community Løkken Verk has developed during more than 300 years of mining industry. The ore in the Løkken field was discovered in 1652 and the mines put into operation in 1654. Later this find proved to be one [...] years copper was the main product of the mines, followed by a period where both copper and sulphur were extracted. Finally copper, zink and silver were the Løkken Mines products. It was not until the start [...] of the 20th century that an industrial-scale mining fully developed. The architect Christian Thams was the initator of the Orkla Grube-Aktiebolag (Orkla Mining Company), and he started one of the largest

history of mining going back 10,000 years to the Neolithic. Milos Mining Museum opened in 1998 in a purpose-built building on the waterfront with three floors of displays. Neolithic mining on the island

1912 the state mining authority erected 23 dwelling houses along with a school and a café-kitchen. From 1918 to 1935 mining in the Saar region was the responsibility of the French mining authority. In 1921 [...] Göttelborn pit coincided with the zenith of industrialisation. In 1887 the Imperial Prussian Mining Authority began to mine coal here. As early as 1751 the Saarbrücken Prince Wilhelm Heinrich had nationalised [...] ton of coal was mined in the year 2000. The dormitory house, the "premium" house and not least the workers’ housing estate were at the core of the housing policies of the Prussian mining administration

combined corn- and oil-mill, as well as several steam pumping engines from metalliferous and salt mines. Early electrical equipment includes two dynamos supplied by the British company Brush in 1882, as

The Dannemora mines, from the 15th century until 1992 produced ore that was low in phosphorus and sulphur, suitable for making iron well-suited for steel-making. Visitors can take a guided tour of 40

Coal mining around Hrastnik in the Sava region of central Slovenia began in 1804 and was stimulated by a link to the Austrian Südbahn (southern railway) in 1849. Glass making in Hrastnik began in 1860 [...] high quality table glass and lighting products. The glass industry, as well as the associated coal mines and chemical plants, is well illustrated in the town museum which was established in a former elementary

French and British enterprises) began large-scale activities in the region, especially in the areas of mining and iron and steel production. They were joined at the end of the 19th century by a huge number of [...] been turned into industrial museums to recall the history of the last 150 years. They include: • The Mining and Industrial Museum in El Entrego • The Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón • The Railway Industry

technical advance which made them particularly manoeuvrable. The copper of course came from the ore mines of Mynydd Parys. At the time almost all copper came from Mynydd Parys. Global exports meant that the [...] sole British dry dock made exclusively of natural rock. Another circular trail takes you past the mines of Mynydd Parys with its yawning abysses and ancient machinery. All this with stunning views over

salt in the chandelier light of underground chapels, the world's largest wooden mining machine, a luxurious 19th-century mining railway for royal visitors, miraculously shaped salt columns and crystals as [...] development of salt mining from simple wedges and pickaxes to monstrous electric drills, and the "Miners' Route", an adventurous expedition to hitherto inaccessible places of the mine. Unsurprisingly, the [...] the Wieliczka Salt Mine is listed as a World Heritage Site, as is the neighbouring historic castle with its unique collection of salt shakers and a vaulted basement that traces local salt production back

Middle Ages, and the oils were systematically extracted from the mid-eighteenth century until 1970. Mining began in 1745 under the direction of Louis Pierre Ancillon de la Sablonnière. The first refinery

diamonds they mean coal which was once mined in huge quantities before being taken off to the markets. Nowadays “Lady Vic” is the headquarters of the Scottish Mining Museum, where visitors can get an insight

Pozo Julia mining shaft started in the year 1947. This three-story vertical shaft reaches 275 meters in depth was accessed through a headframe with an elevator to transport both people and mining shuttle [...] while also representing a technological breakthrough in the Spanish mining sector. The coal reserves were exhausted in 1991, the mine was closed down and the miners were laid off. In 2007 the municipality [...] shuttle cars. It was in this mine, in 1962, that the brush-based winning machine was the first used in Spain, a modern piece of machinery for extracting coal that increased yields and reduce the number of staff

Katzenberg Mine with the museum of the Cockerill Mine, the adjacent nature reserve and the Nature Conservation Centre Ellergronn is a particular jewel with a very rich history. The Katzenberg mine dates back [...] collection also includes several fossils found during mining. Spread across the area, visitors can marvel at the hanging room, a forge and mining vehicles. [...] the industrial heritage for future generations. Today, one of the renovated houses used as a small mining museum where miners’ tools are displayed, among which the drills are particularly noteworthy. Various

the first Carlist war in the 19th century, the mines were controlled by the armies, and war prisoners from Zerain prison undertook the hard work at the mines. Apart from iron, lead was also extracted to [...] of the mines was transferred from powerful local families to an English company, The Cerain Iron Ore Company Limited. Around 1932 exploitation passed to German hands. The Germans worked the mines until [...] continued with the activity until the mines finally closed in 1951 because of their low profitability. The Iron Mountain preserves lots of interesting vestiges of the mining activity: underground galleries,

(1860), workshop (1922) and warehouse (1930), used as the Mining Museum from 1980. The Mining museum is unique technical museum of coal mining in Serbia, but it also presents assets and social history [...] interpretation of social history and industrial culture. Coal mine complex is interesting mixture of living history and still existing contemporary mining. Historically the most important part of the complex consists [...] Senjski Rudnik, established in 1853, is Serbia’s oldest active brown coal mine and the oldest preserved industrial heritage site. Located in eastern Serbia, 150 km southeast of Belgrade, this small town

provides information about visiting the mining heritage of the region by car or on walks along well-marked trails, some of them on old railway lines. There are many mining sites with tall engine houses, shafts [...] Lead mining was an important industry in the area around Linares in Andalucia. It began in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After 1849 it developed with rail transport and new investment to become [...] become one of the most important lead producing regions in the world. British mining entrepreneurs introduced miners and technology from Cornwall, especially Cornish steam engines to pump water and raise

Tax in 1831 increased opportunities for manufacturers. While tallow chandlers in market towns and mining communities made tallow candles by dipping, enterprising manufacturers developed technology for

New Birmingham, but he lacked capital and his plans were not realised. The Mining Co of Ireland, formed in 1824, established a mine at nearby Mardyke where they built a Cornish engine, whose engine house [...] of which was used near the pitheads for domestic fuel, lime-burning, malting and brickmaking. The mines in the Slieveardagh Hills between Kilkenny and Cashel, Co Tipperary, produce anthracite, that was [...] house remains, and 25 terraced houses for their workers. By 1841 the company worked three mines employing 400 people, and new developments continued after the Famine of 1846-49. Distinctive brick ‘steeples’

from the Visnes mines. The mining museum is located in the restored home of the first director of the mines, Charles Defrance, born in Metz in 1839. Displays tell the story of the mining community in Visnes [...] the vicinity in 1865, and a company was quickly established to work mines which were equipped with the most modern technology. The mine was lit by electricity from 1870, drilling by compressed air was introduced [...] copper smelter was established on the sea shore in 1872, but worked only until 1887. By that time the mine was less productive and it closed in 1894. Four years later a new company established workings some

The industrialisation of Saxony is based on mining which already started in the 10th century, thus creating capital and early technological expertise – a history that is particularly told by historical [...] a selection of 51 sites, including exciting museums as well as active plants. Leading sectors are mining, textile industry, vehicles and transport, food and beverage, and the printing industry. Outstanding