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Over
a period of fifteen years, the Mining Museum Association has amassed a great
number of pieces, tools, machinery and documents from the old iron workings, all
of which will be on display in the Museum itself. One of the highlights is the
largest collection in the Basque Country of light trucks and wagons used the
iron ore.
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Another
outstanding exhibit is an aerial bucket ropeway, comprising several sections,
which has been restored to full working order. There are also ore washeries and
other examples of the machines used in Bizkaia's historic mining. Featured
among the lesser exhibits are items of daily use as lamps, "txoklos"
(typical footwear), theodolites, rock drills, long-handled spoons (used to extract
unexploded dynamite from charge-holes) , wagon-counting abacus , masks, etc.. In
many cases, these pieces may well be the sole-surviving ones from the Golden Age
of the mining in Bizkaia (late 19th to early 20th century). Likewise,
it is also worth a mentioning the mine painting collections-works of art carried
out by knowledge artists representing their vision of the mines.
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Present Time:
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| Nowadays we have, in collaboration with the Sciences
Society 'Aranzadi', the exposition titled "Nature, Geology and
Mining Patrimony in Irún". Also one could see a pattern of the
Museum backgrounds, especially about historic photography and painting
of the mines, as well as objects and tools of the Iron mining in Bizkaia. |
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