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Salt Mountain of Cardona
The Salt Mountain is a unique natural phenomenon in the world and today it still grows as the rain erodes it. Its 120 meters are just the tip of a huge diapir about two kilometers deep. For an hour, you will go up to 86 meters and enjoy the spectacle of shapes and textures offered by the salt massif.
Cercs Mines Museum
The Cercs Mines Museum, dedicated monographically to coal, is an interpretation center to explain and publicize the multiple and close relationships between this fossil fuel and the geological, scenic, economic and human environment of Alt Berguedà.
BELLMUNT MINES MUSEUM
The Mines Museum offers visitors the opportunity to enter the galleries on the first floor of the Eugènia mine
MINAS DE GAVÁ ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK
Beneath the foot of the city, the Neolithic mines of Gavà are the oldest gallery mines in Europe, dedicated to the exploitation of variscite. The miners and miners reused some cavities to bury the dead, accompanied by rich trousseau with objects that came from remote places, through exchanges, and attracted by the variscite. And also to leave the day-to-day waste, of incalculable value to know what the communities that lived in Gavà in the Neolithic were like and what the landscape that surrounded them was like.
French oil mine of Riutort
In the 340 meters of the Riutort Oil Mine, between the main gallery, the transversal and the secondary one, and during the 10 years that it was in operation (1906 - 1916), approximately 3,500 tons of bituminous marls were extracted, which gave a average that did not exceed 70 liters of oil per ton. At the beginning, the oil was extracted from the layers of bituminous marls that surfaced outside, but later, and to get more out of it, the bituminous marls were searched through a system of galleries.
Victoria Mine
Historically Val d'Aran has been an important mineral extraction area. At the beginning of the 20th century, with the encouragement of the industrial revolution, the exploitation of zinc ore began basically in the Arres and Bossòst areas. In 1912, the Victòria Mine was already in full operation. Around eighty tons of crude ore were extracted per day and between 100 and 150 people worked there, distributed between the interior and exterior of the galleries. At the same time, a mineral wash was also put into operation in Bossòst.
Routes of the mines
The mining heritage is part of the historical memory of the region, it is a testimony of the technical and industrial development of past times and essential to understand the present reality of our territory. The years of mining exploitation marked the territory and the social life of its inhabitants and left a rich heritage. Most mine routes are circular, have different levels of difficulty and run through the municipalities of Queralbs, Pardines, Planoles, Toses and Ribes de Freser. Of the 11 itineraries, 4 pass through Ribes de Freser
Ogassa Mines
The main use of coal from the Ogassa mining basin was for the Catalan manufacturing industry, which was booming at the beginning of the s. XX with the industrial revolution as a framework for the country's growth. The way to extract the coal was in Pic i Pala, in galleries with batteries, caps and woods, to try to extract the stones from the bowels of the mountain. We remember the lost trades of the mines: choppers, laborers, locksmiths, carpenters, bricklayers, wagon workers, brakemen (difficult and risky trade) and coal washers. Tools such as tips, mallets, guns, carbide lights and hand tools that we have almost lost from memory today.
Salinas of Gerri de la Sal
The spring or source of salt water is officially registered with the name of "Mina Ofita" and is located to the right of the river Noguera Pallaresa, at a height of 620 meters above sea level.
Cement Museum
The old Asland cement factory, located in the Clot del Moro area, in the municipality of Castellar de n'Hug, operated from 1904 to 1975. The remains visible today still reveal the spectacular nature of one of the most incredible manufacturing complexes of Catalan industrialization, framed in a unique natural environment.
The small train of the Mina Nova de Coll de pradell
The small train of the mines, from the Nova de Coll de Pradell Mine (Vallcebre) has been making trips, to all the people who may be interested in the history of this genuine mining train and its mine, since it was completed in 2005 the 1st phase of the recovery project, allowing access to the mine once the access trace to the mine was recovered.
CEMENT TRAIN
It is a line that historically linked the old Asland cement factory in Castellar de n'Hug with Guardiola de Berguedà, from where the narrow gauge railway line to Berga and Manresa started. The journey of the old Ciment Train, which lasts approximately 20 minutes, is carried out by a diesel locomotive with four cars that have capacity for 25 passengers each. It has a 3.5 km route and stops at 4 stations:
Geology Museum "Valentí Masachs"
The “Valentí Masachs” Geology Museum of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia is located in the Manresa Superior Polytechnic School of Engineering. It was founded in 1980, and Dr. Valentí Masachs Alavedra was its first director. With its private collection of fossils and minerals together with the mineral samples collected by members of the museum, the first mineralogy and paleontology showcases with which it was inaugurated were set up.
CENTRAL CATALONIA GEOPARK
The UNESCO World Geopark of Central Catalonia is made up of 29 municipalities in Bages, 5 municipalities in Moianès (Moià, Calders, l'Estany, Monistrol de Calders and Santa Maria d'Oló), plus the municipality of Collbató, in Baix Llobregat . Broadly speaking, the surface of the Geopark is about 1,250 km2 and has 190,000 inhabitants.
PYRENEES ORIGINS GEOPARK
Located in the southern sector of the Catalan Pyrenees, in the province of Lleida, it is a territory with exceptional geological values that has been part of the UNESCO World Geoparks Network since April 17, 2018. There are 2,040 square kilometers of territory that includes a total of 19 municipalities:
Termes Romanes del Puig de Sant Grau
I-IV centuries d. C. Historical Monument of National Interest. Roman baths are of great value, for all that they represent and for being the best preserved of the ancient Aquae Calidae, the current Caldes de Malavella.
Canelles Energy and Geology Interpretation Center
The Energy Interpretation Center is a link between the public and scientific and technical knowledge, which brings the visitor closer to the world of Energy, Geology and the Natural Environment. The Center takes advantage of the characteristics of a unique space at the foot of one of the most important dams in Europe, the Canelles Dam, with a height of 152 m. in the Serralada del Montsec.
TAVASCAN WATER INTERPRETATION CENTER
Within the scope of the Alto Pirineo Natural Park, the Tavascan Water Interpretation Center wants to promote the dissemination of the importance of the role of water as a key element and backbone of the territory, in the different aspects, tourism (excursions to the many lakes and rivers), environmental (knowledge of the biodiversity of flora and fauna of the river environment), industrial (electricity generation).
CAPDELLA HYDROELECTRIC MUSEUM
The large water reserve of the Vall Fosca, which exceeds 50 million m3, allowed Emili Riu, a journalist and politician from Sort, to project the use of this resource at the end of the 19th century and to build the Capdella hydroelectric plant.
GOLD INTERPRETATION CENTER
The Segre Gold Interpretation Center is a space located in the building annexed to the Molí de l'Esquerrà that goes beyond the journey through the history of the exploitation of gold in the Segre river and that invites the visitor to live the experience of the real gold diggers.
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Rock Garden in Rubió. Alt Pirineu Natural Park
The garden is made up of twelve characteristic rocks of the natural park with a circular route accessible to people with reduced mobility that aims to simulate a trip back in time, from the oldest rock, 540 million years ago, to the most modern, from ago 220 million years. In addition, it has information panels on each rock and indicators of the appearance or extinction of species.
