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Mining, quarrying and milling heritage in Occitanie

Retrouvez les 7 mining, quarrying and milling in the Occitan region recensés par Musée du Patrimoine de France.
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Campgrand coal mine well in Cagnac-les-Mines
Mine wells
81130 Cagnac-les-Mines

The Campgrand mine well, a 19th-century industrial complex at Cagnac-les-Mines (Occitanie), comprises two coal extraction wells and now houses a mining museum. Symbol of the Tarna industrial era.
Former Bocard Silver Lead Mine
Mine
48220 Vialas

The former Bocard Silver Lead Mine, located in Vialas, Occitanie, is an industrial vestige of the 19th century, marked by its peak in 1868 and its closure in 1894, illustrating the mining history of the region.
Career of the King of Caunes-Minervois
Career
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.
Biot mill marbrier set in Félines-Minervois
Watermill
34210 Félines-Minervois

The marbrier complex of the Biot mill, located in Félines-Minervois (Occitanie), is an industrial testimony of the mid-19th century using wind energy to saw the marble of the Minervois.
La Bastide de Sérou copper mine
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.
Puits Ricard de La Grand-Combe
Mine wells
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.
Chevalisation of the Discovery Mine Well

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.
Silver Mine

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.