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Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
The site is a striking landscape, the product of three centuries of coal mining from the 18th to the 20th century, and consists of 109 separate parts covering 120,000 hectares. The site features mining pits (the oldest of which date back to 1850) and lift infrastructure, slag heaps (some covering 90 hectares and reaching heights of over 140 metres), coal transport infrastructure, railway stations, workers’ estates and mining villages, including social settlements, schools, religious buildings, health and community facilities, company premises, houses for owners and managers, a town hall, etc. The site bears witness to the quest to create a model workers’ city from the mid-19th century to the 1960s, and further illustrates an important period in the history of European industrialisation. It documents the living conditions of workers and the worker solidarity it aroused.
Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
The site consists of 23 components, mainly located in southwestern Japan. It bears witness to the country's rapid industrialization from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century through the development of the steel industry, shipbuilding, and coal mining. The site shows how feudal Japan sought to transfer technology from Europe and the United States from the mid-19th century onwards, and how these technologies were adapted to the country's needs and social traditions. The site bears witness to what is considered the first successful transfer of Western industrialization to a non-Western country.
Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto
Located in an inaccessible part of Sumatra, this industrial estate was developed by the Dutch East Indies government during a globally significant period of industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine, process and transport high-quality coal. The workforce was recruited from the local Minangkabau people and supplemented by Javanese and Chinese contract workers, as well as convict labour from areas under Dutch control. It included mining areas and company towns, coal storage facilities at the port of Emahavn, and a railway network linking the mines to coastal facilities. The Umbrian Coal Mine Heritage Site is an integrated system that allows for efficient deep-hole mining, processing, transport and shipment of coal. It is also an outstanding testimony to the exchange and integration of local knowledge and practices with European technology.
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
The Slate Landscape of North West Wales demonstrates the transformation of the traditional rural environment of the Snowdon Mountains and Valleys by industrial slate quarrying and mining. Stretching from the top of the hill to the coast, this land presented both opportunities and constraints. Large-scale industrialisation processes undertaken by landowners and capital investors exploited these opportunities and constraints and reshaped the agricultural landscape into an industrial centre for slate production during the Industrial Revolution (1780-1914). The property consists of six sections, each of which includes surviving quarries and mines, archaeological sites associated with industrial processing of slate, historic settlements (both living and remains), historic gardens and grand country houses, ports, docks and quays, and railway and road systems, which demonstrate the functions and social connections of the surviving slate industrial landscape. The site is of international importance not only for the export of slate, but also for the export of skilled workers from the 1780s to the early 20th century. It has played a leading role in the industry, setting a model for other slate quarries around the world, and providing an important and outstanding example of the exchange of materials, technology and human values.