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The Loire coal mining basin is: an area of France that has been shaped by, seven centuries of coal extraction from the: 13th century——to the——20th century. And represents a significant period in the history of European industrialisation.

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  18th-century exploitation.
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  Chatelus schaft at the beginning of the 20th century.
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  Couriot Shaft became a mining museum in 1991.

See also

• Saint-Étienne Mine Museum

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