Le musée de la mine est un musée à Cagnac-les-Mines, dans le Tarn, en région Occitanie, et situé sur l'ancien puits de mine de Campgrand, appartenant au bassin houiller de Carmaux.
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Cagnac-les-Mines is a commune in the southern French department of Tarn.
It is a former coal-mining town for workers of the Compagnie minière de Carmaux, and has a mining museum.
Exposed to a modified oceanic climate, it is drained by the Vère, the Mouline stream, and several other small waterways.
Cagnac-les-Mines is a rural commune with a population of 2,621. It is part of the Albi metropolitan area. Its inhabitants are called Cagnacois or Cagnacoises.
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Le Garric is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
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The Compagnie minière de Carmaux, or Société des mines de Carmaux, was one of the first coal mining companies in France.
It was founded in 1752 in the isolated Carmaux basin.
The company was at first slow to expand and modernize, but grew much faster after the introduction of a railway connection in the 1850s.
A strike in 1892 drew national attention and had an important impact on French labour relations.
By 1900 there were almost 3,500 miners and 500,000 tons of coal were produced each year.
Demands increased with the two world wars of the 20th century, and foreign miners were brought in to compensate for shortage of French laborers.
The company was nationalized in 1946.
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Blaye-les-Mines is a commune in the Tarn department and Occitanie region of southern France.
The settlement grew up around the home of Gabriel de Solages, who founded the Compagnie minière de Carmaux and a glassworks at his château at Blaye.
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