Geological Museum of the Seminary of Barcelona
Geological Museum of the Seminary of Barcelona is a museum whose object of study is paleontology, mainly invertebrates. It was founded in 1874 by Jaime Almera Comas and depended on the Barcelona Council Seminary. Since 1885 he has made the geological map of the province of Barcelona and since 1951 he also receives financial support from the CSIC. It has a library with 13,000 Titles, a collection of 68,000 fossils, 1 laboratory and 1 historical archive. In 1994 the association Friends of the Geological Museum of the Barcelona Seminary / AMGS) was created to collaborate in the Diffusion of the museum. Edit the battle magazine.
Monfulleda Museum of Mineralogia
In 1988, Joaquim Mollfulleda i Borrell donated his mineral collection to the Arenys de Mar City Council, and a new section of the Arenys de Mar Museum was inaugurated under the name of the Mollfulleda Museum of Mineralogy. Until his death in May 2006, Joaquim Mollfulleda i Borrell dedicated himself to expanding the Museum's mineral collection through the donations of many mineralogy enthusiasts and various acquisitions.
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LISTENING MINING MUSEUM
The Listening Mining Museum is a real coal mine (Lignite) enabled to be visited by tourists. The oldest record of this mine is from the second half of the 19th century (1850), with many owners having ownership of this mine, now a museum. The Cuencas Mineras de Teruel region, to which the municipality of Hearing belongs, and the municipality itself, have a history and a mining identity for more than 150 years when Azabache (a variety of coal used especially in jewelry) and Lignite coal (used as a heating element, mainly for large industries).
MUSEUM OF THE MINE OF MEQUINENZA
The Mequinenza Mine Museum keeps the stories of coal mining alive and collects and preserves the important mining heritage of the Mequinenza coal basin. A museum space where you can explore more than 170 years of mining history.
UTRILLAS MINING THEME PARK
Feel like a miner for a day aboard our original Hulla Nº1 locomotive from 1903. Thousands of people of all ages have already been able to enjoy this experience and learn about the authentic history of Utrillas mining, its past and its industrial heritage. A museum-driven tour of the different elements that make up the old Santa Bárbara Well mining operation.
MWINAS. ANDORRA MINING MUSEUM
The Mining Park, MWINAS, is a project aimed at achieving the sustainable development of our territory through the recovery of historical memory and the innovative use of old mining spaces. The Mining Park -MWINAS- offers the visitor a unique, living and constantly evolving space whose verterbrador axis is coal mining. Our proposal, which makes it different from other existing mining museums, is to show the entire region as an open-air museum whose common thread, mining, has reference points scattered throughout the territory, offering us a complete vision of the history of this sector, the basis of our economy.
SOBRABE GEOPARK
Sobrarbe is located in the heart of the Pyrenees and is the only Geopark located in this mountain range. If we stop at the Sobrarbe-Pyrenees Geopark we can enjoy, observe and learn while we remember our place in the natural world that sustains us. In every corner of Sobrarbe we can find a piece of the puzzle of the history of the Earth that is written on the rocks. In addition to the geological wealth, it includes an extraordinary ecological heritage (Nature reserves, original flora and fauna) and cultural (Art, folklore, gastronomy, etc.).
MAESTRAZGO GEOPARK
The Maestrazgo Geopark has an extensive territory that includes 43 Teruel municipalities where monumental complexes abound and natural wonders highlighted by their geological interest are appreciated. Likewise, the realities of the Sierra and Somontano coexist and there is a rich variety of landscapes and peasants, traditional festivals, history and contrasts ... Don't wait for them to tell you!
Aliaga Geological Park
The Aliaga Geological Park is a natural space, as well as a viewpoint from which you can contemplate the last 200 million years of our planet's history. Some of its magnificent geological formations and structures, modeled on spectacular reliefs, are considered by scientists as almost unique examples in the world. It represents the possibility of directing a new look on the Earth; to ask and ask questions ... The layers, accumulated one on top of the other, are the sheets of a book where the history of our planet is told.
MONTALBÁN GEOLOGY AND SPELEOLOGY INTERPRETATION CENTER
This center, installed in a large cavity under the church of Santiago, which served as a cellar, interprets the Geology of the Cultural Park as well as the underground cavities and speleological practice. The visitor is shown different routes and geological points of interest, as well as various underground routes.
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Samuño Valley Mining Ecomuseum
The Valle de Samuño Mining Ecomuseum opened its doors to the public on June 15, 2013 after the execution of a project that had been demanded for years by popular initiative. The fundamental objectives of the project were the conservation and rehabilitation of a very relevant heritage legacy and the economic revitalization of the valley, a territory particularly affected by the closure of mining operations.
MUMI. Museum of Mining and Industry of Asturias.
The Asturias Mining and Industry Museum is located in the town of El Entrego, in the municipality of San Martín del Rey Aurelio. It was built on the land of the landfill of the emblematic San Vicente Mine, in the area called El Trabanquín, in the heart of the Nalón coal basin.
Arnao Mine Museum
The Arnao mining complex is framed on the coast of the council of Castrillón, a privileged landscape next to the beautiful Arnao beach and a short distance from the Salinas beach, one of the largest and busiest in Asturias. In its location a natural and historical heritage has been concentrated that allows us to attend the birth of key manifestations to understand the past of the Earth and of human communities.
Well Sotón
The Sotón Well is a coal mine in the heart of the mining basin in Asturias. HUNOSA, the public mining company that owns the well, has launched a unique tourism project in the world: the possibility for tourists to visit its galleries and feel like a “miner for a day” chopping coal or drilling a gallery next to the miners of the company. Sotón is a unique adventure, the best plan when one wonders what to do in Asturias.
MUSI. Steel Museum
The Museo de la Siderurgia de Asturias, also known as MUSI, was inaugurated in September 2006 and is located in La Felguera, in the municipality of Langreo, Spain. The MUSI "aims to unite culture, industry, leisure and history, as a new model of interest and knowledge." History of the museum In 1857, the Riojan businessman Pedro Duro founded the company Duro y Compañía, which became the most important steel center in Spain. With the arrival of Duro, the valley, which until then was basically livestock and mining, underwent a great transformation. At the rate of steel growth, several cities were emerging giving work to thousands of Asturians, among them, ...
Mining Town of Bustiello
Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the Sociedad Coal de España, owned by Claudio López Bru, begins the construction and adaptation of this plain located next to the Aller river. The reason for this work was the urgent need to locate the workers in the same urban space, from this need this colony of industrial origin began to be built in 1890, whose end of work is dated in 1925. This urban project was a pioneer in the time, as it is the only one that took place, for that reason it was classified as a Site of Cultural Interest
Texeo Mines and Rioseco Mining Town
The mines were discovered by the Belgian engineer Alejandro Van Straalen in 1888. His discovery occurred when he was looking for a cavity in the limestone, which he had suspected was produced by man, he suddenly observed that the leaves of a large tree were shaking despite of the absolute calm that reigned in the atmosphere. He approached to discover the cause of such oddity and saw that at the foot of the tree there was a chimney through which a column of fresh air came out violently.
Llumeres: the iron beach
The Llumeres Mine is an iron exploitation that operated for more than 100 years and was the most important iron mine in Asturias, contributing 40% of the total production in the region and whose historical maximum was reached in the 1960s. .
