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Showing posts with label Extractive industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extractive industry. Show all posts
March 13, 2020

3459 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - The Piran salt pans

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3459 A salt-pan family in a traditional house in Piran during salt harvesting in summer. Piran , considered by some the most beautif...
January 25, 2016

2242 POLAND (Silesia) - Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine and its Underground Water Management System (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)

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Tarnowskie Góry (German: Tarnowitz, established in 1526) is an old, picturesque town in the Silesian Highlands , near Katowice , known...
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December 28, 2015

2160 POLAND (Lesser Poland) - Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines (UNESCO WHS)

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Located in southern Poland , the deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka and Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century, this major indus...
November 30, 2015

2087 UNITED STATES (California) - Bakersfield

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Located near the southern "horseshoe" end of the San Joaquin Valley , with the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada just to the...
September 4, 2015

1874 UNITED KINGDOM (Turks and Caicos Islands) - Salt Raking at Salt Cay

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Salt Cay is a tiny, flat, triangular island, with an area of only 6.7 sq km and a population of less than 100. Around 1673, British Co...
July 19, 2015

1756 ROMANIA (Suceava) - The Cacica salt mine

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Located in the village with the same name, in Bukovina , at the eastern foot of the Obcina Mare (Great Ridge), the Cacica salt mine ...
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January 23, 2015

1416 UNITED STATES (California) - Panning for Gold

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Gold is usually found in two forms: in veins or lodes and in river beds or near them, where the metal is called alluvial gold. Gold is ...
October 13, 2014

1296 NEW ZEALAND (North Island) - Waihi, the Heart of Gold

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Located in the Coromandel Peninsula , one of the great gold mining districts of the world, Waihi is a little settlement (4,503 inhab...
June 11, 2014

1098 MADAGASCAR - Children of the miners of Ilakaka

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Not rarely, in the world turned upside down in which we live, in countries rich in terms of natural resources live the poorest people. ...
March 8, 2014

1027 CHILE (Tarapacá) - Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works (UNESCO WHS)

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  The gunpowder is only a simple mix of sulphur , charcoal and saltpeter , but it is known how much it influenced our history. Well, ...
June 26, 2013

0699 SPAIN (Castile-La Mancha) - Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija - Almadén (UNESCO WHS)

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Mercury is a relatively rare metal, with a decisive role in the extraction of silver and gold, so the possesion of the mercury mines ha...
September 16, 2012

0333 CHILE (Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins) - Sewell Mining Town (UNESCO WHS)

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Situated in the Andes, on volcano Cerro Negro, at about 2100m high, 80km from Santiago and 60km to the east of Rancagua, in an environm...
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