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
"lost places": guests are allowed to enter otherwise forbidden areas and locked rooms of the Ewald mine. The Henrichshütte Ironworks in Hattingen also opens its doors for night-time explorers. Music attractions
very different events throughout the region from 1 to 11 September. A tour of the "Christine" slate mine in Willingen, for example, takes visitors into the underground history of regional mining, while they
the port of Halmstad in south-west Sweden in the early nineteenth century. Richardy came from a prominent family – her father was the mayor of Halmstad, Albrecht Friedrich Richardson. Nevertheless, unmarried
is best known through their books, Water Towers (1988), Blast Furnaces (1990), Gasholders (1993), Mine Headstocks (1997), Cooling Towers and Grain Elevators (both 2006).
well as rituals and traditions relating to music, food, sport and festivals. Pigeon fancier's clubs, miners' choirs, football teams and their fan culture, canteens and pubs, regional crafts and recipes have
later "Départment du Nord", coal fields were discovered in 1720 - by the end of the century, the mines already employed thousands of workers. However, widespread industrialisation did not take off - poor [...] In Lorraine, the Hayange steelworks expanded and when coal deposits were discovered in 1858, new mines were built. The traditional methods of paper production around Angoulême and near Annonay were mechanised [...] process was used to eliminate the troublesome phosphorus from the "Minette" ores found there. New mines sprang up, and in 1878 construction of a huge blast furnace group began in Uckange. At the same time
European, and also global, dimension of industrial development. Smaller objects may be exhibited in a prominently display case while larger objects may be located in the open air. Information boards will explain
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
was born in 1802 in the mining region of Långban in central Sweden. His father, Olaf Ericsson, was a mine superintendent until 1810 when he moved to Forsvik and became director of rock blasting for the c
(1802-48), whose origins were at Bazeilles near Sedan in Lorraine, gained control in 1836 of the mines and ironworks of Le Creusot in Burgundy, established under royal patronage with English technology
raising capital by establishing a joint-stock company. In 1870 he went into partnership with SA des Mines du Luxembourg et des Forges de Saarbruck, which was run by the Belgian/Luxembourgish industrialist [...] raising capital by establishing a joint-stock company. In 1870 he went into partnership with SA des Mines du Luxembourg et des Forges de Saarbruck, which was run by the Belgian/Luxembourgish industrialist
infrastructure of this impoverished country was in a pitiful state. The few exceptions included the mine in Senjski Rudnik on the southern slopes of the Carpathian mountains where Serbian mining traditions [...] World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Serbia The History of Serbian Mining (pdf) Bor. Copper Mine Serbia was part of the 'Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia', which disintegrated since 1991
technical progress throughout Europe affected the Norwegian mining industry. The traditional copper mines in both Røros and Løkken switched to mining pyrite (sulphur gravel), which was in demand for the [...] paint industry produced a brilliant white. Even in faraway Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean, coal mines were opened. Finally, Norway's most important resource provided the final, decisive push for indu
"Hallstatt", because the german syllable "Hall-" goes back to the greek word salt. In the Hallstatt mine people already chiselled big chunks of rock salt from the walls in the 14th century BC. Between 800 [...] leaching. Presumably it was used for the first time in Hallein in Austria's Salzkammergut: in the mine a space carved out of the salt rock was filled with fresh water which absorbed the salt from the [...] pure potassium salt are to be found in a long stretch from east to west across Germany. The salt mines there can be recognized from far away by their whitish-grey mountain-like spoil heaps, which still
Although this invention lightened miners’ physical labour, it introduced a new stress: noise. Furthermore, the noise of the machines often made it impossible for miners to detect the cracking sound in gallery [...] ventilation were not put into operation for purely economic reasons. Fresh air was not only needed by the miners underground, it was also necessary to reduce the levels of explosive pit gas. For this reason experiments
systems were made by other companies, such as Henderson of Aberdeen, Scotland. They became common in mines, quarries and construction projects for minerals and waste. Ropeways could span wide distances and