GOLDEN CLASSROOM IN BELMONTE DE MIRANDA
Located in front of the Tourist Office, in a building that was a former prison built with stones from the Santa María de Lapedo Monastery, the Aula del Oro de Belmonte is an interpretation center that covers the entire history of extraction in a didactic and interactive way. of gold in our peninsula, with the Roman exploitations as the main protagonists.
Pozu Fortuna didactic classroom
The old carpentry of the Fortuna mining operation, in San Andrés de Turón, houses this cultural facility. The content of the Pozo Fortuna Center is shown along a route made up of three exhibition blocks that collect the history of the industrialization process of the Turón Valley since its inception, with an incipient mining that its workers combined with agricultural and livestock activities, until the new commitment to recover and value its natural resources and the history of the Well. All of this articulated by means of photographs with explanatory texts, interactive screens and audiovisual projections. At the end of the route, there is also access to a room that refers to the recovery of the Historical Memory and the events that occurred there. Likewise, you will go through an authentic underground gallery, destined for a powder magazine, in which you can experience the sensations of working under the ground.
Pozu Espinos Didactic Classroom
The Espinos pool is an extraordinary example of coal mining inserted in the attractive Turón valley: dating from the 1920s, promoted by the Basque capital firm Hulleras de Turón, it is an engineering work whose reduced scale and its magnificent restoration allow us to understand the operation of these facilities and what was the industrial history of the area.
GOLD MUSEUM OF ASTURIAS
Museum dedicated to gold, its value and that of the history of men who for centuries have fought against nature to obtain the precious metal from it. Ancient and religious stories, medical and technological advances, masterful engineering come together in Navelgas so that you can meet them on an exciting journey. Astures, Romans, and legends of our century bring us stories of struggle, power, rites and symbols.
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RÍO TINTO MINING PARK
Visit with one of the wonders of the province of Huelva in the Mining Park. The dimensions of Corta Atalaya amaze the visitor. A reference of world mining that recovers its visits, to show the impressive work of the thousands of miners who carved each of its terraces by hand. One of the symbols of the province of Huelva that you can enjoy in the Mining Park. Guided tour with departures from the Mining Museum in the afternoon.
DE LINARES Mining Landscape Interpretation Center
The intense mining activity, specialized almost exclusively in the extraction of lead, has left numerous and interesting vestiges within the municipality of Linares. We find a rich heritage in which winches, chimneys, foundries, laundries, power plants, etc. are not lacking. All this united by a tangle of old roads and railroad tracks.
Rodalquilar Gold Mines
In the municipality of Níjar we find an old abandoned mining area in the middle of the mountains of the Rodalquilar volcanic caldera. A place worn by time and from which we can still see some traces of the history of mining life in the old 'Rodalquilar Gold Mines'. Although the quarrying of the area began with the extraction of alum, in the 15th century, lead and silver, in the 19th century, it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the first gold function plant was created in the region, 'Planta Dorr'.
PEÑALOSA FIELD IN BAÑOS DE LA ENCINA
Peñalosa deposit, is the Bronze Age town that we know best in the south of the peninsula, since it has been systematically excavated since 1986 by a team of archaeologists from the University of Granada. It belongs to the Argar Culture, which developed during the Bronze Age in the provinces of Almería, Murcia, Granada and part of those of Jaén and Alicante, and was inhabited for about 400 years, from 1850 to 1450 BC.
Mining town of El Centenillo de Baños de la Encina
Nestled in the middle of the Sierra Morena, its origins date back to 1865 when the English businessmen Haselden and Rommer (Sociedad Especial Minera Río Grande) began to extract the silver galena seams and shortly after they had their technicians build in the area the necessary accommodation to house both to the technicians and administrators themselves as well as to mining workers and their families.
Peñarroya Geological-Mining Museum
It is the most famous museum that we can find in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo. It is located in La Yutera, a factory located in the Polígono Industrial La Papelera. Here, we can find a great diversity of rocks and minerals along with the tools that were used to extract them. With a tour of the Geological Mining Museum we can learn about the mining history of our city and of Spain.
The Geode of Pulpí
In December 1999, members of the Madrid Mineralogist Group discovered the Pulpí Geode in the Rich Mine, it is a geode about 8 meters long by 2 meters high covered with huge gypsum crystals. The Geode of Pulpí is upholstered by plaster crystals, some of which measure almost two meters. Its transparency and state of conservation make it a jewel of nature. It is a unique phenomenon worldwide given its dimensions and the perfection, size and transparency of the crystals (Calaforra and García-Guinea, 2000).
MINAS DEL MARQUESADO FOUNDATION
The objective of the foundation is to develop in the area activities closely related to the iron mining that the region symbolizes. Among the most immediate activities are the organization of courses, conferences and seminars related to mining in the Marquesado region. In addition, employment workshops and vocational training schools. But also the organization of exhibitions and cultural events, as well as the recovery, cataloging, conservation and making available to the public and the scientific community of the extensive documentary and technological legacy of the "Compañía Andaluza de Minas" and other mining companies linked to the Granada area.
Cerro Muriano Mining Zone
The Historic Site of the Cerro Muriano Mining Zone, which encompasses a wide area of a beautiful spot in the Sierra Morena, has recently been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest and registered in the General Catalog of Andalusian Historical Heritage. Protected then against urban aggressions that could have seriously affected its archaeological and environmental wealth, it is well worth a visit, its Copper Museum and Archaeological Park - which this step also deserves more attention from the institutions - to enjoy its history and landscape.
MINE EL PEÑOCILLO
The origin of its exploitation is related to the production of iron by Manuel Agustín Heredia at the beginning of the s. XIX, in the blast furnaces of the Concepción forge. In 1872 they became English property, closing definitively in 1931.
LA CARRATRACA MINE
From the urban area of Carratraca, heading south, the Camino de Casarabonela begins, where, some two kilometers away, various Chrome-Nickel mines are located in the Cerro de las Minas; They are geologically associated with the peridotite outcrop of the Sierra de Aguas. Mines such as San Juan, El Sapo, Los Jarales, San Agustín, Rosario Mine, Diamond Mine, El Inglés, Los Pobres or Pozo Moreno made up a mining district that was in operation in the 19th and 20th centuries, positioning Malaga at the head of European production of these minerals in the decades before the Civil War.
Cabo de Gata-Níjar Geopark
The Cabo de Gata-Níjar Unesco World Geopark constitutes one of the most peculiar coastal strips and a unique example of the Mediterranean steppe. It is located in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, being the driest natural area in all of Europe. Due to its climatic conditions, its geographical position and its geological origin, it is inhabited by species, both flora and fauna, truly unique and perfectly adapted to the environment.
Sierras Subbéticas Natural Park
The Cordovan Subbetic Sierras constitute, in the broad spectrum of geodiversity of the Protected Spaces of Andalusia, an exceptional representative to introduce us to the geology of the heart of the Betic Cordillera: the subbetic domain of the External Zones.
