Mining, quarrying and milling heritage in Occitanie

Carrière
11160 Caunes-Minervois

The King's quarry, exploited in the 17th and 18th centuries at Caunes-Minervois (Occitanie), is an ancient extract of jasper marble that provided Versailles and other French monuments. Ranked in 2006, it bears witness to the golden age of Languedoc marbles.

Puits de mine
30110 La Grand-Combe

The Ricard well, a former 20th-century coal mine in La Grand-Combe (Gard), is an iconic mining site transformed into a museum, classified as a historical monument in 2008. Its metal straddling and its installations testify to the Cevenola industrial history.

Mine
46230 Bach

The Aural Cloup Phosphatory in Bach (Lot) is an ancient 19th-century open-pit phosphate mine, famous for its tertiary fossils and its historical exploitation in Quercy.

Mine
09240 La Bastide-de-Sérou

The Goutile copper mine, operated during the Gallo-Roman period, is located near La Bastide-de-Sérou in Ariège. Classified as a historic monument, it bears witness to ancient mining techniques in the central Pyrenees.

12360 Montagnol

The Cenomes silver mine, located in Montagnol, Occitanie, is a mining site operated from Roman antiquity and reactivated in the Middle Ages by Cistercians. It shows various extraction techniques over centuries.

12300 Decazeville

The mining well of La Découverte, built at the beginning of the 20th century in Decazeville (Occitanie), is an emblematic vestige of the mining industry of Aveyron, classified as a Historical Monument in 2019.

30210 Vers-Pont-du-Gard

The Southern Estel quarry, located in Vers-Pont-du-Gard in Occitanie, is a historic site combining ancient exploitation and 18th-century appliance house, a witness to past extraction techniques.

30260 Montmirat

The Roman quarries of the Roquet, an ancient archaeological site located in Montmirat in the Gard, bear witness to mining under the Roman Empire in Occitanie.