Senghenydd is a mining community 15 km north-west of Caerphilly, and 25 km north of Cardiff, which was the scene of the worst mining disaster in British history. The Universal Steam Coal Co discovered [...] good coal seams in the vicinity in the 1890s and proceeded to open a mine that was exceptionally deep for its time. There was an underground explosion on 24 May 1901 when 83 miners were below ground preparing [...] miners, which was probably caused by faulty electrical equipment igniting methane gas. The Senghenydd mine was taken over by the Lewis Merthyr Company but coal production ceased in 1928, although it was not

with a tiny population. In the early 1840s the Furness Railway opened a wharf from which locally-mined iron ore could be taken away by sea, chiefly to ports on the River Mersey from which it travelled

the last mines closed in 1991 the principal mineral extracted was pyrites, used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, but there were also workings for tin ore. The Parque Minero de la Unión (Mining Park at [...] at La Unión) is an open air museum commemorating the mining industry whose principal feature is the mine called the Mina Agrupa Vincenta which is registered as a property of cultural interest. Visitors [...] Mining flourished in the province of Murcia, on the Mediterranean coast in south-eastern Spain, from Roman times. The Carretera del 33 (Way of the 33) is a road that links the community of La Unión with

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

washing floors was powered by a 10.5 m diameter waterwheel, is now a museum. It includes the only lead mine in North-East England that is regularly open to the public. The museum is celebrated for its facilities

heart of the Luxemburg ore basin. Not so long ago the area was full of industry: collieries, open-pit mines and blast furnaces. Nowadays the region bears witness to a century of industrial history in idyllic

principal sources of iron ore in Europe, and because the government dictated that ore could only be mined by companies who smelted it within the Duchy, some large furnace complexes were built in the region

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

von Reichenbach was responsible for constructing a pipeline to carry brine, the product of solution mining’ to the works at Bad Reichenbach, which was renewed in 1960. Visitors are able to tour the old workings

project that brings together more than 50 venues and 150 cooperation partners. For one night, disused mines and blast furnaces, dumps and coking plants, gasometers and steelworks become the backdrop for street

Toymaking has for centuries been one of the principal manufactures of the Erzgebirge, the ore-mining region of Saxony, and since Johann Friedrich Hiemann took locally-made toys to the fairs at Leipzig

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

preservation of the area’s mining heritage. The surviving monuments include some 70 buildings, including the home of the director of the mines, some workers’ cottages, a bakery and the mine workshops, and there [...] discovered in the area by Ole Husun in 1745, and copper mining was commenced by the company called Fredrik Gaves Verk three years later. The mines proved profitable and continued in production until 1878 [...] ropeway some 34 km. long. The principal mine ceased working in 1941 but some smaller-scale extraction continued until 1993. The Stiftelsen Folldal Gruver (Folldal Mines Trust, or SFG) was established in 1988

every aspect of mining for metallic ores from the middle ages until the twentieth century. There are comprehensive collections of tools, lamps and mineral samples, and some historic mining models of pumping [...] pumping systems, winding towers and other large-scale mining installations. An open air section includes a stamp mill and other machines moved from mines that have closed. The museum serves as the starting [...] The museum of mining in Clausthal-Zellerfeld was established in 1892 by Adulf Achenbach (1825-1903), a Saarlander who followed a varied career in the service of the Prussian government in several parts

importance in the region: coal mining, railways, bicycle-making, motorcycle manufacture, lace-making, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, tobacco and printing. The mining display includes a reconstructed [...] The Elizabethan mansion Wollaton Hall was built in 1588 with money from early coal mining. The house is open to the public and contains a natural history museum. In the stables behind it is the Nottingham

the sites of silver mining that form the Rammelsberg Mine, Old Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management World Heritage Site. It is a gallery 8.8 kilometres long to ventilate mines and take away water

useful building material. The German Pumice Museum is in the Volcano geopark, where pumice has been mined since the mid-nineteenth century. The stone made it possible to produce lightweight concrete blocks [...] museum is set out like a block-making works of the post-war period. It shows mechanical excavators for mining the pumice, a travelling crane, a mill for making the concrete, and drying racks for the blocks,

Rabensteiner Stollen is a former coal mine in the Harz region of Germany. It has been open to visitors for underground guided tours since 1981. Coal was mined here for a short time starting in 1737 and [...] and then began again in the 1830s. The mine was never very successful and after several attempts to improve production no more coal was mined after 1949. On the surface, visitors can see a collection of [...] a working railway, conveyors, the waste dump (where people often find fossils), and a café. On the mine tour visitors see the cable-hauled underground railway, the coal seams and the different practices

ore mines in Lorraine were gradually shut down: the pit in Neufchef was closed in 1989 after operating for 150 years. But thanks to the initiative of former workers it has survived as a visitor mine. Around [...] Around the turn of the 20th century, iron ore was mostly mined by hand in narrow low gangways, with the help of gunpowder. The miners only began to use compressed air hammers to dig out the ore in inclined [...] pit pillars. 35.000 pit workers in the Lorraine area, their faces stained yellow by the "minette", mined out the ore which was then hauled to the surface in wagons by horses; later by electric locomotives

might be in the future, which gives visitors the chance to walk inside and control jet boosters or mine moon rock.