GEOPARK SIERRA NORTE DE SEVILLA
In September 2011 Sierra Norte de Sevilla was recognized as a member of the Global Geoparks Network. Four years later, in September 2015, it passed the revalidation process of recognition as a geopark, after proving that this space is working in accordance with the established criteria and parameters, in matters such as sustainable development and the conservation and promotion of values. geological and cultural. On November 17, 2015, the UNESCO member states ratified during the General Conference the statutes of the new International Geosciences and Geoparks Program, legally approving the new UNESCO Global Geopark label, a designation that Sierra Norte de Sevilla has held ever since.
Granada Geopark
In the province of Granada there is a spectacular territory for its landscape and for hosting one of the best continental geological records of the last 5 million years. Among other treasures, this record contains the most complete set of fossil remains of extinct large mammals that lived during the Quaternary Period (the last 2.5 million years of Earth's history, when humanity appeared on the planet) .
Arboleas Roman Mine
The Arboleas City Council has begun the cleaning and conditioning of the Limaria mine, an important deposit of 'Lapis specularis' or glasses dating from Roman times and which is interested in exploiting as a tourist attraction through visits in order to boost the local economy and employment.
ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM - MINING THE MALACATE OF TIMAR.
It is an ethnological-mining museum where, through a series of interesting murals and models, the mercury mining in Tímar is shown, from the extraction of cinnabar ore to the operation of factories to obtain it, as well as various ethnological elements ( economic-cultural) of this region: the looms, the breeding of silkworms, traditional songs, different tools and farm implements, etc.
THARSIS MINING MUSEUM
The genesis of all this has been the inscription in the catalog of the Andalusian historical heritage of the furniture and real estate of the Copper and Sulfur Companies of Tharsis SL and the French Society of Piritas de Huelva, currently called Nueva Tharsis SAL and Piritas de Huelva SAL, an important step so that, now, the youngest can learn more about how the mineral was extracted from the subsoil of their houses hundreds of years ago.
SEVILLE MUSEUM OF GEOLOPHY
The great treasure of the Geology Museum of the University of Seville are its collections, which have not stopped growing since its origins in 1850. Today it brings together more than 5000 specimens in the fields of mineralogy, petrology and paleontology. Part of these valuable collections are found in two exhibitions, one located on the first floor of the CITIUS building (Center for Research, Technology and Science of the University of Seville) and another in the Casa de la Ciencia of the CSIC with the name of “Geosevilla. Explore 540 million years ”.
VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF MINERALOGY OF HUELVA
This website is the result of a Teaching Innovation Project granted by the Vice-Rector's Office for Permanent Training and Innovation of the University of Huelva (UHU) in its 2010/2011 call. From this portal it is intended to project the mineralogical heritage of the UHU in a virtual didactic environment, organized through a hypertext structure that allows the gathering of texts and images, including texts hyperlinked to multimedia databases. The virtual museum is also conceived as a complementary didactic resource, to encourage the work of the students in the practical sessions and the face-to-face visit to the permanent exhibition Mineral Treasures of the UHU.
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Mineralogy museum. Department of Mineralogy and Petrology University of Granada
The current collection has its origin in the one acquired at the end of the 19th century in Germany for the Mineralogy Cabinet of the University of Granada and comprised about three hundred specimens including minerals, rocks and coals. Currently, a good part of the initial material is preserved, although with significant losses due to neglect for many years and the various transfers it has suffered. It was initially located in the central building of the University, in the current Faculty of Law, and in 1950 it moved to an annex building, located on Duquesa Street, where the old Faculty of Sciences was installed.
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Minerals and Treasures of the Earth Classroom-Museum of Geology
Minerals and Treasures of the Earth Aula-Museum of Geology, is a geo-educational-cultural project for the dissemination of Geological Sciences, an entrepreneurial idea of private sponsorship without institutional support, aimed at the sectors of education, culture and tourism in the city of Malaga…
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elizondo mines
In April 2021, this new tourist itinerary is planned to visit the Oinaska / Oñaska waterfall, an unknown jewel of nature. It is a circular path that runs between the towns of Elizondo and Elbete and has been converted into “auzolan” (community work) by the residents of both towns. Although access to the caves is not prohibited, caution is recommended as there is a lot of mud and water inside. Caution must be exercised if we enter without adequate equipment and security, especially if there are children.
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Maestrazgo mining park
The Parc Miner del Maestrat is located in the natural area of “la Fontanella”, situated at an altitude of about 800 meters, and offers magnificent panoramic views of the Alt Maestrat region. A privileged space where you can learn about the old underground mining industry, tour its galleries and learn how those men who left this extraordinary legacy lived and worked. A heritage with great tourist and cultural attraction, an experience for the senses, an exciting adventure.
CHERA GEOLOGICAL PARK
The Chera Geological Park covers most of the municipal term of this town located in the Valencian interior. It is a park that can be enjoyed outdoors, and in which the geological structure of a Rift Valley is exemplarily represented, which is an elongated morphological depression, limited by large fractures that break the ground into blocks, some of the which have sunk.
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LA UNION MINING PARK
The La Unión Mining Park is a privileged space in the Sierra Minera where you can learn in situ the complete process of the old underground mining industry of the 19th century, and live the unforgettable experience of visiting more than 4,000 m2 of galleries of a mine open to the public. Come to discover a legacy that represents the living memory of the history of the Union and of those men who worked in the bowels of this Sierra.
ROMAN SPA OF ALHAMA
At the foot of the castle hill and taking advantage of the existence of a thermal water spring, in the 1st century after Christ, the Romans built some thermal baths that were used until the 4th century. The material culture of this period (glasses, plates, coins or ornaments) show us the splendor of the Iberian and Roman settlement of the area. The thermae were one of the leisure places preferred by the Romans to bathe, take massages, chat and play sports, that is, to achieve the well-being of the body and the spirit.
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The geology of Tenerife
A first tip: do not visit the island without taking the Teide National Park Geological Guide with you.
Lanzarote geopark
Lanzarote, popularly known as «the island of the volcanoes», is the northernmost and easternmost of the Canary Islands, its approximate coordinates are 29º 02´21´´ N and 13º 38´15´´ W. It has an oval shape with appendages in the extremes: Famara to the north and Los Ajaches to the south, separated by about 55 km and barely 21 km separate the easternmost end from the westernmost. The length of the coastline is 247.49 km. It is at a distance of approximately 140 km from the northwest African coast and about 1000 km from the Iberian Peninsula.
THE VOLCANOES OF GRAN CANARIA
Gran Canaria was planned as a tourist destination for the observation of its volcanoes.
EL HIERRO GEOPARK
The great potential of the island's spectacular geological heritage as a resource to contribute to the social and economic development of its inhabitants is well known. The challenge was how to manage this heritage within the framework of sustainability and at the lowest possible cost, to obtain tangible results in the short term to endemic problems such as island isolation. The Cabildo de El Hierro has chosen the figure of Geopark as a model of rural development because it fits with the expectations of sustainable development of the island. In other words, in many respects El Hierro already functioned as a Geopark.
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EL POZO DE SANTA BRIGIDA MUSEUM
Of the thousands of abandoned wells that pierce the island of Gran Canaria, the Galeón is possibly the only one that has been restored as a museum. Its architectural structure does not present any peculiarity, being of rectangular plant with walls of rough ashlars and a metal gable roof, which kept the curb and a combustion engine. However, although it does not present peculiar architectural characteristics, we are facing a true jewel of the ethnographic heritage of the water culture, since the property reminds us of the enormous effort of an era to guarantee the availability of drinking water.
