rooms dedicated to explaining the prehistoric mining activity (gold, copper and lignite), Roman gold mining during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD and modern mining in the municipality. [...] Although today gold is still being mined using industrial methods (in both Bueinás/Boinás, council of Belmonte de Miranda and in Carlés, council of Salas), the sport of gold panning is becoming increasingly [...] in Navelgas (Tineo), located in the old Casona Capalleja, enabling visitors to appreciate how gold mining activities have developed in the region of Asturias, together with information about the significance

Asturias was one of the most important coal mining regions in Spain and the museum at El Entrego, 3 km south of Langreo, provides evidence of the role of the mining industry in the 19th and 20th centuries [...] winding machines, steam engines and locomotives, and a display explaining the use of explosives in mining. A lift from the machinery hall is the starting point of a 40-minute tour that takes visitors through

The underwater mine continued working until the Cantabrian Sea partially flooded it in 1915. Currently, visitors can enjoy a museum with modern exhibition facilities and visit the mine's vaulted brick

important century for the mining of iron ore and magnesite, for the manufacture of machine tools, and from 1948 for the East Slovakian Steelworks. The museum includes an underground mining display, and an energy

It was built in 1920s and it is a complex of buildings and equipment of the Concordia mine. Due to the revitalization and preservation of historic buildings – today, it looks as in the times of its heyday

The site dated back to 1903 is a part of the mine funded by Prince Hugo von Hohenlohe zu Öhringen. The mine closed down in 1996. There are machines and equipment left in the power plant, and among them

The site of the coal mine at Noyan-d’Allier is preserved by an association of friends that began in 1988. The mine was built in 1920 and coal production finished in 1943. The buildings were large and efficient [...] railway for 1.8 km around the site and visit reconstructed underground workings. Galleries show mining tools and a typical kitchen for a miner’s family in the 1930s.

the workers here are faced with an incomparably larger task: cleaning up and re-cultivating the old mining topography in the Geisel valley and developing it into a recreational area for tourists. Water plays [...] man-made lake in Germany. It is intended to cover the deep scars left by 300 years of brown coal mining without, however, wiping out the past completely. The region once enjoyed the reputation of being [...] also has a rare value since it is one of the last remaining architectural witnesses to regional mining history. A part of the works hall, which bears the name of a nearby spoil pit, was used for repairing

Sokolov previously known as Falknov nad Ohři, is a town in the mining region of northern Bohemia. Coalmining in the area began in the mid-eighteenth century and was stimulated by the opening of railways [...] chemical industry became established around Sokolov on a substantial scale from 1927. A museum of the mining region was established in 1960, and is now located in a chateau in the Renaissance style built in [...] to show the importance of industry in this part of Bohemia and has exhibits relating not just to mining and chemicals but also to the manufacture of fine porcelain, glass bottles and musical instruments

Museum of Lead Mining is set in the picturesque village of Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland. A visit to the Museum can include a trip down the 18th century lead mine, a drift mine set deep in [...] in1750, 1850 and 1910. At the Visitor Centre, discover a fantastic display of rocks, minerals, gold, mining and local artefacts. Explore the Miner’s Library – the second oldest subscription library in Europe [...] Britain: Wanlockhead Beam Engine, which was built in about 1870 to pump water from the Straitsteps lead mine beneath it. It was in action for about 40 years, until around 1910.

a.m. and 5 p.m. during the days of travel and offers insights into the working world of the early mining small iron industry. In this Kotten, built around 1900, special knives are still ground manually

Harzvorland area around Hettstedt, Sangerhausen and Mansfeld was once a flourishing mining area. The first copper slate was mined here in 1199. In the following centuries the area developed into one of the most [...] heavy-metal sites in Germany. In 1880 the Mansfeld mining railway took over responsibility for the increasing goods transport between the coal mines and the metal works. It also carried the miners and

in the mines along its route. It incorporates several conserved industrial heritage sites including the Route du Feu at Blegny, the Bois du Cazier Mine at Marcinelle, le Grand Hornu, the mining museum [...] The trail incorporates the tracks that miners once followed from their homes to the pitheads of the mines where they worked, and the lines of mineral railways that once carried away coal. The pits have developed

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

photographs illustrating the miners way of life, the poignant story of the children underground and early mining equipent displayed in a realistic setting. This is supplemented by several outdoor exhibits including

The mines around Castelnuova dei Sabbioni, 35 km south-east of Florence were Italy’s principal source of lignite in the twentieth century but are now exhausted. The Santa Barbara Mine, worked by the electric

di Cornia and aims to give visitors an understanding of mining and the metallurgical industries from the Etruscan era to the present. The mines in the region principally extracted lead ores but also some [...] visitors can see the highlight of the park, the deserted medieval village of Rocco San Silvestro, a mining and ironworking community of the tenth and eleventh centuries.

The mines around Monte Amiata in the province of Sienna were one of Europe’s principal sources of cinnabar, the ore from which mercury is obtained. The park displaying the monuments of the industry was [...] was established in 2002. The adjacent museum uses film footage to show working conditions in the mines, and has exhibitions of tools and clothes. Visitors can also listen to the testimonies of former miners

human mining culture of Amiata mountain. The didactic underground route “Galleria Livello VII (Tunnel level VII)” presents a typical mining tunnel, where representative workplaces of six mining phases [...] can be visited on foot or by an electrical original mining train. The Clock Tower “Torre dell’Orologio” houses the historical museum about the mining park. [...] riches sources of cinnabar, the mineral from which mercury is obtained. While there is evidence of mining from prehistoric times onwards, large-scale workings took place between 1897 and the early 1970s

The Siele Mine, like that at Abbadia San Salvatore, was used to extract cinnabar, the mineral from which mercury is obtained, from deposits within Mount Amiato, an extinct volcano that rises to a height [...] century. A village accommodating miners was laid out in the early years of the 20th century, and the mine prospered due to heavy demand during two world wars. It ceased operation in 1973, but trails within