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Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
The four sites of the site form a strip 170 km long and 3-15 km wide across Belgium from east to west and are the best preserved 19th and 20th century coal mining sites in the country. It features examples of early utopian architecture from the European Industrial Age, a highly integrated industrial and urban complex, notably the Grand-Horneau coal mine and workers' city designed by Bruno Renard in the first half of the 19th century. Bois-du-Luc includes many buildings built between 1838 and 1909, as well as one of the oldest coal mines in Europe, dating back to the late 17th century. While there are hundreds of coal mines in Wallonia, most have lost their infrastructure, while the four components of the site have retained a high degree of integrity.
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.
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System
Located in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, the mine is one of the major mining areas in Central Europe and includes an entire underground mine area, including drifts, shafts, galleries and other water management systems. Most of the mining area is underground, while the open-pit mining terrain preserves the remains of shafts and waste dumps, as well as the remains of a 19th century steam water pumping station. Elements of the water management system, both underground and on the surface, testify to three centuries of continuous efforts to drain the underground mining areas and use the poor water from the mines to supply towns and industries. Tarnowski Guri has made a significant contribution to global lead and zinc production.
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity
Over the centuries, the town of Banská Štiavnica has hosted many outstanding engineers and scientists who have contributed to the town's fame. The old medieval mining center developed into a town with a Renaissance palace, a 16th-century church, an elegant square and a castle. The city center blends into the surrounding landscape and contains important relics of past mining and metallurgical activities.
Nanhu Ecological Scenic Area
Since 1878, Kailuan Tangshan Mine has been mining coal in this area for more than 130 years, which has gradually formed a coal mining subsidence area of nearly 30 square kilometers. After the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, this place gradually became an abandoned land for urban garbage, fly ash and coal gangue. In 1996, the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government included the comprehensive management of the southern mining subsidence area in the practical project. In 2007, in line with the construction purpose of "turning waste into treasure, turning disadvantages into advantages, turning decay into magic, improving the environment, restoring the ecology, and improving the quality", the original subsidence pit was used to expand and transform the lake, plant trees, flowers and grass around the lakeshore, pave roads, and build a city park of initial scale. On March 1, 2008, the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government made a major decision to develop and build the Nanhu Ecological City. After more than a year of development and construction, plus the foundation laid in the previous decade, the Nanhu Ring Road has reached 22.5 kilometers, and a large number of trees, shrubs, aquatic plants, and ground cover plants have been planted, forming a huge urban "green lung".