Talk:Mining tourism

A picture

Look at this

If this picture is not a good banner, it might still be a good picture to put somewhere into the article... Hobbitschuster (talk) 22:29, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

give it a go anyways JarrahTree (talk) 01:17, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

I was browsing for a good photo that can be cropped to banner, the one suggested by Hobbitschuster is the best so far. --Erik den yngre (talk) 13:55, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Coal Mines

Do coal mines count? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:39, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Why not? I was actually kind of thinking of something like this to be included as well. And of course the coal related heritage of Europe's "rust belts" be it the Ruhr or "oop North" in England or parts of Silesia... Hobbitschuster (talk) 22:46, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Wales

Found 10 or so on an a semi official site here :- http://www.visitwales.com/things-to-do/attractions/museums-galleries/underground-attractions

Take your pick ( LOL) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 23:10, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Distinctions? sections?

Do we need to talk about the differences between open pit (w:Surface mining) & underground mines? or w:Underground mining (hard rock) vs. w:Underground mining (soft rock)?

Should we perhaps have sections based on these distinctions? (My guess is no.) Or some discussion in Understand? (I think yes) Then some sort of tags in the listings to indicate type of mine? Or just mention the type of mineral in listings, and maybe label open pit mines? Pashley (talk) 04:56, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

I think for the traveller it is an important distinction, should be clear from the description of the site, perhaps like a tag. --Erik den yngre (talk) 10:48, 12 December 2015 (UTC).

I think it should be clear from the way a listing is formulated what we are dealing with. And the understand section can certainly be expanded to include a discussion of said issues. Hobbitschuster (talk) 10:58, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Mønsted Kalkgruber

Noted this whilst lookign for something else, I don't speak Danish though and there doesn't seem to be a English version.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:34, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

I can read Danish, so I googled the mine. Then I noticed they have an English site; http://www.monsted-kalkgruber.dk/en --ϒpsilon (talk) 17:32, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Feel free to add it based on the English (or Danish Site). I think it meets the inclusion criteria :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:16, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Status

Does this have to be an "outlibe"? Hobbitschuster (talk) 12:01, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

It's probably Usable, so I'll go ahead and change it, knowing that anyone can change it back. I like the "Understand" section and the pictures, and there are a fair number of listings with real content. I'm sure loads more content could be put into this guide, and eventually, it would be good to do so, but a person could certainly use this guide effectively. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:43, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Environmental disaster ghost towns

Should we include ghost towns like Centralia PA (abandoned due to a long-extant underground coal fire) or Picher OK (badly undermined and abandoned due to lead contamination)? There might not still be an active or historic mine to visit (Picher's mining museum artefacts were moved to Baxter Springs, for instance) but the environmental damage is permanent and visible. K7L (talk) 02:43, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

There's also that natural gas fire (I think it is) that's been running for 2 or 3 decades in, I think, Kazakhstan. Seems like a somewhat different type of tourism. Perhaps worth mentioning here, but I think it should be covered in more detail in another article such as "disaster tourism" or something (don't we have a topic that already lists places like that?) Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:45, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

w:Disaster tourism exists, but focusses disproportionately on Hurricane Katrina. We don't have the topic here, although nuclear tourism mentions Chornobyl, ghost towns and archaeological sites might include a few historical disaster areas and a few well-known destinations like Pompeii have individual articles. K7L (talk) 11:25, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Detailed listings

Region articles should not have detailed listings for points of interest, restaurants, shops, or hotels. Wikivoyage:Region article template says:

"Individual listings should be placed at the lowest available level of local page (a district of a huge city or the city page for a small town)."

"points of interest (such as those mentioned in "See" sections) should not usually have markers in region articles but should be linked to the bottom-level article where they have full listings."

Ground Zero (talk) 21:27, 3 March 2024 (UTC)