Salinas de Tenefé Gran Canaria
The Salinas de Tenefé are located on the southwest coast of the island of Gran Canaria, within the municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana. The area is known as Punta de Tenefé and next to it is the El Saladar Maritime Park, a place of marine research and with an important presence of endemic flora.
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CANTABRIA
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THE SOPLAO
NOW OPEN FOR THE MINING VISIT. VIA FERRATA IN EL SOPLAO. Apart from the tourist visit, accessible to everyone and the geological / speleological visit, for the most intrepid, El Soplao already offers the possibility of visiting the galleries and mining facilities, with the aim of publicizing an economic activity that has formed part of the history of the region and in particular of the Soplao Territory. The visitor will experience the mining activity, its difficulties and its surroundings first-hand, and will be surprised by the variety of underground spaces and facilities, living a unique experience.
COSTA QUEBRADA GEOLOGICAL PARK
The name Geological Park was conceived in 2015 as a formula that intentionally avoids possible confusion with UNESCO Global Geoparks. The principles, operation and objectives are the same as those of the spaces belonging to this designation. This territory is currently in the bidding process to integrate Costa Quebrada to this global network, which, in case of success, will mean changing the name to UNESCO World Geopark.
Lorenzo Pfersich exhibition
The Lorenzo Pfersich Mineral Exhibition is a private collection that belonged to Mr. Lorenzo Pfersich Merki, director of the Nestlé factory in La Penilla de Cayón, between 1947 and 1955, and which was donated to the University of Cantabria by his wife, Mrs. Carmen Ruiloba Setién. Located on the ground floor of the Polytechnic School of Mining and Energy Engineering on the Torrelavega University Campus, this exhibition has an informative nature whose objective is to show one of the most appreciated treasures that the Earth hides inside: MINERALS . Appreciated for their beauty revealed in the form of perfectly geometric crystals, or for being the base raw materials of countless industries, MINERALS have played an important role in the development of humanity.
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MINING INTERPRETATION CENTER IN SANTULLAN
The Mining Museum has more than 600 m2 of exhibitions divided into three floors and nine rooms. It tells us the history of coal from its formation to its use by man. The tour is thematic and interactive. Each of the rooms interprets a theme related to mining.
LEON STEEL AND MINING MUSEUM
In the first decades of the 19th century, around 1830, in European countries such as France, Germany or Belgium, large iron and steel facilities were being built, very novel because they embody a new industrial urban concept. Huge facilities based on a specific architecture for industrial production. It is an urban configuration designed to offer all kinds of services, both for workers and managers (hospitals, pharmacies, houses, grocery stores and the workplace itself). The rolling and forging warehouse is the only vestige of this style that remains in Spain from an industrial facility of the time.
LAS MÉDULAS NATURAL MONUMENT
Located in El Bierzo, to the northwest of the Aquilanos Mountains and next to the Sil River Valley, Las Médulas are an impressive Spanish landscape formed as a result of Roman gold mining. Considered the largest open pit gold mine in the entire Roman Empire, the engineering work that went into extracting the gold significantly altered the environment in the area, resulting in an unusual red sand landscape covered in chestnut and oak trees.
THE JULIA DE FABERO WELL
Welcome to this accessible route interpreted by the mining area of Pozo Julia. Throughout the itinerary that we propose, you will be able to learn about the past and present of this mining complex from the hands of its protagonists, entering the interior of the different buildings that make up this space. In the signs that start the route, you will be able to obtain information about the itinerary itself, as well as about the history of Pozo Julia.
THE FACTORY OF LIGHT. ENERGY MUSEUM
The Light Factory. Museo de la Energía is the informative and cultural leisure space in Ponferrada in which to learn, have fun and where energy is always the protagonist. Located in the old thermal power station of the Minero Siderúrgica de Ponferrada (MSP), the Museum is also a space for meeting and participation in which a varied program of activities is offered for all audiences.
GEOPARK LAS LORAS
The observation of the landscape of the Loras allows us to distinguish three basic aspects of the reality of this mid-mountain territory: the prominence of a powerful relief, the slowness of the transformations in a space of low intensity of use and occupation and the agrarian dominance of its economic background. The agrarian imprint is the main human footprint of occupation and productive organization of the space and also the oldest, but not the only one, since other characteristics of occupation and use are present in a notable way: the agri-food industry in Aguilar de Campoo, the oil field Ayoluengo, the extractive industry and the production of wind energy present in various areas of the territory, together with the tourist activity currently concentrated in the areas of the Palentina Mountain (Aguilar de Campoo) and the Ebro Canyon (Orbaneja del Castillo and Sedano ). The towns closest to the city of Burgos have been acquiring a residential imprint and a certain business and service dynamism. The small number of non-agricultural companies is compounded by low diversification and an imbalance in their distribution.
Mining Museum "Mining Memory".
The Mining Culture Foundation starts the tourism project for Bierzo Alto with the launch of the "Memory of Tower" performance, a special tribute to the wealth that coal gave to its mining basin, and to all those people who gave up their effort, and sometimes his life, in the mine. The museum is located in the building donated by the Viloria family for use as a museum-exhibition. It is made up of a compilation of photographs, data and documents; a sample of traditional mining machinery, the old warehouses of the Viloria group have also been donated to host this sample of tools used to extract coal; and the gold mine, which will be open to visitors in the short term and images of mining work will be projected inside.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD TWELVE SEVENTY
Live an experience that you will never forget. The visit begins knowing from the hand of our master brewers the secret of our beers; You will be able to try each one of them in a tasting in which we will take a journey through the ingredients, the history and the secrets of the best drink in the world. But we are not just beer ... Delve into the more than 34 km of mining tunnels abandoned more than a hundred years ago. They say that the galleries are inhabited by the spirit of the mining brewmaster ... Do you dare to look for it with us? In the bowels of the earth you will make a unique journey through time.
PETROLEUM MUSEUM
The existence of the oil field has suggested the creation of a Petroleum Museum in the town of Sargentes de La Lora, where the 50 years of history can be made known, in addition to transmitting to visitors everything related to oil, its geology , industry and derivatives.
Hope Mine
In March 2013 the Esperanza Mine was opened to the public in Olmos de Atapuerca, a district belonging to the municipality of Atapuerca (Burgos). It is a new tourist attraction in the territory of the Sierra de Atapuerca, a space where visitors can learn, during a 200-meter journey, how was the work of the miners who worked there. The Atapuerca Foundation has joined this initiative through a collaboration agreement signed with the Olmos de Atapuerca Neighborhood Council to advise on the management of visits and also to serve as a link with the Atapuerca Research Team, as well as with other entities, to update and develop tourist visits in this space.
Juzbado Falla Museum
The activities of the Museo de la Falla are varied and open to all audiences. In addition to our attention to the public and guided tours, we hold meetings and proposals for geological, landscape and environmental dissemination. We want to briefly present some of the activities that we carry out or in which we participate throughout the year.
