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Wieliczka

Heritage site, Poland, founded 1123.

About Wieliczka

City of Poland. Wieliczka salt mine, inscribed in 1978 and extended later to include Bochnia.1,2

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Mines

Worked atWieliczka Salt MineWieliczka lies close to Wieliczka Salt Mine.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q472621 (Wieliczka)
  2. Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Ore sorting by Tomra Sorting GmbH, CC BY-SA 4.0; The Big Hole by Rudolph Botha, CC BY-SA 3.0. Pictures: Dolcoath tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall: miners in a mine shaft, standing on wooden platforms connected by ladders. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910., Burrow, J. C., 1852-1914 (Public Domain Mark 1.0).