Mining town

A mining town ( English mining town ) or mining community (English mining community ) is a settlement , the employee of a nearby, mine is built and their families and entertained. The World Bank speaks of mine-impacted communities . H. communities influenced by mines. These are therefore planned cities that are often privately owned by mining companies .

Examples of mining towns are Arandis , Rosh Pinah and Uis as well as historically Oranjemund and Kolmanskuppe in Namibia , Tabubil in Papua New Guinea , Novohrodiwka in Ukraine and Ibbenbüren ( Germany ) or Collie in Australia .

Indistinguishable from a mining town is a historically developed in some countries of Central Europe mountain town , the special legal provisions (eg. As in tax matters) could get.

literature

Natalie Hyde: Life in a Mining Community. Crabtree Publishing Company, Ontario 2010, ISBN 978-0-7787-5074-1 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Mining town - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

A Quick Guide to Community Development , Euromines (English)

Individual evidence

↑ mining town. Lexicon of Geography, 2001.
^ Natalie Hyde: Life in a Mining Community. Crabtree Publishing Company, Ontario 2010, pp. 4 f, ISBN 978-0-7787-5074-1
^ Mining Community Development Agreements Source Book. World Bank, March 2012.
↑ Introduction to city history, city types. University of Münster. Retrieved August 4, 2017.

[1] mining town. Lexicon of Geography, 2001.

[2] Natalie Hyde: Life in a Mining Community. Crabtree Publishing Company, Ontario 2010, pp. 4 f, ISBN 978-0-7787-5074-1

[3] Mining Community Development Agreements Source Book. World Bank, March 2012.

[4] Introduction to city history, city types. University of Münster. Retrieved August 4, 2017.