University. Among the witnesses to mining, the visitors’ educational mine “Himmelfahrt Fundgrube”, which belongs to the Mining Academy, should be mentioned. The “Reiche Zeche” mine provides an opportunity to explore [...] Freiberg metal ore mining from the 14th to the 19th century in thematic rides. The “Alte Elisabeth” mine presents some still functional mining technology – and an organ! This too is part of mining and it is not [...] Extensive mining led to the extraction of rich ores, not only silver but also lead, zinc and copper. In addition to numerous mines and iron works came the foundation of an electoral mint and the Mining Academy

for Coal Mining Culture Fluminimaggiore. Su Zurfuru Mining Site Guspini. The Mines of Montevecchio Iglesias. Masua Mines and Porto Flavia Iglesias. Museum of the Arts of Mining Narcao. Rosas Mining Ecomuseum [...] rich in mineral resources. Mining was practised here for several thousands of years. Its history started in paleolitic age with obsidian mines and kept on with ore and coal mining trought the Roman Empire [...] Spanish domination and the era of the Industrial Revolution until the last mines closed at the end of the 20th century. Former mines and their remains are located all over Sardinia and very often they are

iron ore had been mined for two millennia. Mining expanded under the Republic of Venice. It was modernised in the 1930s and ended in 1972. The Schilpario Mine, in a park named after mining engineer Andrea [...] lamps. In 2008, Ski-Mine bought the nearby Lupi mine in Valbondione and the iron furnace of Fusorio at Gavazzo. Later they took on Marzoli Mine in Pezzaze and the Sant'Aloisio Mine in Collio and in 2016 [...] Andrea Bocelli, is preserved by the Ski-Mine cooperative, which was set up by enthusiasts in 1997 to present mining heritage. All visits are by guided tours booked in advance. Trains carry visitors 200 m to

industry. The mining museum reveals 150 years of mining history in the Berguedà district, the uses and applications of coal and the way of life of those who lived around the mines. A mining trains takes [...] Around the upper reaches of the Llobregat river there are many mines which have riddled the mountains with their galleries. The mines of Figols and the surrounding area were for long the source of the [...] takes visitors inside the galleries of the Sant Romà mine where they can experience, in the original setting, what work was inside the mine. The museum presents an interesting audivisual display, a miner's

The Krupka mining landscape is part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region World Heritage site, where metal mining started in the twelfth century. Starý Martin (or Old Martin) was one of the most important [...] important mines in Krupka. In 1864, Schiller and Lewald excavated the Martin gallery into the Lukáš tin ore vein, which at 2 km was one of the longest in central Europe. Tin was mined in the Starý Martin [...] area until the 1980s. The mine opened to the public in 2000. Visitors have access to a half-kilometre-long gallery cut through rock, where they learn about the history of the mines, methods of roof support

on 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 exhibits illustrating Radmer’s mining history. [...] Copper has been mined in the Radmer valley since the Bronze Age. 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

facilities was built to transport the coal mined in the region. In 1992, 290 miners were killed in one of the worst mining accidents in the country. Turkey's first mining museum was opened in Zonguldak in 2016 [...] models of mines, documents and wall paintings, miners' materials and clothing, and much more. Integrated into the museum area and accessible to visitors is the training mine of the mining company that [...] of black coal mining from its beginnings to the present time, the basics of the topography of the coal basin and the formation of coal and fossils. A film introduces the history of mining. The museum's

of Askersund. 1 km from the mine, which is still active today, is the Knalla mine, which was in operation until 2004. Since 2016, an exhibition mine was operated in the mine, the underground section of [...] zinc, lead, copper and silver have been mined and enriched since the second half of the 1850s. At that time, the Belgian company Vieille Montagne built the mining facility and accommodation for the miners [...] buildings above ground continue to house a mining museum, which offers guided tours of the site and operates a 500-metre-long narrow-gauge railway line around the mine site. The museum's exhibition hall houses

Waterschei mine, one of the seven mines in the Kempen coal basin, had been in operation since 1924. A total of 72,453,000 tonnes of coal were mined on the levels between 560 and 1208 m depth. The mine was closed [...] 000 sqm main building, former miners have set up the Waterschei mining depot. It preserves machines and tools that were used at the mine above and below ground. The exhibits, a collection of historical [...] closed in 1987. The former 93-hectare mine site is being developed according to a high-quality concept in terms of architecture, environmental quality and sustainability into "Thor Park", a commercial area

preservation of the area’s mining heritage. The surviving monuments include some 70 buildings, including the home of the director of the mines, some workers’ cottages, a bakery and the mine workshops, and there [...] discovered in the area by Ole Husun in 1745, and copper mining was commenced by the company called Fredrik Gaves Verk three years later. The mines proved profitable and continued in production until 1878 [...] ropeway some 34 km. long. The principal mine ceased working in 1941 but some smaller-scale extraction continued until 1993. The Stiftelsen Folldal Gruver (Folldal Mines Trust, or SFG) was established in 1988

