Wirksworth, principal town of the Derbyshire lead-mining district, and was also a textile centre, noted for the Haarlem Mill of 1780, perhaps the first cotton spinning factory in which steam power was

Visitors can climb ladders, crawl within a replica mine and get lost in a maze, and can also drive a large excavator through a simulator. The Temple Mine on the opposite side of the A6 main road is small [...] taking away fluorspar remain within the mine and visitors are offered the opportunity to pan for gold or lead ore. The Museum is the focus for the Peak District Mines Historical Society’s underground trips [...] The Peak District Mines Historical Society established its museum in the pump room of the former spa of Matlock Bath, which was immensely popular in nineteenth century after the opening of the Midland

Western Railway and was operated as a conventional branch line. Its purpose was to carry coal from mines in the Forest of Dean to Lydney on the Severn Estuary where it was loaded on to ships. It is easily

area of early workings. The Peak District Mines Historical Society has been responsible for conserving the remains of Magpie Mine, Derbyshire’s last working lead mine which is perhaps the best surviving example [...] now a field centre. Magpie Mine is usually unmanned but it is open to visitors, and from time to time guided tours are organised. The site is managed by the Peak District Mines Historical Society from the [...] example of a nineteenth century lead mine in England. It has a history of more than 200 years. In its early years lead ore was extracted from numerous fairly shallow shafts, all of which have now been capped

through in the very authentic simulated underground gallery, which is equipped with various aspects of mining, such as stalls, pit props, tramways and other equipment used underground. One of the many highlights [...] Steam winding engine which is now electrically driven. As well as many fascinating artefacts from the mining industry such as tools and equipment, the museum also houses a restored and unique gas tram, which

The complexes of multi-family housing for staff and inspectors of the former mine „Dębieńsko”, called familoki (family block), which survived in Czerwionka, are an extremely important and distinctive part [...] town of Czerwionka-Leszczyny. These housing complexes were built in stages between 1898-1916 as the mine developed and grew. As a cultural achievement, the housing was entered in the national register of

first shaft of what became the Glückauf mine was completed in 1895. Two years later a potassium chloride plant was opened nearby to process the mine’s products. The mine was extended in subsequent decades and [...] passed to a company that proposed to develop it as an adventure mine, something that would have been almost impossible in a less stable coal mine. Some rock salt is still extracted for application to icy roads [...] Ministry. After the Second World War Sondershausen was incorporated within the GDR and from 1947 the mine was owned by the land of Thuringia. It was employing 3,000 people in 1989, but that was its last year

in the east of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape WHS. The hill has a rich mining heritage and its ornate feature chimney, a reminder of its mining past, dominates the landscape for miles around [...] one of the county’s most impressive views. In the area tin, silver, copper and wolfram were mined and the mines and quarries date from the early 17 th up to the early 20 th centuries. There are very few

standard locomotives of the 1950s. The Swanage Railway Trust also operates the Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum at Norden station.

Reproductions of historic workings include ancient flint mines, medieval mines with narrow shafts and a large scale model of and early twentieth century mine that visitors can enter. Films showing miners at work [...] The Central Mining Museum at Sopron, 210 km W of Budapest on the eastern slopes of the Alpes, and 70 km south of Vienna holds the largest collection of mining artefacts in Hungary. It is located in one [...] work are shown, and the museum displays some large hydraulic machines used in mines of various sorts in the mid- and late-twentieth century.

Visitor Mine. Mining began in the area of St. Ingbert around 1771. At first the area was controlled by a local count, but in 1816 the state of Bavaria took over the pit and soon began deep-pit mining with [...] workers dwellings and a number of individual buildings recall the era of mining "in der Rischbach" in St. Ingbert. The St. Ingbert mining trail invites visitors to go in search of historic traces. On the narrow [...] metres to the south, the foundations for professional coalmining were created with the sinking of mining shaft I to the "upper site" in 1844. But there was still a problem of transporting the coal to St

obtaining medical qualifications, he was employed as a doctor at the mines in Ronchamp from 1946, and was well-known for his research into the mining disease silicosis. He was elected a member of the local authority [...] best known as the location of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut, completed in 1954. Coal mining in the area began in the mid-eighteenth century, reached a peak about 1900 when some 1,500 men were [...] authority in 1953, and through the 1960s urged the formation of a museum of mining. After proposals to locate a museum in the surface buildings of one of the collieries proved unavailing, a new building,

lignit-mining in Slovenia, originated in 1956-7, but the present museum in the old shaft (Stari jasek) was opened in 1999. Visitors are able to explore underground workings in one part of the mine, where [...] an underground canteen before going on to a second series of workings where more recent methods of mining, including hydraulic supports and mechanised cutters are exhibited. Exhibits on the surface include

including Bessbrook and Blarney, and some at Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhrgebiet, where one of the leading mining entrepreneurs was William Thomas Mulvany (1806-80), brother of the architect. The fortunes of the

of coal mining opened in 1988. It is called an open air museum, although most of the buildings stand on their original sites and have not been removed from elsewhere. The steel headstock of a mine is preserved [...] barber’s shop, a school and the mine’s power plant, pithead baths, lamp house and smith’s shop. Visitors are unable to see underground workings but an artificial show mines has been constructed. Large machines

Second World War uranium ore was mined as well as coal, but the industry has now entirely closed down. The Mining Museum in Pécs opened in 1981. It includes a replica mine, 400 m long, created in a former [...] Hungary. Mining for coal in the nearby Mecsek Hills began in the late eighteenth century, and in the mid-nineteenth century the Danube Steamship Company bought land to be used for large scale mining. After

the story of mining in the area between the rivers Sieg and Heller from prehistoric times until the 1960s, with displays of minerals, miners’ tools and lighting equipment and a replica mine. A 15 m high [...] Herdorf, on the River Heller 20 km south-west of Siegen, was the chief centre of mining for coal and iron ore in the Siegerland, a region celebrated for the production of iron and steel. The museum project

carry passengers, although for most of its existence its primary purpose was to serve the region’s mines and ironworks. In 1905 the line was taken over, with other standard and narrow gauge railways in the [...] motor buses for trains on many of its routes during the 1920s. The NBJV declined with the closure of mines and ironworks in the 1960s, the last ore train ran in 1974, and the company was taken over by the

after the castle that dominates the landscape. A museum of mining and local history was opened in the castle in 1956, but the area’s mining past is now displayed in the Tauerngold Austellung (Tauern Gold [...] Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse, the main road route through the mountains was one of the most important mining centres. In 1983 Döllach-im-Mölltal was amalgamated with the neighbouring village of Sagritz, and [...] a house of 1561 that was once the home of a goldsmith. Its displays describe the history of gold mining in Carinthia through Roman, Celtic and medieval times, and include many artefacts from those period

and there are spa facilities in the town. The first documentary evidence for salt mining at Turda dates from 1271. The mines were extensively worked in the sixteenth century. Their outstanding feature is [...] Rudolf mine, 42 m deep, 50 m wide and 80 m long, which was the last to be worked in Turda. Access was by 172 steps but visitors can now enter it by an elevator. The main feature of the Terezia Mine where [...] largest city in Cluj province in northern Romania and has for many centuries been famed for its salt mines. Many of its workings are exceptionally well-preserved. Some were opened for tourists in 1992, and