Robles de Laciana geological classroom
This entire area was a mining area from which coal was extracted. This means that millennia ago, this territory must have been a humid forest with great vegetation; and it is even possible, a littoral zone. Either from a sea, or a freshwater lagoon.
Barruecopardo Mineralogy Museum
The Mineralogy Museum opened its doors in 2012, and is located on Ortiga Street, in the former premises of the municipal slaughterhouse. In his tour of its three rooms, through information panels, photographs, documents, minerals, tools and audiovisuals, he intends to bring the visitor closer to the Barruecopardo tungsten mines and highlight the importance they had in the past in our town, which she was known as the "California Girl".
Tejada Geology and Fossils Visitor Center
The center is distributed over two floors. At the entrance, the first thing that catches your attention is a limestone scale model of Tejada that shows in a real way what the morphology of the terrain is like; If a cut were made along the line that separates the two blocks, the lower layers of the terrain would be seen. It is the work of Severino Alonso as well as the resin reproduction of two ammonites that hang from the ceiling. On this entrance floor you have access to a summary of the contents of the center and there is also the reception and a room for talks, conferences and screenings.
Museum of minerals and geo-routes of Valseca
The Valseca Geomuseum (formerly the Municipal Museum of Minerals, Rocks and Fossils) opened to the public in 1997, thanks to an agreement between the Valseca City Council and Andrés Díez Herrero, who donated their private collection (with some 900 pieces). With this, the first public geological museum in Castilla y León was born. Subsequently, the Museum has expanded the collection thanks to other private contributions, such as those of the Ibañez couple, the stonework tools of D. Pedro de Frutos or the mining tools of D. Gregorio Criado, among many other donors.
Complejo Minero de Puras de Villafranca
El complejo minero permite adentrarse en varias minas reales de Manganeso (no son una reproducción) y conocer todas las infraestructuras asociadas a esta actividad industrial: desde los lavaderos de mineral, a la turbina que generaba electricidad, las oficinas... Es un viaje en el tiempo a la mina de Manganeso más antigua de España.
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CASTILLA LA MANCHA
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ALMADÉN MINING PARK
The Almadén Mining Park is the living heritage of the two thousand years of the Almadén exploitation. After the closure of the mining activity in 2003, the oldest mines in the world whose activity has been maintained to this day, reveal their secrets. Mercury, the living silver of the Romans, is displayed in the Park in all its aspects, the extraction of its mineral, cinnabar, mercury sulfide, its transformation in metallurgical furnaces, its physical and chemical properties, its uses and, of course, its eternal history.
PUERTOLLANO MINING MUSEUM
The museum is a building that surrounds an old castle and that simulates a coal selection workshop. In its two floors, the museum discourse addresses the transformation of Puertollano into an industrial city due to the discovery of coal. The first floor exhibits the creation of coal from the carboniferous fauna and flora, the geology of the term, paleontology, and mineralogy. Later the historical evolution is approached, from the pre-Roman mining to the discovery of the coal and the economic resources of the pre-industrial society are exposed.
LAPIS SPECULARIS MINES
Lapis Specularis is a crystallized plaster that the Romans used as window glass for the first two centuries AD. According to Pliny the Elder, the best Lapis Specularis of the entire Roman Empire was located 100,000 steps around the city of Segóbriga, and within those 100,000 steps are the Lapis Specularis mines of Huete.
MOLINA ALTO TAJO GEOPARK
The Molina de Aragón-Alto Tajo Comarca Geopark received credentials as a full member of the European Network (EGN-European Geoparks Network) and the Global Geoparks Network (GGN-Global Geopark Network) in September 2014, during the 6th International Conference on Geoparks, held in Stonehammer Geopark (Canada). The territory of the Geopark corresponds to the Señorío de Molina – Alto Tajo, one of the four natural regions that make up the province of Guadalajara, in the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha. It covers totally or partially 70 municipal terms, being Molina de Aragón the most important town in population.
ROMAN IRON CAVE MINE
Within the mining complex of Cueva del Hierro, there are morphological features in the design and working techniques of Roman mining in underground works. In some points, the solutions adopted bear a striking similarity to the specular stone mining of La Alcarria and Mancha de Cuenca, dating from the High Empire (1st and 2nd centuries AD). The iron extracted from the mine was used to make weapons and tools used in other mines. In the Middle Ages, the charter created by King Alfonso VIII of Castile granted the city of Cuenca the management of all mining operations, expressly citing those of iron and silver. “In the first place, I give and grant to all the inhabitants of the city of Cuenca and their successors, Cuenca throughout its term; that is to say, with its mountains, fountains, pastures, rivers, salt pans and mines of silver, iron or any other metal .. "
Mine La Condenada de Ossa de la Vega
Less than 20 minutes from the Segóbriga Archaeological Park, the Roman mine of 'La Condenada' is located in the Cuenca town of Osa de la Vega, forming part of one of the most extensive and interesting mining complexes of lapis specularis in Castilla-La Mancha . From there the specular plaster or glass was extracted, which due to its size and transparency the Romans used as glass, exploiting and distributing the mineral from this area to the entire Empire. This mine has a labyrinthine plot and a development of almost a kilometer of underground route on three levels accessible to each other.
Lapis Specularis Mines - Torrejoncillo del Rey
Torrejoncillo del Rey is a new municipality created from grouping towns and villages. In it there is a high and high a legend that in turn has an important mine between the cracks in the earth. The legend speaks of a treasure and the enchantments of a Moorish princess that give the hill its name: La Mora Encantada. The mine that hides the hill in its entrails was rediscovered in 1953 by a neighbor of the town who, in search of the presumed riches of the legend, dug one of the Roman wells until reaching the underground interior.
Geominero Space of the Calar del Mundo - Minas de Calamina de San Jorge
The main reason for the location of the Riópar Factories is the existence of Calamina in its mountains. But what is calamine? It is the name of Latin origin (cadmia) traditionally used to designate smithsonite or hemimorphite (zinc silicate), but also zinc carbonate, which was abundant in Riópar. The term calamine is also commonly used as a generic name for zinc ores, and even to speak of molten zinc. Thus, we speak of "calamine" sculptures, which are made with a zinc alloy (mainly) with lead and tin.
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The Country of Silver is a space to remember and understand the history of Hiendelaencina, a small village of no more than "200 souls", shaken by the discovery in 1844 of its rich subsoil by D. Pedro Esteban Górriz. A surveyor and geology fan he convinced his friends to create and exploit the first mining company "Santa Cecilia" and whose magnificent results gave rise to a "silver rush", with the denunciation of more than 200 companies and the opening of a without number of wells with names as evocative as "Bad Night", "Force", "the Truth of the Artists", "Christmas Eve" ...
Historical Mining Museum «Francisco Pablo Holgado» Almadén
Located inside the current Almadén School of Mining and Industrial Engineering, this museum was created in 1988 as the result of the initiative of a group of mineralogy fans, both teachers and individuals, who donated the first pieces. In it interesting and countless collections of minerals, rocks and fossils are exposed. In addition, an interesting review is made through the history of mining in the region and the Academy of Mines, showing tools and instruments used by the students of the same for learning the different subjects.
