Mining community

Partizánska Ľupča in Slovakia. Now a village with 1300 inhabitants but in 14th-19th centuries an important mining town with more than 4000. Several houses still have an urban character.

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, in 1957.

A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community that houses miners. Mining communities are usually created around a mine or a quarry.

Historic mining communities[]

Australia[]

Ballarat, Victoria
Bendigo, Victoria

Austria[]

Schwaz
Eisenerz, Styria

Bosnia and Herzegovina[]

Canada[]

Cobalt, Ontario
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
Dawson City, Yukon
Lynn Lake, Manitoba
Red Lake, Ontario
Thompson, Manitoba
Timmins, Ontario

Germany[]

In Germany, a Bergstadt refers to a settlement near mineral deposits vested with town privileges, Bergregal rights and tax exemption, in order to promote the economic development of the mining region. Baden-Württemberg

Freudenstadt
Prinzbach

Bavaria

Auerbach in der Oberpfalz
Pegnitz (town)
Bodenmais
Lam
Fichtelberg (Upper Franconia)

Lower Saxony

Altenau
Bad Grund
Clausthal
Zellerfeld
Lautenthal
Obernkirchen
Sankt Andreasberg
Wildemann

North Rhine-Westphalia

Lüdenscheid

Saxony

Altenberg
Annaberg
Berggießhübel
Bleiberg (near Frankenberg/Sa.) (town no longer exists)
Brand
Ehrenfriedersdorf
Eibenstock
Elterlein
Ernstthal
Freiberg
Geyer
Glashütte (Saxony)
Hohenstein
Johanngeorgenstadt
Lengefeld
Lößnitz
Marienberg, Saxony
Oberwiesenthal
Oederan
Scheibenberg
Schneeberg
Schwarzenberg/Erzgeb.
Thum
Voigtsberg
Wolkenstein
Zschopau
Zwönitz

Saxony-Anhalt

Eisleben
Sangerhausen

Thuringia

Nigeria[]

Enugu
Jos

Norway[]

Kongsberg (formerly)
Røros

Poland[]

Georgenberg (now Miasteczko Śląskie)
Goldberg, (now Złotoryja)
Groß Salze, (now Wieliczka)
Nikolstadt, (now Mikołajowice)
Salzberg, (now Bochnia)
Wilhelmstal, (now Bolesławów)

Slovakia/Hungary[]

Upper Austrio-Hungarian mining towns

Göllnitz, today Gelnica
Jossau, today Jasov
Nemecká Ľupča, today Partizánska Ľupča
Schmöllnitz, today Smolník
Rosenau, today Rožňava
Ruda, today Rudabánya in Hungary
Telken, today Telkibánya in Hungary
Zipser Neudorf, today Spišská Nová Ves

Lower Austrio-Hungarian mining towns

Dilln, today Banská Belá
Königsberg, today Nová Baňa
Kremnitz, today Kremnica
Libethen, today Ľubietová
Neusohl, today Banská Bystrica
Pukanz, today Pukanec
Schemnitz, today Banská Štiavnica

Czech Republic[]

(Listed under names given when founded or working as a mining town)

Abertham, today Abertamy
Adamstadt, today Adamov
, today Hůrky
Bärringen, today Pernink
Bergreichenstein, today Kašperské Hory
Bergstadt, today Horní Město
Bleistadt, today Oloví
Böhmisch Wiesenthal, today Loučná pod Klínovcem
Eule, today Jílové u Prahy
St. Georgenthal, today Jiretin pod Jedlovou
Goldeck (Mährisch Altstadt), today Staré Město pod Sněžníkem
Goldenstein, today Branná
Gossengrün, today Krajková
Gottesgab, today Boží Dar
Graupen, today Krupka
Hartmanitz, today Hartmanice
Iglau, today Jihlava
St. Joachimsthal, today Jáchymov
Johannesthal, today Janov
St. Katharinaberg, today Hora Svaté Kateriny
Klostergrab, today Hrob
Kupferberg, today Měděnec
Kuttenberg, today Kutná Hora
(town no longer exists)
Mies, today Stříbro
Neustadt a. d. Tafelfichte, today Nové Město pod Smrkem
Plan, today Planá
Platz, today Místo
Platten, today Horní Blatná
Preßnitz (town no longer exists)
Rudolfstadt, today Rudolfov
Schlaggenwald, today Horní Slavkov
Sebastiansberg, today Hora Svatého Šebestiána
Sonnenberg, today Výsluní
Unterreichenstein, today Rejštejn
Wodnian, today Vodňany
Zuckmantel, today Zlaté Hory

Slovenia[]

References[]

Sherman, James E; Barbara H. Sherman (1969). Ghost Towns of Arizona. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-0843-6. Book features pg. 147 about what is necessary for a settlement to have in order to be considered a "mining town".