the Ore Mountains, tin was already being mined in the 16th century. Later, tungsten ores and lithium mica were mined. Today, it is especially worth visiting the mine “Vereinigt Zwitterfeld zu Zinnwald” with [...] ter Weitung”. Those looking to combine exploring the mining history of the eastern Ore Mountains with a scenic experience can hike the 40 km mining trail from Krupka (Czech Republic) through Altenberg [...] Zinnwald and back over the border to Dubi. Because mining was also at home in the Czech part of the Ore Mountains. The location is part of the Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří World Heritage

The underground extension of the mines matches the urban area of Munich. The Werra Potash Mining Museum displays the industrial, mining, and social history of potash mining in the Hessian-Thuringian Werra [...] departments: potash as raw material, geological conditions of the deposit, potash mining, processing and finishing, and mining and social history. [...] Kassel at the border of Hesse and Thuringia, in 1893 promoted the emergence of a still operating mining area with occasionally up to 30 pits and various potash plants processing the raw material to gain

the mine’s 120th anniversary. The project became part of the OKD Mining Museum at Ostrava in 2001. Visitors are able to explore a show gallery that extends 130 m into the Homola hill, to see mining machinery [...] large coal mine dating from 1874 with shafts extending 527 m below the surface that ceased operation in 1997. The decision to develop a museum on the site was taken as early as 1993 when the mine was still [...] machinery from the early 20th century and to admire the mine’s imposing headstock and winding gear. They can inspect the mine rescue station and the rooms where the miners changed into their working clothes

short mine-shaft. Guides who worked in coal mining before it ended across Germany in 2018 provide tours. Visitors can try techniques for themselves. Recklinghausen was one of the important coal-mining cities [...] training mine for the coal industry was created to demonstrate varied conditions and situations in a safe way – it therefore feels less controlled and more authentic than many ‘real’ preserved mines. In the [...] Ruhr. The tunnels used by the training mine were created as underground shelters during the Second World War in the spoil tip of the Recklinghausen II coal mine, which continued working worked until 1972

worked by compressed air. The mine was formerly part of the South Condurrow Mine that was closed in 1890, but re-opened as a training mine by the Camborne School of Mines, who used it until the mid-1970s [...] The surface buildings at the King Edward Mine are the most complete of any tin-mining site in Cornwall, and include a calciner, a buddle house, a steam winding engine house with an adjacent boiler house [...] volunteer group was established in 1987 to restore the buildings and present them to the public. The mine is now managed by a consortium including representatives of several local heritage groups. The Mineral

copper mine of the Hellenic Copper Mines company. The itinerary begins at either Lemesos or Larnaka and crosses the island to Katydata. The landscape is full of ancient spoil heaps and opencast mines. To [...] self-drive itinerary of copper-mining heritage. Cyprus was the largest supplier of copper to the ancient world. Even the word ‘copper’ comes from the name of the island. One large mine is still operating – the [...] and artefacts made with copper over the last 5,000 years. Nearby is the Skouriotissa mine, where copper has been mined across four thousand years.

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

fluorspar was mined in the last decades until it was shut down in 1982. After that the mine was kept open until 1990 as a ventilation and material shaft for the fluorspar mine Fluorschacht. The mining museum [...] Glasebach mine in Harzgerode, a town in the eastern part of the Harz mountains, was first mentioned in a document in 1689. With interruptions, it was used for more than 300 years for ore mining, and fluorspar [...] shows underground the historical mining from the 17th to 19th century and in the above-ground museum the original and functional preserved facilities of modern mining from the GDR era. The guided tours

I mine in Heerlen, which was the last Dutch coal mine to close in 1974. The first coal was mined here in 1898. The museum included the shaft hall, the winding tower and the winding machine house. Since [...] Coal mining in the Limburg region ended in the 1960s and 1970s. To preserve this history, the Dutch Mining Museum was opened 40 years later. It was initially located at Shaft II of the Oranje Nassau I [...] islands' are set up like in a department store to tell the story of the mining era in Limburg. The ground floor is dedicated to mining and the miners. The first floor tells of the prosperity that the coal

of the mines. Two types of visit are organised: one ‘standard’ visit and another one known as ‘mine in depth’. The first includes a visit to the Interpretation Centre-Parketxe and to the mining gallery [...] The mining galleries of Arditurri are one of the few which have been worked continuously for 2000 years. At present times, the surroundings of the mining land have been recovered after more than 20 years [...] Asturiana de Minas gave up working the wealthy mines of Arditurri in 1984. These galleries are open to the public and can be visited. This visit to the heart of the mines is seen as a journey through time engaging