Transylvania formed part of the Habsburg Empire. It was supervised by the imperial mines officer Johann Frendl. In 1787 the mines became the property of the Habsburg government in Vienna. Extraction continued [...] substantially. From the 1960s, following the example of the mine at Wieliczka in Poland, the therapeutic qualities of the atmosphere in the mine were recognised, and facilities were provided for people with [...] in varied activities and if necessary receive treatment. The mine also contains a museum with multi-media displays and exhibitions of mining tools and other historic artefacts, together with a restaurant

pottery from Olari Horezu, notable in the early twentieth century for its high quality wares, and mining plant from the Carpathians including crushing mills and ore-washing equipment. The museum is the

Copper ores were discovered there in 1812. They worked until 1885, and attempts were made to continue mining in the 1920s and 1960s. The original entrepreneur was the landowner ‘Copper John’ Lavallin Puxley [...] launched in the mid-1990s whose objective was ‘to recognise, research, preserve and celebrate the rich mining heritage of Allihies’. A museum was opened by the President of the Irish Republic in May 2007 in [...] by their ancestors. One section of the museum deals with emigration to the United States after the mine closed in 1885. Allihies is set in one of the most evocative industrial landscapes in Europe. There

on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, Carnglaze is Cornwall’s only slate mine and as such, played an important part in the mining heritage of Cornwall. It was of course slate that roofed the industrial [...] underground tour to learn how the mine was worked, ending at the Underground Lake with its crystal clear blue/green water. Browse the comprehensive collection of minerals mined and quarried in the South West

the Société des Mines de Cap Garonne, who employed 60 workers, and extracted sulphates for acid production rather than ores. In spite of a railway connection completed in 1903 the mines were closed for [...] for copper and lead ores in local sandstone quarries and were subsequently granted concessions to mine. Extraction began in 1862. The first skilled miners were Italians but local men were employed on unskilled

The tin and iron ore mining of Eibenstock, a small town in the western part of the Ore Mountains, had almost come to a standstill in 1760, so that the plight of the local miners and their families far

be seen here today is white: potassium salt. You can see it for yourself in the Merkers Adventure Mine in the central Werra valley. Visitors are kitted out with clothes, a helmet and a lamp and a cage [...] equipment are parked in other locations and nearby a roomy underground museum brings the old potassium mine back to life. The high point of the journey underground is the fairytale grotto full of huge salt

Sweden’s most historically important industrial region, has its headquarters at the open air museum of mining, the first of its kind, established in 1938 by Karl-Erik Forsslund and Gustaf Bjorkman. The museum’s [...] the ways in which power was transmitted by wooden rods from waterwheels to operate pumps and other mining machinery. Other exhibits include drilling equipment, hand tools of many varieties and ore-dressing

united in 1898. Both have been associated with the manufacture of textiles over several centuries. Mining prospered in the area in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The textile industry

(ore mountains) in Saxony, near the border with the Czech Republic. It the early nineteenth century mining fell into decline as lodes of silver ore were worked out, and it was due largely to Ferdinand Adolph

), Director of the Division of Industry and Mining of the Congress Kingdom of Poland between 1816 and 1824, and chairman of the Board of Directors of Mining for the Kielce region. The charcoal-fired furnace

A miners’ colony of the Giesche mine, exceptional in Europe, with the unique atmosphere of a “garden-town”. It was designed by Emil and George Zillmann in the years 1906–1910. A few building quarters of

is 800 m. You can see here training workplaces connected with mechanics, electricity and securing mining excavations.

Richthofen (Wilson) shaft of the Giesche (today Wieczorek) mine from 1918 was designed by Emil and George Zillmann. After the closedown of the mine, it was adapted for a modern art gallery. Happenings, concerts

other surface buildings of the mine are well-preserved. Here the museum shows films illustrating the history of mining, enhanced by recordings of former miners, and the mine’s lamp room, the social centre [...] people lived there during the first six decades of the twentieth century when anthracite mining, commemorated at La Mine Image was the principal local industry. The extraction of anthracite in the region began [...] during the First Empire, and continued until 1956. The project to establish a museum at the former mine began in 1986. The museum now prides itself in being a ‘musée souterrain’ (underground museum) which

miners are hurrying towards their shift. In the busy assay office copper ore from the surrounding mines is checked and sorted according to quality. The whole place is buzzing with activity. The only exception [...] taverns and the decks and storage spaces of a sailing ketch. A journey deep into one of the many copper mines in the valley on a electric tramway leaves the deepest impression. Here the imposing underground son [...] effects give visitors a vivid sensation of the arduous and oppressive everyday conditions in the old mines.

designed by George Stephenson (1781-1848) to carry coal from Monk Moor pit at Black Fell and other coal mines in north-west Durham across the Team Valley to staithes at Jarrow on the south bank of the River Tyne [...] the valley of the River Team. The system passed into the control of the National Coal Board when mines were nationalised in 1947, and was scarcely altered until the late 1960s. Coal ceased to be carried

The Arigna Mining Experience in Co Roscommon offers an underground tour through some of the narrowest coal seams exploited anywhere in the world. Mining in the area began in the early seventeenth century [...] until 1838 using coke as its fuel, but coal mining continued after its closure, and it was only in 1990 that the last coal was extracted. The Arigna Mining Experience, located in modern buildings at the [...] can see an exhibition on the history of mining in the area, which poses questions about different sources of energy, past and future. It also shows how coal mining sustained communities in Co Roscommon during

(1763-1832). The museum occupies premises in the Estaházy palace alongside those of the Central Museum of Mining. It opened in 1983 and provides a comprehensive view of forestry, which ranges from specimens of

Shropshire Coalfield to Shrewsbury, the county town. Like the network of canals which served the mines and ironworks of the Coalfield, it was built to carry tub boats, rectangular vessels about 6.5 m. [...] opening of railways, but the wharf continued to be used for the despatch of coal and iron from the mines, furnaces and forges of the East Shropshire Coalfield and for the receipt of limestone for the ironworks