iron and paper industry. In 1689, Creutz was granted the privilege of building an ironworks by a mining college. At the turn of the 20th century, wood processing developed alongside iron production, first

good condition. Nowadays the colliery near Beringen in Limburg (Belgium) is the site of the Flemish Mining Museum. Visitors are put in the appropriate mood by a documentary film showing aspects of the everyday [...] Finally, the exhibition in the visitor centre puts the whole experience in the context of regional mining history. After that it is high time to take a walk along the colliers’ trail, which leads from the [...] energy, can then pay a visit to the neighbouring working class housing estate, complete with its mining cathedral.

The Asociación Cultural Meuseo Minero (Cultural Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in [...] several locomotives. It also holds documents relating to mining and a collection of minerals. Guidance is provided to the monuments of the mining industry, open-cast pits, calcining kilns, ore-washing equipment [...] equipment and ropeways. The museum encourages research into mining operations and mining culture, and operates a children’s section where painting, crafts and other activities are encouraged.

"Heritage Trail", bringing to life the history and technology of what was once Europe's largest coal mine. What was it like when the rhythm of gigantic machines and conveyor belts determined the lives of

From the second half of the 19th century onwards, coal was mined industrially in underground mines, but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg [...] illustrates the profound changes that industrialisation has brought to society, culture and nature. Coal mining plays a particularly important role here: Two steam engines are demonstrated in operation. A glass

control, power, and ventilations facilities used in the mine. A vertically running coal seam and a wall chaser illustrate how the coal was mined. Back to daylight, those who are still fit may join the

work of mine rescue services and the history of mining disasters. Also on display are scale models of opencast processes, winding gear, limekilns and the surface buildings of the Humboldt II mine in the [...] This mining museum is sited at the former Julius III lignite mine, 30km north of Most. It was established in 2003 by the Association of North Bohemian Miners in collaboration with the Most museum to show [...] show the history of mining in North Bohemia since the middle ages. Julius III operated for 120 years from 1881. The headframe is intact together with the shaft building and part of the coal preparation

company employed 14,000 people at several mines in the area. Mining began in ancient times but expanded with capital investment from the 1920s. The Spoluka mine was worked out by around 1972 and opened [...] The Spoluka mine in the town of Madan in the Rhodope mountains produced a wide range of economic minerals: lead, zinc, gold, silver, copper and cadmium. It was operated by the Bulgarian-Soviet company [...] tracks and waggons, safety equipment and pneumatic systems. A vertical shaft, ventilation chimney and mine yard are also preserved. On the surface are displays with models, historical equipment and images

who want to walk further can take a hiking trail in the hills to explore remains of the iron-ore mines and earlier furnaces.

visitors right in the middle of the largest surface mining of Central Europe. Starting from the valley of the small Styrian town Eisenerz the ore mine rises like the steps of a huge pyramid, surrounded [...] half kilometres into the maze of tunnels beneath the Erzberg ("iron mountain"). Down here there was mining of iron ore, too, as is impressively demonstrated by an 800-metre circular trail. An audiovisual

the west of Porto produced anthracite from the 1790s until the 1990s. The museum of the São Vicente mine explores the history of coalmining in the region. It is in the Vila Verde, an accommodation building [...] It contained reading and games rooms, a dining room, bathrooms and bedrooms for over 50 miners. The mine closed in 1970 and the building was in use by the community and a museum from 1989. The museum was

This settlement was estab­lished in the years 1860-1867 for the workers of Gottessegen mine. The owners of the mine were industrialists from the line of the Donnersmarcks, who also founded the settlement

on of a mine train for visitors known as “Austria’s smallest mine train”. A facility of the mine above ground shows objects found underground and further exhibits illustrating Radmer’s mining history. [...] Copper has been mined in the Radmer valley since the Bronze Age. Between 1590 and 1620 Radmer was one of the most important Alpine copper mining regions. In 1855 the mine was closed, leaving a total of

visitors follow the miners below the surface and, with the help of historic equipment, learn how mining developed between 1937 and 1964, the time when Serbariu was an active colliery. The original winding

open staircase. From up there, the panoramic view reveals a landscape where former open-cast lignite mines have been transformed into attractive lakes. In the museum itself, visitors breathe the smell of pressed

case: here, in southwestern Belgium, is the 19th century heart of one of the country's largest coal mines. The founder of this neoclassical complex, which includes a workers' residential area with over 400

copper mine of the Hellenic Copper Mines company. The itinerary begins at either Lemesos or Larnaka and crosses the island to Katydata. The landscape is full of ancient spoil heaps and opencast mines. To [...] self-drive itinerary of copper-mining heritage. Cyprus was the largest supplier of copper to the ancient world. Even the word ‘copper’ comes from the name of the island. One large mine is still operating – the [...] and artefacts made with copper over the last 5,000 years. Nearby is the Skouriotissa mine, where copper has been mined across four thousand years.

The lead and silver mines of Lavrion, on the Greek mainland south of Athens, were important in classical antiquity and in more recent centuries, and were worked in the 19th century by a Greek and a French [...] established by the Lavrion Studies Society (EMEL) in 1986 commemorates the work of the geologist and mining engineer A. Kordellas (1863-1909). The museum, in a building of 1873 built by the Greek company, [...] ore-washing complex, displays 115 different metals, along with evidence of industrial processes, mining tools, lamps, lead ingots and slag specimens. Housing built by both the companies remains, as does

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 deep storage of waste [...] brought to life by a sound installation with oral testimonies. Exhibitions show the techniques of mining and potash processing in the region using models, photographs, tools and equipment. A collection

Caporciano copper mine dates back to prehistory and the Etruscan era. It reopened in the fifteenth century and in the nineteenth century it was for a time perhaps Europe’s most extensive copper mine, with 35.5 [...] the winding gear. The director’s office is brought alive by the mining company’s original documents, payment registers and plans of the mines. There are also remains of processing buildings and some surviving