Some members of our group are engaged also quite intensively with the old mining industry.
The intention thereby is to keep mining history alive.

Many documents are lost by the closing from local mining authorities and time witnesses are soon no longer available.
In particular the Ruhr district can look back on a intensive mining history, which comes more and more back into public consciousness.

In contrast to caving activities here the work at archives is important, since mines were created by human hand and are thus inevitably linked with their history and social surrounding field.
Unfortunately the practical work is very difficult particularly in Germany.
Offical documents stored at active local mining authorities are are not freely accessible and e.g. photo documentation taken in real mining is not possible in the most cases or only under very difficult conditions.
Therefore a good co-operation between different local groups is strongly recommended , in
order to be able to exchange experiences and necessary contacts.
We have also made some good experiences in some regions, where we could practise mining official in an easy way.

However it should always be clear that practical mining is very dangerous and should only be done by experienced people.

In the Ruhr district we operate in close contact with associations, which are working to keep the knowledge around the old mining industry. There is also a co-operation with the Grubenarchäologischen Gesellschaft (GAG) .