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BASQUE COUNTRY
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BASQUE COUNTRY MINING MUSEUM
The Mining Museum of the Basque Country is a non-profit organization that arises from a social initiative developed since 1986, the year in which the Mining Museum Cultural Association was created. This is an association formed among others by former miners and steel workers, who see, in the midst of the industrial crisis, how the elements that have been part of what until then had been the essence of Bizkaia, are beginning to be abandoned.
GEOPARKEA.GEOPARK OF THE BASQUE COAST
The Basque Coast Geopark is a small territory wedged between the Cantabrian Sea and the Basque mountains, made up of the municipalities of DEBA, MUTRIKU and ZUMAIA. At first glance, the Geopark stands out for the harmony of the different shades of green of the pastures and forests that follow one another from the coastline to inland. But the real interest of this place is in its guts. Geology is the true protagonist of a landscape that keeps the history of some of the most impressive episodes in the recent history of the earth.
BASQUE IRON MUSEUM
The Basque Iron Museum shows us the keys to understanding the history and importance of iron in the Basque Country. We will get to know old trades such as ironworks, miners (a beautiful model shows a mine) or charcoal makers who, through the representation of a life-size coal bunker, take us into this tough job, where we will also learn about the history of the most beloved and famous coal man in the Basque Country Olentzero ( equivalent to Santa Claus).
IRUGURUTZETA MINING COTO
The wealth of the mining reserves of the Bidasoa has been known since Roman times. Its exploitation continued during the Middle Ages and lasted until the 20th century and in other times, some not so distant, it was an important source of resources that left its mark on the life of Irun and its people. The current landscape on the slopes of Aiako Harria is a reflection of this intense mining activity. You can still see quarries, dumps, transportation systems, inclined planes or the ruins of a mining town. The most accessible and emblematic area, which was testimony to the mineral preparation and calcination processes, is located in Irugurutzeta. A system of terraces made it possible to make the most of the land.
ARDITURRI MINE
The Arditurri mines are located in the heart of the Aiako Harria natural park, in Oiartzun. Aiako Harria is the oldest geological formation in the Basque Country, characterized by its variety of rocky materials and its spectacular orography. Its slow formation process began in the Paleozoic era and continues to this day. The exploitation of the mines dates back to the time of the Roman Empire, although remains found in the environment indicate that it could begin long ago.
THE IRON MOUNTAIN OF ZERAIN
The exploitation of iron has been of great importance in the history of the Basque Country. Since the 11th century and for centuries, iron has been exploited in the 150 hectares that make up the Aizpea mines. Thanks to this exploitation, the area has developed a special landscape, that of the iron lands
Museum Cemento Rezola
Museum Cemento Rezola is a unique space, created in 2000 in the Añorga neighborhood of San Sebastián, to make known what cement is, its evolution and the importance that this material has had in the development of society throughout of the last century, as well as the innovative solutions that it is capable of providing to create more sustainable cities in the present and future.
Luberri Museum
In the museum there are two thematic rooms: Geological History of Euskal Herria. We can find the most representative fossils of Basque geography. We can find complete information about how animals have lived and planted them in the last 600 million years. We will know the extracts that the rocks, minerals and fossils keep. In itself, we will know the processes of change in the physical space in which we live and the evolution of life. Geology of the Oiartzun Valley, the Aiako Harria Natural Park and Oarsoaldea. Through the information panels we can immerse ourselves in many interesting events, as well as the creation of Aiako Harria batholiths. In fact, the only granite structure in the Basque Country. We will get to know the oldest town in Guipúzcoa, as well as the most significant fossils from the geological era of the region.
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LITHICA
LÍTHICA is a private non-profit foundation born out of the urgency to prevent the disappearance of the sand quarries of Menorca under the rubble, suggestive and spectacular spaces created by the hand of man. Since 1994 Líthica has been developing the comprehensive rehabilitation of the Pedreres de s'Hostal (Canteras de s'Hostal), converted into a recreational and cultural space, always respecting its personality as a quarry, large garden and labyrinth. It promotes quarries as a heritage of man's work in the landscape, testimonies of negative architecture excavated in the rock and spaces colonized by nature. At the same time, the foundation works and collaborates with other entities in the dissemination and defense of the world of the stone culture of Menorca.
PLASTER MINES OF THE PILAR CAVES
The Cuevas del Pilar mines were a gypsum extraction operation, located on the SE side of the Sierra de Son Camps (near the urban centers of La Vileta and Son Rapinya in Palma). These mines are part of the various gypsum exploitations –open pit and galleries– that we can find in the Sierra de na Burguesa
MINES AND CAVES OF THE COMA DE S'ALIGA
Until February 23, 1929 there is no documentation of any request for mining in the area of this work, at least in the aforementioned file, being in that year when Mr. Antoni Sastre Bennassar, carried out the first for the extraction of iron in Coma de s'Aliga, located within the Son Benàtiga Nou estate, file 1572. The name requested for the mine was Rosa, with 20 being the number of belongings requested, the material to be extracted being carbonate of lime stone. On the same day and with file 1573, he requested to acquire 21 more belongings with the same name, for the extraction of iron ore, in the same area.
SALINAS DE BALEARES
On the islands for centuries salt has been extracted from the sea water, an activity that forms a beautiful landscape of rafts and small white mountains where life flourishes: here thousands of birds find rest and food during their intercontinental trips, and around the rafts they grow a vegetation adapted to the wind and salt. A paradise for bird lovers and trekkers, or for those who wish to discover, through a guided tour, the secrets of salt production.
Menorca Geology Center
Inventories are essential to manage and protect geological heritage. In Menorca, several inventories of Places of Geological Interest have been carried out, but with a considerable lack of consensus. In 2016, the Menorca Biosphere Reserve Agency launched a project that had the collaboration and participation of numerous experts from various Balearic institutions and entities, which have led to the preparation of the Inventory of places of geological interest in the Biosphere Reserve of Menorca through the consensus of the actors involved. This inventory is made up of 35 localities that constitute places of great relevance to interpret and recognize the valuable insular geology.
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THE RIOJA
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PIRITAS OF NAVAJUN
If you are fond of mineralogy or want to feel what it is to be a miner for a day, do not hesitate to contact us and take a tour of this place so close and at the same time so forgotten of our land (La Rioja). You will be able to discover in our Concession in a natural way the beauty of the geological heritage and the surprising deposit of pyrites. Extracting yourself the pyrites that so generously appear on our farm. You will experience the sensation of being transported to another world, you will not be able to stop, for something they call it the gold of the madmen, because the abundance of this mineral in our exploitation is simply spectacular.
JUBERA LEAD MINES
The old lead mines are a place of great cultural and historical value in the Jubera Valley. The itinerary is self-guided and tourists can enjoy it by following the explanations of the interpretive panels that have been placed and that refer to a historical and descriptive tour of the work carried out in the mines.
MINING POINTS OF GEOLOGICAL INTEREST IN LA RIOJA
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IGME MUSEUM
The Geominero Museum is a unit of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain, Public Research Organization of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, in whose main headquarters it is located. Due to its functional dependency, it is a State-owned Museum managed by a Public Research Organization. The objectives of the Geominero Museum are to conserve, investigate and disseminate the richness and diversity of the geological, paleontological and mineralogical heritage through the important collections of minerals, rocks and fossils from all Spanish regions and former colonial territories, as well as deposits world record meanings.
