Loire coal mining basin
French 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.
- 18th-century exploitation.
- Chatelus schaft at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Couriot Shaft became a mining museum in 1991.
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