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Banska Stiavnica mining district

Banska Stiavnica mining district, Slovakia, mining silver, gold.

Why Banska Stiavnica mining district is famous

Slovak mining town. Wikidata gives a town inception of 1156. Mining history, output and heritage status are not verified from an opened page; see NOTES.md.1

Banska Stiavnica mining district today

Where silver is mined todayWhere gold is mined todayMining in Slovakia

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Mines

An example ofKutna Hora silver minesCentral European silver towns: Banska Stiavnica from 1156, Kutna Hora from the early 1260s.1

Places

Located inBanska StiavnicaBanska Stiavnica mining district sits at Banska Stiavnica.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q208110 (Banska Stiavnica) Wikidata (CC0)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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