Human activity, Mining

Banska Stiavnica
Banská Štiavnica is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano.
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Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Blaenavon town owes its existence to the early production of iron and coal in its mines and ironworks.
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Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape is located in South West England. This landscape of moors and rocky coasts was transformed in the 18th and 19th century by industrialised copper and tin mining.
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Diamantina
Diamantina, an aptly named diamond mining town in the north of Minas Gerais, has been put on the World Heritage List because of two main reasons.
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Great Copper Mountain
The Great Copper Mountain and its associated cultural landscape around Falun is one of the most enduring and complete monuments of the world's industrial heritage.
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Guanajuato
Guanajuato was founded as a town in 1554 and received the designation as a city in 1741. It is located in one of the richest silver mining areas of Mexico (it became the world's leading silver-extraction centre in the 18th century), and is well known for its wealth of fine colonial era Spanish architecture.
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Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
The Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine was a silver mine in the Shimane Prefecture of Honshű, Japan. It was developed in 1526 by Kamiya Jutei, a Japanese merchant.
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Kutná Hora
Kutná Hora developed as a result of the exploitation of silver mines and in the 14th century became a royal city endowed with monuments that symbolized its prosperity.
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Las Médulas
Las Médulas used to be the most important gold mine in the Roman Empire. All elements of the ancient landscape, both industrial and domestic, have survived to an exceptional degree.
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Potosí
Potosí lies beneath the Cerro de Potosí — sometimes referred to as the Cerro Rico ("rich mountain") — a mountain of silver ore, which has always dominated the city.
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Rammelsberg and Goslar
The Rammelsberg mining complex was in continuous use for at least 1000 years, before it closed its doors in 1988 due to exhaustion.
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Rřros
Known for its copper mines, Rřros is one of Norway's two nationally significant mining towns with activity starting in the 17th century.
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Sewell Mining Town
Sewell is an isolated mining town set up by a foreign company for copper mining. It´s located in central Chile on the slopes of the Andes, at an altitude between 2,000 and 2,250 metres.
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Wieliczka Salt Mine
The Salt Mines of Wieliczka were on the first World Heritage List ever, which was publicized in 1978.
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Zacatecas
Zacatecas was founded 1548, two years after the nearby discovery of silver. This and other mines in the vicinity attracted a large population, and it soon became one of the chief mining centres of Mexico.
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Zollverein
Mining here started in the middle of the 19th century in the village of Katernberg. Because of its closeness to the major railway to Cologne, the site had the potential to grow.
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