History/Tourism

Mining History and Tourism

Links To Mining History

• Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum
• Asarco Mineral Discovery Center
• Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine
• Big Brutus Mining Museum
• Big South Fork Scenic Railway
• Black Diamond Net
• Blue Heron Mining Community
• British Mining History
• Chervenitski Coal - One of the largest collections of images on the internet relating to the Pennsylvania anthracite industry.
• Coal WWW Virtual Library
• Comer Museum
• Crown King, Arizona
• Dennison Depot Railroad Museum
• The Gem Of Egypt, Cadiz, Ohio - Consolidation Coal Company
• Ghost Towns of Arizona
• Ghost Towns of the West
• Haig Colliery Mining Museum
• Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park
• Harrison County History Of Coal Museum
• Historical Construction Equipment Association
• Historical Construction Equipment Association-Ohio Valley Chapter
• International Archive of Economic Geology
• International Watch Fob Association
• Kentucky Coal Education History Page
• Matewan Website
• The Meadow Colliery
• The Mineralogical Society of Arizona
• Mining History Association
• Mining the Hard Rock in the Silverton San Juans
• The Mountaineer, Cadiz, Ohio - Consolidation Coal Company
• Ore Mines of Birmingham
• Phelps-Dodge mine tours
• Pinehill Press - Coal mine history book publishing.
• Portal 31, Kentucky's First Exhibition Coal Mine
• Project Mine
• The Silver Spade, Cadiz, Ohio - Consolidation Coal Company's first Bucyrus-Erie 1950-B stripping shovel.
• Sir Humphry Davy History
• Society For Industrial Archeology
• Soudan Underground Mine State Park
• Southern West Virginia Coal Fields, A presentation of historically significant coal mining towns in Southern West Virginia.
• The Stripmine
• Sweetwater County Memorial Hospital Miner's Clinic
• The South Carolina Gold Museum
• Western Museum of Mining & Industry
• Western Pennsylvania Coalfields

TOURISM

 

Barthell Coal Mining Camp

 

Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum
P. O. Box 391, 205 N. Walker St.
Marion, KY 42064
Phone: (270) 965-4263
Fax: (270) 965-3083
E-mail: becmus@apex.net

 

The Big Muskie Bucket and Miners' Memorial Park

 

Big South Fork Scenic Railway
P.O. Box 368
21 Main Street
Stearns, KY 42647
Toll Free: 1-800-GO-ALONG (1-800-462-5664)
Phone: 606-376-5330
Fax: 606-376-5332
E-mail: chessie1@highland.net

 

David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum
Dave Zegeer Museum
P.O. Box 4
Jenkins, KY  41537
Phone: 606-832-4676

 

Eckley Miner's Village
Rural Route 2, Box 236
Weatherly, PA  18255
Phone: (570) 636-2070

 

Kentucky Coal Museum and Portal 31 Exhibition Mine
Benham
Harlan, Kentucky
Phone: (606) 848-1530

 

Lackawanna Coal Mine
McDade Park
Bald Mountain Road
Scranton, PA 18504
Phone: (800) 238-7245 or (570) 963-6463
Fax: (570) 963-6701
E-mail coalmine@lackawannacounty.org

 

Mining History Association
P. O. Box 150300
Denver, Colorado 80215

 

Museum of Anthracite Mining
17th and Pine Streets
Ashland, PA  17921
Schuylkill County
Phone: (717) 875-4708

 

National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum
120 West Ninth Street
Leadville, Colorado 80461
Carl Miller

 

Pocahontas Exhibition Mine and Museum
Town of Pocahontas
Centre Street
Post Office Box 128
Pocahontas, Virginia 24635
(276) 945 - 2134
(276) 945 - 9522

 

Scranton Iron Furnaces
159 Cedar Avenue
Scranton, PA  18505
Lackawanna County
Phone: (570) 963-4804

 

Soudan Underground Mine State Park
P.O. Box 335, Soudan, Minnesota 55782
Phone: (218) 753-2245
E-mail: soudanmine@dnr.state.mn.us

 

Tour-Ed Mine

748 Bull Creek Road Tarentum, Pa 15084
724-224-4720 - info@Tour-EdMine.com

 

The Van Lear Historical Society, Inc. & the Coal Miners' Museum
78 Miller's Creek Road

P.O. Box 369

Van Lear, KY  41265

Museum Phone / Fax: (606) 789 - 8540

email: admin@vanlear.org

 

The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum
R.D.1, Bald Mountain Road
Scranton, PA  18504
McDade Park, off Keyser Avenue
Lackawanna County
Phone: (570) 963-4804

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Mining Internet Services, Inc.
340 S. Broadway, Suite 200
Lexington, KY 40508
Phone: 859-233-2103 Fax: 859-259-3394
E-mail: webmaster@miningusa.com

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