What a sight! The long line of carefully built individual showers in the miners’ washroom appears to be never-ending. Here every man had his own cabin. The progressive features on the site are mainly due [...] are put in the appropriate mood by a documentary film showing aspects of the everyday life of the miners in the old times. The subsequent guided tour of the simulated galleries enables them to get a more [...] history. After that it is high time to take a walk along the colliers’ trail, which leads from the miners washrooms, via the lamp room and wages house to one of the huge pithead towers. And those who still
engines for draining mines while staying near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He returned to Sweden in 1726 and the following year erected the country’s first steam engine at the celebrated iron ore mine at Dannemora. It [...] It was unsuccessful, but the engine house still stands and is the focus of visits to the mine and to nearby Österby Bruk. Having returned to Sweden Triewald gave public lectures modelled on those of D
built in 1712 by the English ironmonger Thomas Newcomen. The value of engines in pumping water out of mines was immediately recognised and after 20 years about 100 were in use. Many inventors developed the [...] in Saxony. Continuing to work with Bückling, he built many beam engines to pump water from copper mines in the Mansfeld area and to power the salt works at Kötzschau, Schönebeck and Teuditz. Beyond Saxony [...] in North-Rhine Westphalia for the salt works at Unna near Dortmund in 1799, and the Bölhorst coal mine near Minden in 1803. In Brandenburg they worked with the Lauchhammer foundry. At Kołobrzeg (then in
railway facilities into museums. The Fortuna visitor mine in the woodlands north of Solms-Oberbiel near Wetzlar, Germany, was the penultimate iron ore mine in Germany to cease operations. This was in 1983 [...] the former Fortuna red ironstone mine is Hesse's first ERIH Anchor Point. Highlights such as the rope ride in the pit cage to a depth of 150 metres, the ride in the mine train and the large number of original [...] includes a geologist for the first time this year. He stands for the additional role of the visitor mine as a geo-information centre in the National GEOPARK Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus. Monfalcone, Italy's n
appointed Director of Mining Engineering in Sweden, with particular responsibility for the Falun mine, and visited mines in the Harz region in 1707. From 1700 he established a water-powered factory for the automated [...] as a mining engineer, by designing a water-powered hoist for raising barrels of ore from the copper mine at Falun in 1693 that attracted the attention of mining engineers from all over Europe. In the mid-1690s
coal mine and shipping business established by his grandfather on the rivers Ruhr and Rhine. After secondary school, Stinnes received business training in an office in Koblenz and worked as a miner at the [...] created a vast conglomerate. He was considered Germany’s ‘business Kaiser’, with control of coal mines, steelworks, shipping, power stations, hotels, newspapers and banks. It is believed at the time of [...] began studies at the technical university of Charlottenberg but for a management role in the family mines in 1890 following his father’s death. In 1892, Stinnes founded Hugo Stinnes GmbH, which became the
of high-pressure steam, and was responsible for some of the first steam locomotives. The son of a mine manager in Cornwall, he was developing a high-pressure steam engine by 1796, which drove a road vehicle [...] the condensing single-cylinder beam engine, the first of which was installed at the Wheal Prosper mine in Cornwall in 1811-12. High-pressure steam from a cylindrical boiler, with an innovatory internal [...] The efficiency of the engine justified its high initial cost, and it was widely used for draining mines and for pumping drinking water and sewage. Trevithick left England for Peru in 1816, hoping to build
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
employed 5,000 workers. She owned numerous coal mines that generated huge profits and in 1895 she bought more. At the same time she sold the zinc mines and smelters that Godulla had developed, as the zinc [...] and became one of the wealthiest women in Europe. Born Johanna Gryzik, she was the daughter of a miner who died when she was only three. When her mother remarried, her new husband would not adopt her as [...] churches and hospitals and built an orphanage. A relief fund was set up to support employees of the mines and steelworks, and a boarding school for the workers’ children was established in Bytom.
knighted in 1812. Explosions were a great danger in coal mines. They occurred especially when methane mixed with air was ignited by the candles miners used to light their work. In 1815, the Sunderland Society [...] after a disaster in north-east England killed 92 men. He began experiments in his laboratory to test mine gas. A few months later he presented a paper to the Royal Society and demonstrated a successful lamp [...] His lamp was also a warning device: the flame would change colour if methane was present, or if the mine was short of oxygen it would die down. Others had been experimenting with lamps and some claimed that
draining tin and copper mines in the West of England, and devised an effective automatic steam engine, the first example of which appears to have been set to drain a coal mines at Coneygre, Dudley, in [...] to thirty without such assistance’, and by a Cornish miner who commented: ‘Mr Newcomen’s invention of the fire engine enabled us to sink our mines to twice the depth we could formerly do by any other
exploited the seemingly inexhaustible deposits in the Troodos mountains in underground and open-cast mines and shipped the ore to all the important peoples of the Mediterranean. This trade was so profitable [...] the forests of Cyprus were chopped down to smelt copper, and mounds of slag piled up around the mines at Tamassos, Soli and Skouriotissa that can still be seen today in the Troodos Geological Park. Demand [...] content, and shortly before World War I the American Cyprus Mining Company reopened the ancient copper mine at Skouriotissa. The Hellenic Mining Company mined gold and silver ore for ten years near Mitseros
j was a Ukrainian banker and industrialist who created companies that developed large-scale coal mines, railways and steelworks in the Donbas basin in the late 19th century, making it one of the most important [...] under-developed Donbas coalfield. In 1879 he founded the Altschewskyj Mining Society, which opened mines for anthracite and became the third largest coal producer in the region. In 1895, he cofounded the [...] steelworks at Sartana near Mariupol. His Southern Mining Society, founded in 1898, took over coal mines at Kryvyi Rih and Kerch. Altschewskyj was an advocate for social causes, education and Ukrainian culture
bankruptcy in 1849. (The cobalt works and mines operated until 1893 and became a museum in 1971.) In 1835 Benecke and Wegner had purchased the Hassel iron ore mine and blast furnace in southern Norway, which [...] 1776, this was among the world’s largest producers of cobalt blue pigment. It consisted of cobalt mines, calcining kilns, a works to process the dyestuffs and a glassworks. Cobalt blue was exported widely
his father, coal mines, foundries and construction. In 1920, he was ennobled as the Marquis of Triano, taking the name of the Basque village where his ancestors had developed iron-ore mines. The RIALIA museum [...] Vizcaya (known as La Vizcaya) and built a steelmaking operation that integrated every process from mine to shipment. However, he died in 1900, when Victor junior was only twelve. Victor studied engineering
Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, for example. In the Ehrenfriedersdorf tin mine , visitors get to know the everyday life of miners in detail – starting with the ascent to the winding tower and ending with [...] with a maze of galleries underground. The "Stary Martin" (Old Martin) mine adit in Czech Krupka owns the longest lode of tin ore in Central Europe, and the Altenberg Mining Museum illustrates the background
The vast Kiruna iron ore mine In Lapland is operated by the Swedish mining company LKAB. The ore resource was known for centuries but remoteness and harsh climate prevented exploitation. Finally, surface [...] body to a depth of 1,365m. In 2014 work began to move the city 3km to avoid subsidence. The latest mine expansion uses remote-controlled machines and transport. Pre-booked visitors go to the Kiruna tourist
Development of the Joseph and Else shafts started in 1912 but was interrupted by war and most of the mine buildings were completed in 1924. Although mining stopped in 1966, today the shafts are used for the [...] winding-engine houses, a lamproom and a fire station. The baths has showers around a central hall where miners’ clothes were hung to dry on long chains. The space is brought to life by a sound installation with
