Ancient zinc mine in Kelmis (La Calamine) in Belgium
Vieille Montagne factory in Angleur
Vieille Montagne (French pronunciation:[vjɛjmɔ̃taɲ]) was a zinc mine in Kelmis (La Calamine), a town in Belgium between Liège and Aachen. The mine's name is French for "old mountain" or "old mine", and this is also reflected in its German name, Altenberg (earlier, Alten Galmei-Berg).[1] The mine was once a bone of contention between Prussia on the one side and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (later Belgium) on the other, that resulted in a piece of land that became the territory of Neutral Moresnet.
^Hoch, Charles (1882), The Neutral Territory of Moresnet, trans. William Warren Tucker, p 6
VieilleMontagne (French pronunciation: [vjɛj mɔ̃taɲ]) was a zinc mine in Kelmis (La Calamine), a town in Belgium between Liège and Aachen. The mine's...
occurs in solid brown masses. It was discovered in 1829 in the Belgian Vieille-Montagne mine. Armand Lévy was shown samples by a student at the university...
Kelmis proper, Hergenrath, and Neu-Moresnet. The territory around the VieilleMontagne zinc mine in Kelmis was Neutral Moresnet, a neutral condominium of...
efficiency. In 1922, the Masua mines were acquired by the Belgian VieilleMontagne Company, and exploitation increased with the growing need for zinc...
mainly because of a valuable zinc spar mine named Altenberg (German) or VieilleMontagne (French) located there. The governments of both the Netherlands and...
activist, and Esperantist. He was the chief medical doctor of the VieilleMontagne mining company. As an avid philatelist, he tried to organize a local...
metals companies in which it held a significant stake: zinc producer VieilleMontagne (with a history stretching back to 1805); Metallurgie Hoboken-Overpelt [nl]...
Montagne du Fourneau is a mountain in the Lac-Témiscouata National Park in Quebec, Canada. It owes its name to the fact that during the first half of the...
for their deposits of hemimorphite of metasomatic origin, especially VieilleMontagne in Belgium and Aachen in Germany. Other deposits are in Tarnowskie...
Blegny-Mine Bois du Cazier Bois du Luc Coal mine of Hasard de Cheratte Coal mine du Gouffre Grand Hornu Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes VieilleMontagne...
metallurgies were established in the region. In 1888-1889 the metallurgy La VieilleMontagne was founded in Balen-Nete, close to the Iron Rhine and the canal to...
near Kreuztal, North Rhine-Westphalia Altenberg, the German name for VieilleMontagne (old mountain in French), a former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet, Belgium...
connection with remediation measures. These were again the result of the VieilleMontagne zinc factory, located in the neighboring Wezel. In the early 1960s...
and sauconite. It was first described in 1927 for an occurrence in VieilleMontagne, Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium. It was named for Julien Jean Joseph...
time. The Company finally wound up in 1905, selling the mines to the VieilleMontagne Company who worked them for zinc up until the Second World War. Many...
village is famous for its mining industry started by the Belgian company VieilleMontagne in 1857, hence the name Zinkgruvan (literally "the zinc mine" in English)...
notes the first reference to 1805, in J.-J. Lionnois, Hist. des villes vieille et neuve de Nancy..., Nancy, t. 1, p. 80 Hamlyn (2 August 2018). New Larousse...
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