brothers in 1800 and objects from coal mines in northern France and iron mines in Normandy. The museum also features a video documentary on the history of the Littry mine and a reconstructed underground gallery [...] the industry. It is housed at the site of the former Frandemiche coal mine. The excavated remains of the pit-head structures and mine shaft are on display. In the adjacent buildings are historical tools [...] over more than two centuries. Coal seams were discovered at Littry in 1741 and the Compagnie des Mines de Littry, formally established in 1747 produced fuel for potteries and glass works, for the boilers
word ‘copper’ comes from the name of the island. One large mine is still operating – the Skouriotissa copper mine of the Hellenic Copper Mines company. The itinerary begins at either Lemesos or Larnaka [...] minerals, information about the landscape, copper miner’s tools, ingots and artefacts made with copper over the last 5,000 years. Nearby is the Skouriotissa mine, where copper has been mined across four thousand [...] Larnaka and crosses the island to Katydata. The landscape is full of ancient spoil heaps and opencast mines. To visit the Museum of Mining Heritage at the village of Katydata you must make an appointment at least
The mine opened in 1916, developed by the company Ardoisières Angevines de St Blaise. At this time, slate quarrying was at its peak in France and about 10 mines operated in the region. The mine closed [...] La Mine Bleue is a site where visitors go 126m below the surface to galleries in a mine called La Gâtelière. From the welcome building on the surface they travel with a guide on an original underground [...] d train used by quarrymen down a slope into the workings. Inside the mine, they walk around galleries cut into the solid rock to see how slate blocks were extracted and where waste was dumped. On the surface
light of the pit helmets. Once Montevecchio was one of the most important ore and zinc mines in Europe. Today the mines constitute the Historical Mining Park of Sardinia, which in turn is part of the UNESCO [...] Piccalinna mine display a 120 hp hoist capable of lifting 20 cubic metres of ore per hour. A guided tour through the Renaissance-style "Palazzina della Direzione" reveals the former residence of the mine founder [...] gallery tour and a visit to a foundry and various workshops, another tour explores the Sant'Antonio mine, which - typical of its time - hides a winding machine, compressors and a power station behind neo-Gothic
Beringen (B) be Mine Flamish Mining Museum Berlin (D). German Technical Museum Birmingham (GB). Museum of the Jewellery Quarter Blaenavon (GB). Iron Work World Heritage Site Blegny (B). Blegny Mine WHS Bocholt [...] Masson Mills Museum Dortmund (D). Hansa Coking Plant Dortmund (D). Zollern Mine LWL Industrial Museum Dortmund (D). Zollern Mine LWL Industrial Museum Dresden (D). Museum of Transport Duisburg (D). North [...] Krayenberggemeinde (D). Merkers Adventure Mine Norrköping (S). Museum of Work Odense (DK). Danish Railway Museum Oslo (N). Norwegian Technical Museum Ostrava (CZ). Michal Mine Papenburg (D). Meyer Shipyard Peenemünde
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
Prades railway opened in 1879 the Société anonyme des mines de Fillols-Taurinya laid railways to connect to Prades station and enlarged the mines. The operation closed down in 1928 but reopened for a few [...] to be seen are a mine entrance with an electric locomotive, impressive furnaces for roasting the ore, mineral hoppers, a railway incline and an abandoned barracks to house the miners. [...] forest south of Taurinya. Features along the route have been restored with interpretation panels. The mines were exploited from ancient times but in 1803 they were taken over by the ironmaster Raymond Rivals
"Even though the mine officially ceased operations in 1983," she stated, "mining has shaped the region and its people for many generations. Fortuna Mine was literally a lucky thing for the whole region [...] sponsoring association, Geowelt Fortuna e. V., "whose commitment and passion made Fortuna Mine what it is today." The mine's outstanding value for industrial heritage is enhanced by its role as a geological [...] National GEOPARK Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus. Highlights of the site such as the ride in the pit cage, the mine train and numerous original machines provide visitors and students with exciting impressions and
it began in 1996 and even included the construction 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 [...] 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 60 galleries that are mostly unknown or not accessible. Only the P
Falun Mine. Once the world’s largest copper mine and today the heart of a unique historic industrial landscape, which was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. A path meanders around the mine and [...] formerly used to drag the ore with a rope winch to the surface. More than one thousand years of the mine’s history are displayed in the local mining museum. Most spectacular is the coin cabinet with probably [...] visit is to descend into the 67 metre deep gallery and underground chambers, which took the Swedish miners centuries to dig out of the rock. The manor houses built in the area demonstrate that mining was
preserved mine at Harrachov operated from 1957 until 1992 in the mountains on the present border of the Czech Republic and Poland. It opened as a museum in 2003. The minerals extracted at the mine included [...] barytes, galena and quartz, which had varied uses in the chemical and metallurgical industries. The mine had a vertical shaft and seven galleries with over 20 km of tunnels. The tour extends for around 1 [...] on the surface are samples of minerals, tools, safety equipment and models and displays about the mine’s history.
the management of the mines. The Eschweiler area became part of France during the Napoleonic Wars in 1794. The family took opportunities under French law to reorganise the mines and join them together [...] buy the share in the mines of her two sisters so that she would have full control. With the area now part of Prussia after the end of the war she successfully won permission to mine new seams. Production [...] Christine Englerth was a businesswoman who developed coal mines in the early nineteenth century in the Rhineland, on the border of Germany and France. She was born at Düsseldorf in 1767. Near the end of
reached a peak in 1967 but ended in 1974 due to international competition. Former miners created an association to preserve the mine. Visitors enter riding a working railway with an electric locomotive and go [...] Finstergrund opened as a 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 [...] 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 be seen in the walls of the working chambers. Nearby above ground is
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 for miners designed by Barreiros Leal in a modernist [...] 1963. 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
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 the history [...] 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
Near Clermont-Ferrand in southern France is the Musée de la Mine. It was opened in 1990 by former miners and supported by the local authorities. Coal mining began in the area in the 17th century. The site [...] steel frame with large windows. Near it are the 34-m tall steel winding tower of the pit and other mine buildings, including a pit-head baths and offices. The museum has 160m of authentically reconstructed [...] workings that visitors can walk through to gain an understanding of the life and operation of a coal mine. Mannequins show particular situations, such as coal-cutting by hand in narrow seams and making repairs
Bindweide iron ore mine opened in the 1830s. At its peak there were 900 miners but it closed in 1931. It became a mine for visitors in 1981. A visitor centre built in 2014 that introduces the geological [...] of iron. Another addition to the site is the Barbara Tower, a 22-m steel headframe relocated from a mine in the Harz Mountains that visitors can climb to enjoy the views.
capitalists who were investing in collieries, notably the Hibernia mine in Gelsenkirchen and the Shamrock mine at Herne. Mulvany brought skilled miners from Britain into his collieries, and was particularly successful [...] Ruhrgebiet, in part by securing the improvement of transport facilities. At Gelsenkirchen he built some miners` housing with the curving roofs topped with tarred calico that were characteristic of the cotton-spinning [...] original company although he later returned as chairman of the board of directors of the Shamrock mine. In 1866 he founded Preussische Bergswerkes- und Hutten-Aktiengesellschaft (the Prussian Mining and
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 [...] 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 timber ore-stamps. As well as seeing [...] the tunnels and end in Montecatini’s centre and the church of Santa Barbara, the patron saint of miners in many countries. The site is managed by the local authorities.
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 [...] operating a power-station control desk. A viewing platform can be visited separately at the lignite mine 27km away at Żłobnica.
