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VIEILLE MONTAGNE – RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT – NEWS

* VIEILLE MONTAGNE MUSEUM TO BE OPENED IN KELMIS
* Rampill Ore-Dressing Mill in Nenthead is due for demolition this year (2017). We hope that representative samples of its structure can be saved for posterity, particularly from the zinc roof.
* The Gohltal Museum in Kelmis, Moresnet, Belgium, will be moving to a new home – the former Vieille Montagne offices.
* Ideas are germinating for a one-day VM event in Nenthead in Cumbria, England, this year.
* Funding is being sought for an archivist to catalogue the hundreds of shelf metres of Vieille Montagne files in the State Archives in Belgium.
* The Vieille Montagne display is on view at the Italian ‘Barracks’ at Nenthead. (See Nenthead Mines Conservation Society website for opening times)
* A hole in the ground has appeared outside the LVR Museum of the Rhineland, a former zinc works in Oberhausen, Germany, providing a good opportunity for some on-site industrial archaeology.
* Documentary investigation is ongoing into the VM trials in Welsh mines around 1896-1900.
* Many of the Italians and some of the Germans who worked at Nenthead in Cumbria from 1903-1915 have been identified from church and civil records, an excellent start for international family history research

written by: Dott. Mauro Buosi

The Vieille Montagne in Germany

The Vieille Montagne
in Germany

Germany

Author:

Daniel Sobanski

Germany was the first foreign country the VM expanded to. The VM realized the importance of Prussia and other German states (German as a national state was founded in 1871) as a sales market shortly after its foundation. However, there were great tariff barriers that made a profitable export of zinc products from Belgium nearly impossible.

Porto Flavia

Porto Flavia
Vieille Montagne Mine

Sardinia, Italy.

Author:

Dott. Mauro Buosi

The trasportation of minerals deriving from exploration of the mines in the lglesiente district invariably constituted a considerable problem with regard to the economic yield of these mines. The majority of mines, considering the lack of docks suited to the loading of large merchant ships, provided for transport of their products using the services of the Galanzè watermen from the S.Pietro island,