around the life of Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railwayman who by chance secures employment in a coal mine called Le Voreux (the voracious beast), and La Bete Humaine (the beast in man) of 1890, a tale of [...] of tortured love, which focuses on the life of a railway engine driver. Zola visited coal mines in the course of writing the first, and made several footplate journeys while researching the background for
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
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
transport coal from mines of La Grand-Combe to Nîmes. He went into partnership with his brothers and others as the promoters of the new railway under the title of the Compagnie des Mines de la Grand Combe
provides not only architectural highlights but also an authentic insight into the hard labour of the miners. Complementing this, the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park illustrates the technology and workflow of [...] panoramic view from the 40-metre coal bunker is one of the highlights of a visit. The ERIH member Ewald Mine | Hoheward Landscape Park has also undergone profound changes: one of the Ruhr region's most productive
its closure in 1993. The museum holds collections of tools, machines, oil lamps, dented helmets, miners’ footwear, drills and surveying equipment, together with several locomotives. It also holds documents
partly near-surface coal layers. Now, iron mills, foundries and coke plants joined the numerous mines. Since then the immense industrial plants have largely disappeared. Only the award-winning Black Country
However, the Slovenian export in greatest demand was quicksilver from Idrija. By the 18th century, the mines and smelters, in operation since 1509, had become the world’s largest quicksilver producer. At about [...] emergence of glass manufacturing, an industry that still flourishes today, in addition to the coal mines. Also at this time, the Habsburgs developed Trieste into a major trading port. As handling volumes [...] deployed in Ljubljana. Foreign-controlled corporations acquired the iron works at Jesenice and the coal mines in Trbovlje. However, agricultural and forestry products such as food, leather, wood and paper remained
Sweden has very few coal deposits. Until the end of the 17th century, copper from the long-established mine in Falun also played an important role: it enabled Sweden to finance its bid to become a major power [...] in Alingsås, and the polymath engineer Mårten Triewald erected the first steam engine at the iron mine in Dannemora. However, both enterprises failed and Sweden remained a poor, agrarian country for a [...] constructed to the north, including the ore railway from Luleå to Narvik in Norway, which connected the mines to both the Baltic and the Atlantic. Education policy also played an important role: complementing
images and films about Torviscosa, including design drawings by the first architect, Giuseppe De Min. A large-scale model shows the town in the mid-1960s. Other models show plants owned by the company
lets, arts venues and gardens. A visitor centre in Rue Branly has two parts – a group of recreated miners’ homes and an award-winning new building with interactive exhibitions about the history and future
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
which opened in 1884 and ran from the booming coal mines in the Donez Basin via Yekaterinoslav (later Dnipropetrovsk, today Dnipro) to the iron-ore mines of Kryvyj Rih. In the 1860s and 70s, an enormous [...] enormous industrial landscape took shape in this region, termed “Donbass” for short, as ever more coal mines, iron works and settlements were established. The heart of this region was the city of Donezk, which
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
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
routes. 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
has joined the ranks of ERIH World Heritage Sites such as Völklingen Ironworks and the Zollverein Mine and Coking Plant." ERIH President Prof. Meinrad Grewenig, also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the
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
