Tarnowskie Gory Mine, Poland

TARNOWSKIE GORY MINE (Poland)

Mining began in Poland's Silesia region in the 16th century. Tarnowskie Góry with its Historic Silver Mine was granted independent status in 1526; the mining industry there ceased in 1912. In the 1950s history buffs worked to open a tourist route; a boat tour of the Black Trout Adit, a part of the drainage system, opened in 1957; tours of part of the mine itself opened in 1976.

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