Loire coal mining basin
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The Loire coal mining basin is an area of France that has been shaped by seven centuries of coal extraction from the 13th century to the 20th century and represents a significant period in the history of European
industrialisation Industrialisation ( alternatively spelled industrialization) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organisation of an econo ...
. File:Mine Loire 18e siècle.jpg, 18th-century exploitation. File:Chatelus.png, Chatelus schaft at the beginning of the 20th century. File:Saint-Étienne-Chevalement du Puits Couriot-20110323.jpg, Couriot Shaft became a mining museum in 1991. ;See also *
Saint-Étienne Mine Museum The Saint-Étienne Mine Museum is a French museum founded in 1991 in the city of Saint-Étienne in the French department of the Loire situated in the Rhône-Alpes region. It presents the facilities of a former coalmine. The site is registered as ...
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