An exhibition mine is a mine that is accessible to the public and contains exhibitions about that particular mine and about the mining industry or coal industry in general, effectively doubling as a museum.
Notable exhibition mines Cape Breton Miners Museum - Glace Bay, Nova Scotia El Chiflón del Diablo - Arauco Basin, Chile Fell Exhibition Slate Mine - Trier, Germany Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour - Scranton, Pennsylvania Phillips-Sprague Mine - on the National Register of Historic Places in New River Park, Beckley, West Virginia Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine - Pocahontas, Virginia, United States Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá - Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia Wieliczka Salt Mine – Wieliczka, southern Poland
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