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  2. Slate industry - Wikipedia

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    Slate mines are found around the world. 90% of Europe's natural slate used for roofing originates from the Slate Industry in Spain. [1] The major slate mining region in the United Kingdom is the Lake district, with Honister slate mine being the last working slate mine, the only producers of the world famous Westmorland greenslate.

  3. Röhrigschacht - Wikipedia

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    The former copper slate mine of Röhrigschacht with its head frame Close up of the Röhrigschacht head frame. The Röhrigschacht ("Röhrig Shaft") is an old copper slate mine which is now a mining museum and show mine in the village of Wettelrode in the county of Mansfeld-Südharz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

  4. Fell Exhibition Slate Mine - Wikipedia

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    Adjacent to the exhibition mine, there is a small documentation centre, "Mine and Wine", which exhibits rare slate mining and wine-making tools. A continuous video presentation about modern slate mining in Europe taking place in the Rathscheck slate mine near Mayen. The small museum has statue of Saint Barbara from 1897 on display.

  5. Slate - Wikipedia

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    Lesser slate-producing regions in present-day Europe include Wales (with UNESCO landscape status and a museum at Llanberis), Cornwall (famously the village of Delabole), Cumbria (see Burlington Slate Quarries, Honister Slate Mine and Skiddaw Slate) and, formerly in the West Highlands of Scotland, around Ballachulish and the Slate Islands in the ...

  6. Slate industry in Wales - Wikipedia

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    Penrhyn and Dinorwig were the two largest slate quarries in the world, and the Oakeley mine at Blaenau Ffestiniog was the largest slate mine in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Slate is mainly used for roofing, but is also produced as thicker slab for a variety of uses including flooring, worktops and headstones .

  7. Slate industry in Spain - Wikipedia

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    The Galician slate industry is a major employer in the region and in the main slate is extracted from surface quarries. The process is as follows: [6] Geological surveys locate areas of potential slate extraction; Samples are taken to allow the purity and quality of the slate to be verified.

  8. Llechwedd Slate Caverns - Wikipedia

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    The main aspect of Llechwedd is its Llechwedd Deep Mine Tour which has the steepest narrow gauge railway in the UK and travels over 500 feet underground to the disused slate caverns, and the Quarry Explorer Tour which heads out to the furthest reaches of the Llechwedd site to explore the history of mining in the area.

  9. Gloddfa Ganol - Wikipedia

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    The Oakeley slate quarry was the largest underground slate mine in the world, [1] but it suffered from a sharp decline in worldwide demand for slate after the Second World War. As quarrying declined in the 1970s, the owners sought to diversify to serve the growing tourist trade in Wales.