Mining Culture Educational and Research Network

The visit to the Mine Gianna is an ideal in-depth itinerary: an exciting path, to be run by foot only, tearing the dark with the lightning of the frontal batteries, along galleries and places of work where the time seems to have stopped after the last shift
Author: Ecomuseo Regionale delle Miniere e della Val Germanasca
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 03/05/2005

The visit to the Mine Paola begins on board the little train, to continue afoot along the mining yards. Heat and cold, muffled noises, explosions roars, pneumatic hammers vibrations, darkness and the blinding white of the talc: two hours of total immersion in the life of the miners.
Author: Ecomuseo Regionale delle Miniere e della Val Germanasca
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 04/05/2005

Dear kids, we introduce you a different way to know the mines. Which story will tell us the Paola mine in Prali? You will discover it by reading the miners’ life and by searching in the "Discover the mine" museum.
Author: Ecomuseo Regionale delle Miniere e della Val Germanasca
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 03/05/2005

This short history tells how galena ore was exploited in the Bellmunt Mines of Priorat.
Author: Les mines de Bellmunt del Priorat
Original language: ES - Translations: IT | EN - Publishing: 14/06/2005

A tale. The life of the mine seen through the eyes of a donkey employed in carrying mineral tubs
Author: Musei Minerari di Massa Marittima
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 18/06/2005

The territory of Massa Marittima belonging to the wider complex of the Metal Hills, being characterized by a subsoil rich in mineral, has indissolubly bonded its history to the mines and the activities connected to them, which developed in Prehistory and came as far as recent years
Author: Musei Minerari di Massa Marittima
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 18/06/2005

This is the history of a museum piece, where all the passages to obtain the shovel digger, now standing at the museum entrance, are narrated.
Author: Museo de las Minas de Cercs
Original language: ES - Translations: IT | EN - Publishing: 05/06/2005

Visi talvolta un po' duri, ma con un guizzo amichevole, forse ironico negli occhi. Mani forti, da gente che da generazioni scava la dura roccia. Questi sono i minatori dell'Alta Valle Seriana. Una volta erano molti, ora ne sono rimasti solo pochi, ormai in pensione, ultimi testimoni di un mestiere secolare delle vallate bergamasche.
Author: Museo Etnografico dell'Alta Valle Seriana
Original language: IT - Publishing: 18/06/2005

From the oldest tales to the modern exploitment techniques, the story of an activity that deeply influenced the Oneta people.
Author: Museo Etnografico di Oneta
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 23/05/2005

You will know the mining activity in the area of Mount Arera (nothern Italy, province of Bergamo) from the times of Leonardo da Vinci, who visited the valley, to the 80's, when the mines were closed.
Author: Museo Mineralogico 'Franco Palazzi'
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 05/06/2005

This history is about Valentì Masachs Museum: organization, collections, and geological thematics.
Author: Museu de Geologia Valentí Masachs
Original language: ES - Translations: IT | EN - Publishing: 20/06/2005

This history tells about the coal and oil present in the Pirenei Mountains, in the northern Catalonia, both of them are used either as energy sources and raw materials for many industrial processes.
Author: Museu de Geologia Valentí Masachs
Original language: ES - Translations: IT | EN - Publishing: 04/06/2005

The factory has opened the doors like the Museum of the Cement Aslan of Castellar de n'Hug again; so that we could make use of a dynamic center showing us the first cement manufactoring industry in Catalunya, integrated with the Museo de Ciencia y de la Tecnica de Catalunya (mNACTEC).
Author: Museu del Ciment Asland de Castellar de n'Hug
Original language: ES - Translations: EN | IT - Publishing: 20/06/2005

In the early nineteenth century whole families, and often very young children, worked long hours underground. Women, and children under ten years old, were banned from underground work after 1842.
Author: National Coal Mining Museum for England
Original language: EN - Translations: IT - Publishing: 06/03/2005

Pit ponies worked underground in Britain from the eighteenth century until the end of the twentieth. Ponies pulled the tubs full of coal, and carried working materials to the coal face. They had a hard working life, but were protected by special laws, particularly after 1911.
Author: National Coal Mining Museum for England
Original language: EN - Translations: IT - Publishing: 15/03/2005

Strikes and conflict have been part of coal mining in Britain for nearly two hundred years. They were often the only way that miners and their families could make their voices heard. Strikes were often based on grievances which recurred time and time again, and frequently saw colliery workers fighting the same battles for better pay, working and living conditions and, more recently, to keep their jobs.
Author: National Coal Mining Museum for England
Original language: EN - Translations: IT - Publishing: 05/04/2005

The kitchen was at the heart of a mining family's home during this period. Very often all the meals were prepared, cooked and eaten in this one room. This was also the warmest room in the house as the fireplace would have been in this room and as miners received coal as part of their payment from the pit, the family never went cold.
Author: National Coal Mining Museum for England
Original language: EN - Translations: IT - Publishing: 17/03/2005

The National Coal Mining Museum for England tells the story of coal mining industry and coal mining communities in England. Through the underground visit into authentic mine workings, and from the galleries and historic colliery buildings, it is possible to see how coal mining developed from the earliest times to the present day.
Author: National Coal Mining Museum for England
Original language: EN - Translations: IT - Publishing: 08/04/2005

Coal was the major energy source for Britain's industrial development, based on the English, Welsh and Scottish coalfields. Many of these coalfields have been exploited for a considerable period of time, and there is some evidence for Roman use of coal. Like many European countries, coal mining is now in decline. There are currently only eight deep mines that remain open within the English coalfields.
Author: National Coal Mining Museum for England
Original language: EN - Translations: IT - Publishing: 19/04/2005

The Archaeological Park of Baratti and Populonia tells us about the life of the Etruscans: dynaimc people who left an important trace on this territory. Let’s discover their history by visiting their remnants
Author: Parco archeologico di Baratti e Populonia
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 04/06/2005

In the Archaeological and Mining Park of San Silvestro you can run through the long mining history of this area and discover the peoples that used to live here.
Author: Parco archeominerario di San Silvestro
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 04/06/2005

A short trail throughout four centuries, from 1582 to 1958, in order to know the ancient and modern mining techniques, the geologic characteristics of the place, the miners’ life. An interesting trail for people of all ages, through a path into the wood at an altitude of almost 1300 meters, below the wonderful Southern "Grigna".
Author: Parco Minerario dei Piani Resinelli
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 19/06/2005

The gnomes accompany in the belly of the mountain the youngest visitors to tell them about the difficult work of the miners
Author: Parco Minerario dei Piani Resinelli
Original language: IT - Translations: EN - Publishing: 14/01/2005

Un percorso che consente di cogliere, nell'ambiente montano, la coesistenza e l'interazione fra fenomeni geologici naturali e prodotti artificiali.
Author: Parco Minerario dei Piani Resinelli
Original language: IT - Publishing: 14/01/2005

Scotland is perhaps best known for having been the 'Workshop of the British Empire', having developed in the 19th and early 20th centuries an extraordinary industrial base. However, all its many industries, including iron, steel, shipbuilding and textiles depended entirely for their energy on a huge coal-mining industry.
Author: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Original language: EN - Publishing: 07/10/2005