History of Mining and Mineral Exploration


This webring is dedicated to websites covering the history of mines and mining, history of mining and minerals exploration and prospecting, history of mining companies, history of miners and mining associations, history of mining towns, and related histories.  




Site gives an alphabetic list of books about mining history, currently available.

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Page perso de Mrugala Fabrice, informations sur l'histoire (antique, medievale, moderne, renaissance, ...) et sur les religions et mythologies anciennes.

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The "Top Mining Sites" is a list of websites about mines and mining, mining engineers, miners and prospectors, minerals industry, exploration and prospecting, economic minerals and ores, mining history, and related topics. The order of the sites in the list is determined by the number of votes and the number of hits each site receives by visitors to the sites. The more votes the site receives, the higher in the list. This is a great place to showcase your mining websites. If you have a webpage wholly or partially about mines or mining, join today. If you have more than one, you may add all of them.

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This is the homepage for the "History of Mining and Mineral Exploration WebRing" and gives the information about this ring.

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Driving over the Stunner Pass between Chama and Del Norte, I came across the old ghost town of Summitville - a former gold mining town

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A look at historic sites and old mining camps of Nevada.

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Site gives an extensive list of books about Mining and Mining Engineering, Mines, Miners, Prospecting, Mining History, Economic Minerals, and some Geological, Geotechnical, and Petroleum Engineering & exploration, that are currently available.

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Photos and travel descriptions of our journeys to ghost towns and other historical frontier, pioneer, native american indian, and mining sites, primarily in the American Southwest.

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Levis jeans from underground - California, Gold Rush - Buying, Selling & Appraisal of Old Vintage Denim, Jeans, Miner and Miner's Clothing from Abandoned Mine Shaft - Mining Artifacts and Relics

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A site dedicated to the photographic history of Kentucky coal mining and its miners.

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Estonian mining professionals and enterprises

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This site has many great pictures, stories, legends and history of ghost towns, mining camps and haunted sites of the "Old West." States included are AZ, CO, NE, NV, NM, SD, UT & WY.

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Using GIS for describing and analysing mining conditions

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Mining related geocaches - add yours

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This homepage shows more than 100 collieries from the Ruhr region in Germany with help of old postcards (1900-1925). Let you invite to a historically trip through the golden age of the coal-mining era in Germany. Languages: German and English. New: postcard views (1900-1925) of coal mines in the "Anthracite region" in Pennsylvania / USA and since May 2008 postcard vie

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