Calais Mining Region World Heritage site. It was built from 1856 to 1861 as a mining company settlement alongside the town of Bruay between 1856 and 1861. It is the oldest surviving planned mining community [...] Volta, Franklin and Faraday. The houses were of a good standard, with gardens and arranged in a grid. Mining ended in 1979. Many people left and by 2008 most of the houses were abandoned but arts initiatives [...] and an award-winning new building with interactive exhibitions about the history and future of the mining basin.

transportation, whose collections include motor cars and railway locomotives, geology, which covers mining of coal and minerals and oil extraction, and Croatians notable for their work in science and technology

Some of the large machines used in mining are displayed. The Bergschänke restaurant is a particularly popular part of the visitor facilities on the surface. Since the mine is still operating the opening times [...] present-day visitor facilities, was completed in 1901. Films and interactive displays show how the mine is worked before visitors are taken on a tour underground which lasts for two hours, extends over [...] times are sometimes varied. Forced labourers from a nearby concentration who were employed at the mine during the Second World War are commemorated in a permanent exhibition.

Clermont-Ferrand in southern France is the Musée de la Mine. It was opened in 1990 by former miners and supported by the local authorities. Coal mining began in the area in the 17th century. The site is the [...] steel frame with large windows. Near it are the 34-m tall steel winding tower of the pit and other mine buildings, including a pit-head baths and offices. The museum has 160m of authentically reconstructed [...] workings that visitors can walk through to gain an understanding of the life and operation of a coal mine. Mannequins show particular situations, such as coal-cutting by hand in narrow seams and making repairs

extracted in the area and made into pigments that were exported worldwide. Artefacts associated with mining, processing and marketing of ochre are displayed. Finally, the museum traces the clay industries

archaeological causes célèbres in the mid-1970s. Ironworking in the area began in 1758, and the principal mines and works of the Gutehoffnungshütte company were subsequently established there. The colony consists

coalminers in the Ruhr valley decided to do it for real – with deep-pit mining at a colliery called Neptune. Until then it was usual for mining galleries to be dug horizontally into the side of the rock face. [...] levels. This resulted in a huge increase in production. The old Nightingale mine in Witten was one of the first deep-pit mines on the Ruhr – a good enough reason for the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture [...] Visitors can walk along a 100 metre gallery and thereby return to the start of the region’s mining history when mines were small enough to get by with just a handful of pitmen. The main attraction in the engine

Hopewell Colliery is a working coal mine on a small scale. The Forest of Dean, on the border of England and Wales, has seen iron mining since prehistoric times and coal mining for hundreds of years. A few local [...] local people have long-established rights to open their own private mine in the forest. The guides at Hopewell Colliery are all experienced free miners. They take visitors underground for a short tour through

include a reconstructed mine lift and objects associated with the mine such as railway wagons, helmets, lamps and mineral samples to explain the history of electricity and sulphur mining in Sicily. Other buildings [...] photographs about life in the mine and house temporary exhibitions and conferences. Nearby are headframes, a processing plant and the village created to support the mine. [...] The museum is at the site of the Trabia Tallarita sulphur mine, about 7km west of Riesi on the Strada Statale 190 towards Sommatino. Central Sicily was the most important region in Europe for production

the industry came to an end in 1971 due to the growth in use of cheaper alternative materials. The mine was opened to the public soon afterwards. Tour guides take visitors underground on foot through the [...] splitting to make roof slates is demonstrated above ground. An exhibition shows fossils found in the mine and objects made from slate and slate waste. More adventurous visitors can book a diving tour in flooded

Bindweide iron ore mine opened in the 1830s. At its peak there were 900 miners but it closed in 1931. It became a mine for visitors in 1981. A visitor centre built in 2014 that introduces the geological [...] of iron. Another addition to the site is the Barbara Tower, a 22-m steel headframe relocated from a mine in the Harz Mountains that visitors can climb to enjoy the views.

Lignite or brown coal was mined in south-east German for 250 years until around 2000. At Hagenwerder, south of Görlitz, the last large-scale opencast mining machine for the industry is now a landmark. [...] excavator was made in 1961 by VEB Schwermaschinenbau Lauchhammerwerk and worked in the Phönix opencast mine in Altenburg. Visitors can climb up it to a height of 24m. A control room the size of a house stands [...] and smaller excavators. There is a walking trail around the lake, Berzdorfer See, where opencast mining once took place.

remains of mining and processing of iron ore. The 2.5-km trail begins at a car park in the forest south of Taurinya. Features along the route have been restored with interpretation panels. The mines were exploited [...] Prades railway opened in 1879 the Société anonyme des mines de Fillols-Taurinya laid railways to connect to Prades station and enlarged the mines. The operation closed down in 1928 but reopened for a few [...] few years 1958-62. Among the restored features to be seen are a mine entrance with an electric locomotive, impressive furnaces for roasting the ore, mineral hoppers, a railway incline and an abandoned

The mine opened in 1916, developed by the company Ardoisières Angevines de St Blaise. At this time, slate quarrying was at its peak in France and about 10 mines operated in the region. The mine closed [...] La Mine Bleue is a site where visitors go 126m below the surface to galleries in a mine called La Gâtelière. From the welcome building on the surface they travel with a guide on an original underground [...] d train used by quarrymen down a slope into the workings. Inside the mine, they walk around galleries cut into the solid rock to see how slate blocks were extracted and where waste was dumped. On the surface

the region. A few kilometres away at Gargas are the extraordinary orange-coloured tunnels of the mines of Bruoux, which supplied the factory.

Coal mining at La Machine became significant in the 17th century and the town took its name from a machine for operating the mines. The last pit closed in 1974. The impressive mining museum opened in 1983 [...] 1983 is in two parts – a museum in the former offices of the mining company and the preserved Glénons mine shaft about 400m away in Rue Paul et Auguste Couture. The extensive displays include images, models [...] models, life-size reconstructions, written accounts and artefacts. The director’s office and the mine’s archive of plans are on show. A spectacular collection of minerals and fossils is in original cabinets

one of the largest mercury mines in the world. At the end of the 18th century, no fewer than 1,350 miners worked here. The Idrija mercury mine, together with the Almadèn mine in Spain, was inscribed on [...] the oldest preserved mine shafts in Europe. The underground tour leads 1,200 metres into the mine's tunnels. Audio-visual presentations and figurative displays explain the mining methods used. In the Hg [...] in 2012. The history of mining is presented in detail in the Idrija Municipal Museum in Gewerkenegg Castle , including in the exhibition area "Five centuries of cinnabar mining". The castle was built in

and beach volleyball to an adventure farm. In a 63-metre-long mine tunnel, former miners take visitors back to the days of underground mining, and where coal freighters used to be loaded, an amphitheatre [...] Essen. As late as 1955, 4,400 miners were still extracting around 1.2 million tonnes of coal here. Mining operations ended in 1993. Just four years later, a national garden exhibition transformed the industrial

trail around the quarry. The visitor mine can only be visited as part of a guided tour. In 90 minutes, the visitors will see several mining areas, be shown mining equipment, ride a train and see the visual [...] The Kleinenbremenb Visitor Mine and Museum is located in the former Wohlverwahrt iron ore mine in Kleinenbremen, a district of Porta Westfalica. Originally a limestone quarry, iron ore was discovered here [...] in Kleinenbremen. From 1883 until the 1960s, iron ore was mined here in several shifts, first by hand and then with large machines. The mine workings were also expanded during the Second World War for

Viennese engineer Juan Jorge Graubner, who had come to Madrid aged 22. Graubner developed an existing mine for zinc ore and created a water-powered factory. The operation spread over a distance of 10km and