MARCELO JORISSEN MUSEUM MINE
Weekly visits will take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, except for national, university or Community of Madrid holidays. Visiting shifts for the school's mine and the Historical-Mining Museum will be at 10am, 12pm and 5pm on the days indicated above. It will also be extended from May to June to cover the entire school year.
HISTORICAL MINING MUSEUM
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Geological park of the valleys of Lozoya and Jarama (Valoja)
From the VaLoJa Association we are promoting the creation of a Geological Park in the Sierra Norte de Madrid around the Lozoya and Jarama valleys. A “Geological Park” is a name that is already used by other initiatives for the dissemination of Geological Heritage in Spain (1), and that unlike the “Geopark”, it is not official (and therefore, without legal regulations).
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ESTREMADURA
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THE MINING TOWN OF ALDEA MORET
The urban settlement of Aldea Moret, arises from the discovery of phosphates in 1864 by Don Francisco Lorenzo Acuña "the friar", who frequently visited "el Calerizo" and noticed a white rock that turned out to be rich limestone in phosphate, found in the vicinity of what would be the "Abundancia" mine. From then on (1875-1980) a whole phosphate industry was generated in Calerizo Cacereño.
La Jayona Mine
La Jayona Mine is an example of abandoned mining, whose environmental recovery has generated a unique habitat of great geo-ecological interest and an almost magical beauty that has earned it the recognition of a Natural Monument.
EXTREMADURA MINING GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE
One of the lines of action of the Mining Administration of the Junta de Extremadura is the enhancement of its rich Mining Heritage, with the aim of generating new cultural and tourist resources and their inclusion in tourist itineraries; in short, for the revitalization of nearby towns, the increase in the tourist offer and the creation of employment. For this, it has undertaken the inventory and cataloging of old mining operations with significant heritage value, as well as the development of a series of action and rehabilitation proposals to enhance said heritage, paying special attention to the old mines included in spaces natural protected.
Villuercas Ibores Jara, Geopark
A UNESCO World Geopark, such as Villuercas-Ibores-Jara, is a territory that has a geological heritage of international value visible in the aesthetic quality of its landscape and recognizable by the scientific, tourist and educational stories that can be heard while it we visited. The geological heritage, together with the rest of the natural and cultural heritage, represents for the society of its territory the basis of its own sustainable development strategy. The Geoparks also develop extensive national and international cooperation that undoubtedly generates new experiences, opportunities and initiatives that facilitate growth and enhancement of the rural environment in which they are embedded.
MONFRAGUE GEOCENTER
In addition, an activity program has been designed for schools, consisting of a one-day guided visit to the Monfragüe GeoCentro and geology workshops. Subsequently, the route to the Zamarro reservoir is made (included in the Piñuela route), which has a total route of 5.5 km with a stop at the astronomical observatory of the Era de los Santos. In the afternoon, we go to the Arrocampo Ornithological Park to observe birds of special interest, such as the purple swamphen, the purple heron, the marsh harrier or the spoonbill. Reservations are made on the telephone number indicated above or by any of the other available means also indicated.
Mining Geological Museum of Santa Marta "José María Fernández Amo"
The Geological and Mining Museum of Santa Marta houses one of the largest collections of minerals in southwestern Iberia. It also has all kinds of activities related to mineralogy and mining that attract the attention of both experts and laymen in these matters, due to the spectacular nature of some pieces.
COSTANAZA DE LOGROSAN MINE
Did you know that the Villuercas IboresJara Geopark exhibits one of the oldest geographical areas in all of Europe? The emblematic rocky crest of the Villuercas Mountains constitutes, in fact, one of the best examples of Appalachian relief in Europe. The Costanaza mine in Logrosán is one of the 44 so-called geosites within the impressive Villuercas Ibores Jara Geopark. It was economically exploited from the 19th century to the mid-20th century.
GEOEMERITE
It has its origin in the Extremadura Geology Museum, inaugurated in 1991 thanks to the collection contributed by the geologist Don Vicente Sos Baynat. It is made up of two rooms: in Room I, there are several showcases (Paleontology, Petrology and Applications of Geology); In Room II, there are three showcases on Mineralogy, dedicated to Extremadura minerals, silicates and metallic and non-metallic ores, respectively.
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GALICIA
7 DESTINATIONS TO DO MINING TOURISM.
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FONTAO MINING MUSEUM
Although there are indications of the ancient use of the resources of this mine, the intense extractive activity generated in the heat of the rise in the prices of the metals extracted here during the 20th century, caused a small village in the interior of Galicia to become a hotbed of people of diverse origin and condition, elements typical of a novel, which formed what could be called a kind of Galician far west. The use of the resources of this mine was possible thanks to a sufficient financial, human and technical capital, to the point that, in periods when metal prices fell, the mining business was still possible due to the determined The operator's commitment to modernization and continuous improvement, while the rest of the mines were forced to close.
The Caldesiños Mines
It was a secondary mine, that is, the gold ore particles and nuggets were separated from the clay soil after intensive washing and tamping of the soil.
MINING ROUTES IN GALICIA
I have to admit that the mining routes in my land are engaging, discovering that hard work at the foot of the mine is impressive, noticing yourself traveling the trails until their effort is exploited and the life of those who worked on them moves inside. Luckily today these mines rest without enduring our constant wounds in search of treasures.
GALICIA MINERAL MUSEUM
In October 2011 the Museum of Minerals of Galicia, MINERGAL, was inaugurated, which was created at the initiative of the Xunta de Galicia and the companies of the granite sector of O Porriño. Since then, the museum has been very well received, being the subject of numerous visits, mainly from schools and institutes.
SAN FINX MINES
A documented history of the San Finx mines, began when a British citizen Sir Thomas Winter Burbury visited the Noia area in the 1880s and, after conducting some prospecting, he applied for tin mining concessions. These were situated at the poles of Noia, and the gilded fóronlle or his nephew Sir Henry Winter Burbury. The latter continues to face prospecting and in 1890 he appears as the owner of the Phenicia concession, registered in the Rexistro da Propiedade de Noia, located in San Finx, and which would become or during the 20th century, together with the operation of five paper factories in the beiras do San Xusto and Vilacova river, not a reference of the industrial heritage of the Lousame council. In addition, this xacemento has become the economic engine of Lousame and all around the central decades of the twentieth century, which or that predominated was a little need and fame.
CERCEDA MINING MUSEUM
Inaugurated in 2015, I want to showcase a great landscape and socioeconomic impact that implies the existence of the Meirama Mine in Cerceda. Collect a small explanation both of the origin of coal and of two different types, later relating the social, economic and labor repercussions that led to the appearance of coal in 1974, passing through the explanation two works that for more than 30 years were fixed in the Meirama Mine and topping off the great, important and essential environmental recovery of all or territory affected by Minas Gerais activities.
Municipal geological museum of Quiroga
The municipal geological museum of Quiroga was inaugurated in December 2011 and responds to the concern for the dissemination of geological heritage, becoming the first installation of its kind in the entire Autonomous Community of Galicia. The content of the Geological Museum of Quiroga is divided into five thematic rooms
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