired miners for tourism purposes), then continue along the “Via Verde” green hiking way that follows the old railway track. Visitors will then discover

Isidros. There are displays about the geology of the Asturias coal mining region, the estates of the Maqués de Commillas, the growth of the mining industry and working conditions in the local collieries. [...] Bustiello is one of the many mining villages in the province of Asturias, and is situated near Mieres, south of Oviedo, not far from Spain’s northern coast. It is a good example of industrial paternalism [...] paternalism. The village was built between 1890 and 1925 by the mining company Sociedad Huellera Española on the estate of the Maqués de Comillas. All the original elements of the village remain: the church, in