Mining community

A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community that houses miners. Mining communities are usually created around a mine or a quarry.

Partizánska Ľupča in Slovakia. Now a village with 1300 inhabitants but in 14th-19th centuries an important mining town with more than 4000. Several houses still have an urban character.
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, in 1957.

Historical mining communities

Australia

Austria

Austria-Hungary

Upper Austrio-Hungarian mining towns (Slovakia)

Lower Austrio-Hungarian mining towns (Hungary)

  • Ruda, today Rudabánya in Hungary
  • Telken, today Telkibánya in Hungary

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Canada

Czechia

(Listed under names given when founded or working as a mining town)

Finland

Germany

In Germany, a Bergstadt refers to a settlement near mineral deposits vested with town privileges, Bergregal rights and tax exemption, in order to promote the economic development of the mining region.

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Lower Saxony

North Rhine-Westphalia

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Thuringia

Hong Kong
  • Ma On Shan Village

Indonesia
  • Central Papua Province
    • Tembagapura

Nigeria

Norway

Poland
  • Georgenberg (now Miasteczko Śląskie)
  • Goldberg, (now Złotoryja)
  • Groß Salze, (now Wieliczka)
  • Nikolstadt, (now Mikołajowice)
  • Salzberg, (now Bochnia)
  • Wilhelmstal, (now Bolesławów)

Slovenia

South Korea

Alaska

Arizona

California

Colorado

Idaho

Iowa

Michigan

Minnesota

Montana

Nevada

New Mexico

South Dakota

Utah

Wisconsin

See also

References

    Citations
    • Sherman, James E; Barbara H. Sherman (1969). Ghost Towns of Arizona. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-0843-6. Book features pg. 147 about what is necessary for a settlement to have in order to be considered a "mining town".
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