The area has a significant mining history, primarily gold, but current search activities are investigating a variety of other resources.

The longer a country's mining history, the more interesting are its abandoned mines.

It is mainly a museum of the town's mining history, with pictures and models.

One memory is very clear: that of the biggest disaster in British mining history.

These mines all had a major impact and played important roles in the county's mining history.

His works (translated into 19 languages) cover 300 years of the region's mining history.

This explosion, which killed 266 men, was one of the worst disasters in British mining history.

This is a feature that goes back to the mining history of the Harz.

An old pit wheel stands in front of the building, a memorial to the village's mining history.

Flooding and cave-ins in 1876 ended the 30-year period of active mining history.