Among the oldest of technologies, the extractive industries refer to those processes that involve the removal and processing of raw materials from the earth: mines,…
The mines of Butte, Montana led the world in the supply of copper from 1887 through the First World War. This period corresponds in human…
There is a growing interest worldwide in preserving and promoting industrial heritage as cultural landscape resources. This is proven by the increasing number of inscribed…
This paper explores the ways that communities, the iron industry, and the state responded to iron mining development in Minnesota’s Mesabi Range. The Mesabi Range…
Penrith Lakes: Staging Landscape Artifice and Aboriginal Heritage in Western Sydney | Jennifer Ferng
Inaugurated by the Penrith Lakes Development Corporation in 1981, this two thousand hectare site located near the foot of the Blue Mountains, meant to replicate…
Activities related to the extraction and exploitation of natural resources are varied in Tunisia. But the most important numerically and spatially are stone quarries, which,…
Formal historic preservation is a professional and sanctioned approach to the conservation of our historically significant built cultural heritage. Postindustrial landscapes are, by definition, functionally…
Photographic archives are a potential source of knowledge in industrial heritage. This paper deals with the case of the main mining sites developed in Francoist…
Sites created for and abandoned by hardrock mining operations in the Rocky Mountain West are among the most layered, complex, and noteworthy landscapes in America,…
The Pennsylvania “Slate Belt,” an area of only twenty-two square miles, lies approximately fifty miles to the northwest of Philadelphia and just south of Blue…
