visitor mine in 1982. Lead and silver mining around Wieden in the Black Forest began in the 13th century and continued, with some breaks, until the early 19th century. In the early 20th century, mining started [...] steel industry. Mining for fluorite at Finstergrund reached a peak in 1967 but ended in 1974 due to international competition. Former miners created an association to preserve the mine. Visitors enter [...] history and techniques of mining during the tour. Visitors see the mineral veins, up to 2m deep, methods of drilling and blasting and the transport of the ore out of the mine. Many different minerals can

lignite was formed, seeing remains of plants and animals from the mine, including an ancient forest and a mammoth. The history of the Bełchatów mine and power plant are also set out and visitors can try operating [...] is the largest electricity generator in Poland with 40 power stations and two lignite (brown coal) mines. Its Bełchatów lignite power station is one of the biggest generators in the world. The company’s [...] Visitors take a choice of audio tours for adults and children and learn about the formation and mining of lignite and how electricity is generated through play, models and graphics. They walk through

have been located under the same roof for over 80 years. In accordance with the Iron Library's name, mining, production, and processing of metals were the original focus of the collection. Since the founding

546-km iron-ore line built between 1888 and 1903 from the Gulf of Bothnia at Luleå to the iron-ore mines around Kiruna and the Norwegian sea at Narvik. It also shows material from elsewhere in the north

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 mining began in [...] 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

can be said to be the home of the aerial lift for passengers, with over 100 still operating. While mining ropeways existed earlier, the first for passengers were built in the 1890s. The first in Switzerland

The mining experience at Tytyri offers visitors the opportunity to explore spectacular underground caverns created by large-scale limestone mining which was begun by the company Oy Lohja AB in 1897. From [...] extraction ceased in 1956. The museum of mining opened in 1988. The complex now comprises more than 60 km of tunnels, some of them 110 m below the surface. Mining by the company Nordkalk Oy AB continues [...] and to Sweden, Poland and the Baltic states. The Finnish lift (elevator) manufacture Kone uses the mines for testing and is in the process of installing Finland's fastest elevator as part of the visitor

given its own locomotives and drivers. It was kept busy by products and goods for the nearby coal mines until it was forced to close in 1969. One year earlier the DGEG was set up as a private organisation

hundreds of slate quarries. In the 19th century the slate tiles on almost every roof in Britain had been mined and cut by Welshmen.The National Slate Museum in Llanberis gives visitors a vivid impression of their

The "Sistine Chapel" of mining heritage lies 50 metres below the surface of Almadén: the gallery of San Andrés. Visitors of the Mining Park are able to reach it by taking a miner's cage down into the former [...] former cinnabar mine of the village. Tunnels and drifts that are centuries old lead them to a huge domed hall, 13 metres high, with the reconstruction of a majestic wooden horse-gin in its centre. Once [...] the surface for its further processing into mercury. You want to follow this process? Just let the mining train take you to the Park's well-restored surface buildings: the metallurgical furnaces where the

museum is based in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Schacht (the Queen Augusta mine), which was sunk to a depth of 260 m in 1869. From 1946 the mine was named after the philosopher Karl Liebknecht. The museum was e [...] Coal in the area around Oelsnitz, 25 km south-west of Chemnitz was mined on a large scale between 1844 and 1971, although some had been extracted by farmers from their own fields in earlier times. Some

of silver in the eastern Alps. The Habsburg emperors on several occasions took the mine into their own hands. The mine became increasingly difficult to work, and after ventures between 1783 and 1885 seeking [...] operation ceased in 1963. The mine workings extend about 3 km into the mountains over a width of about 2 km, but is now flooded. Visitors to the museum can explore a show mine, opened in 1958, and on the [...] The silver mines at Oberzeiring, 16 km north-west of Judenburg in the Aauern Mountains, were worked for more than a thousand years and for several centuries in the late middle ages formed the most productive

l Park of Sardinia in Italy. It was here, in the mines of Montevecchio on the west coast of Sardinia, that one of the most important ore and zinc mines in Europe was once located. Visitors can follow five [...] five guided tours to see how metal ores were mined here around the mid-19th century. Not far away are the Masua mines with the port of Flavia , which is built into the local cliff and from which the Belgian [...] with ore using conveyor belts. The Sala silver mine , an ERIH site in Sweden, possibly represents the future of the European zinc industry. Although mining in Sweden's once richest source of silver, which

heritage of Central Hesse. Another example is the smelting and forging day at the Fortuna visitor mine and ERIH Anchor Point in Solms, which, with three bloomery furnaces specifically put into operation

The theme of this year's edition of the festival is "Art (in) Industry". Indeed, INDUSTIRADA draws many exciting connections between the two sectors. One of the outstanding architectural achievements

in Langreo, the Samuño Valley Mining Ecomuseum in Ciaño and, of course, the two Anchor Points of the Regional Route, the Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón and the Sotón Mine in San Martín del Rey. The latter [...] latter welcomes visitors with an exciting tour leading to 556 metres below ground – in full mining gear with alternate underwear, overall, helmet, lamp and breathing device. The ERIH Board met on 27 and

market and is also hosting its current exhibition "Glass Art from Bohemia". At the Hessian Brown Coal Mining Museum in Borken, guided tours below and above ground provide an insight into the everyday working

the Luxembourg mining and steelmaking district: the coexistence of industrial heritage and nature worth protecting. Highlight of the ERIH Anchor Point National Museum of Iron Ore Mines in the small town [...] town of Rumelange, bordering neighbouring mining regions of Lorraine and Saarland, is the exciting ride on the mine train that leads 580 metres into the mountain. For almost 150 years, from 1824 to 1964 [...] , is illustrated by an industrial plant that, in the 19th century, ranked among the largest coal mines in neighbouring Belgium: Grand Hornu , whose vast English garden city-style workers' estate and monumental

festival inside the festival is provided by the MIND WORLD programme in the Mining Technology Park, a 5.4-hectare former open-cast mining site showcasing historic machinery and automotive technology. During the

and reveals the traces they have left in the image of the town to this day. Programme of the Rhine-Mine Days of Industrial Heritage