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information on ERIH membership. 19 February 2008: Founding meeting of the ERIH association Zollverein Mine WHS Essen. Germany ['ERIH' - 'European Route of Industrial Heritage'® is registered as European Union

industry and agriculture to replace Germans called up for military service, particularly in coal mining, which was vital to the war effort. According to international law, prisoners of war could be used [...] groups from the USSR itself were accused of disloyalty. Prisoners were mainly used in coal and ore mines, the timber and fishing industries, and on large construction sites, such as the construction of the [...] forced prison labour was used in virtually all industries. Notorious were the open-cast lignite mines, where extremely hard physical labour was required in all weathers. But even more dangerous was work

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established the pattern under which many iron companies were managed both in Britain and overseas. Mines were leased from landowners, and the coal, iron ore and limestone that they produced went to blast

Russian steam locomotive which was set to work on a railway with cast-iron track that served a copper mine. He received little encouragement from his employers and the locomotive was eventually replaced by

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 [...] 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.

family’s Orconera iron ore company and developed interests in other sectors, including banking, lead mining, papermaking, coal trading and shipping. He founded the Vizcaya Bank in 1901 and the shipping company

iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining and railways but his principal significance was as a founder of the steel firm Altos Hornos de Bilbao [...] family business with his father and his older brother Juan Maria . The family invested in iron-ore mines and in 1846 built a blast furnace at a forge they acquired at Guriezo in Cantabria. After their father

and Valencia to consolidate cooperation. The family invested in iron-ore mines in Triano and Somorrostro, which they leased to mine operators. In 1846 they built a blast furnace at Guriezo in Cantabria After [...] iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining and railways but his principal significance was as a founder of the steel-making firm Altos Hornos [...] blast furnaces fuelled by coal. To further integrate their operation they made contracts to lease mines and a railway concession with international companies in which they took shares: Orconera and Fra

years he was the leading shareholder. He expanded the company’s interests quickly, taking over a mining company and opening a Bessemer steelworks. In 1886 he merged his business with the Prague iron company [...] to concentrate his production. In 1897 he became the majority shareholder in the Austrian Alpine mining company, Österreichisch-Alpine Montangesellschaft. In all his operations he developed vertical i

to be interested in mining, at first because he wanted coal for his breweries. He opened a coal mine at Kostolac, about 50 km east along the Danube. This attracted him to other mining opportunities and he [...] institute for mine exploration at Glogovica. In 1903 he became the owner of mining rights at Bor in the east of the country. After spending so much on exploration he could develop the mine only by creating [...] one fifth of the shares himself. The mine at Bor became the largest copper producer in Europe and continues to operate today. Weifert went on to explore gold mines successfully and operate a porcelain

where his father was a blacksmith. He studied nearby in Bilbao and Vitoria and then at the School of Mining Engineering in Madrid. In 1896 he began designing hydroelectricity projects in the Basque country

at the iron-ore mining centre of Musques. He studied at Bilbao and Madrid, where he graduated in law. In 1881 he formed the partnership Aznar y Sota with his cousin Eduardo Aznar to mine iron ore and ship [...] Llano was a Basque industrialist who made a fortune in the partnership Aznar y Sota, at first by mining iron ore and later in connected businesses across Spain in maritime transport, shipbuilding, railways [...] ship it to steelmakers in Britain. They created mining companies at Setares in Cantabria, Sierra Alhamilla in Almeria, Ojos Negros in Teruel and Segunto in Valencia. They bought ships to transport their

and Roebuck gave up his partnership in 1768. In the 1760s Roebuck took a lease on estates with coal mines and a salt works at Kinneil, about 10 km east of Carron, though he could raise enough capital to develop

By 1870, 1,350 employees produced an annual output of 10,000 tons of pig iron. Coal and iron ore mines were acquired in several regions. After the introduction of the Thomas process, Stumm-Halbert began

different sectors and locations – a steelworks and coal mines near Katowice, a department store, a salt-importing business and a mill in Warsaw, lead mines at Olkusz, an agricultural machinery works and foundry [...] to manage the family business. He sought new industrial opportunities and in 1823 he opened a coal mine and a factory for smelting zinc ore at Jaworzno, between Kraków and Katowice. In 1825 he sold some

machinery and watercourses. In 1752, he created an ingenious solution to flooding problems at a coal mine in Lancashire, using a tunnel with an inverted syphon and a waterwheel pump. In 1759, he was appointed

organised the movement of plant and research staff from Peenemunde to the area around the potash mines at Bleicherode in the spring of 1945. He moved with colleagues to Oberammagau in the Bavarian Alps

represented Boulton and Watt in Cornwall, where they provided numerous steam engines for tin and copper mines. He erected engines, maintained them and improved their performance. He helped frequently with projects