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🏆✨ Big News! The Ignacy Historic Mine has been honored with The European Heritage Awards Europa Nostra! 🏅👏🗓️ On 7th October 2024, the historic Ignacy Mine in Rybnik, Poland, won in the Conservation and Adaptive Reuse category. 🚂🏛️ This incredible site, founded in 1792 and one of Poland’s oldest coal…

🚀🌍 Exciting news! The COALHERITAGE project is now officially uploaded to the EGDI platform! 🎉 We’re thrilled to see the CoalHeritage Project EU featured on the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI) portal! 🔎✨ A huge thank you to the entire EGDI team for their incredible support in making this happen….

Exciting initiatives are underway in France to celebrate and preserve our coal mining heritage! 🌍✨Check out these amazing museums:• Centre minier historique de Lewarde (Nord): The largest mining museum in France! 🇫🇷• Parc Explor Wendel at Petite-Rosselle (Moselle)• Faymoreau Mining Center (Vendée)• Puits Couriot at Saint-Étienne (Loire)• And many others…

🎉 From the 6th to the 8th of September in Tarnowskie Góry, the traditional holiday ‘Gwarki’ was celebrated! 🎉Tarnowskie Góry is an ancient city where for centuries silver and lead were mined. One of the key events of the celebration was a popular-scientific conference titled “Industrialists of Tarnowskie Góry in…

📅✨ On July 18, 2024, Glowny Instytut Gornictwa – Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Bernard Bay at the Barbara Experimental Mine! Mr. Bay is the director of the Superior Art School of Tournai in Belgium and a specialist in industrial and mining photography 📸⛏️.During his visit,…

We’re excited to share that our article “CoalHeritage: Visualising and Promoting Europe’s Coal Mining Heritage” is now published in MDPI Mining as part of the Special Issue on Post-Mining Management and is available online! 🌟 https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6489/4/3/28 📘💻😀 CoalHeritage Project EU #Greece #Germany #Slovenia #France #Poland