1096 mines of Wallonia in Belgium or cross-border regions such as the Erzgebirge/Krušnohory Mining Region (Czech Republic-Germany). Subsequently, serial entries from several countries began to appear on the UNESCO List, valuing the mining of a single mineral, e.g., the mercury mines of Idrija and Almaden (Slovenia and Spain). Attempts are already underway to prepare applications for the UNESCO List, entering almost the entire geological and mining heritage of a country (Spain) or intercontinental applications, e.g., oil mines in the USA, Canada, and Poland. Another noticeable trend is that while the first mining sites on the List met only one or two of the seven criteria for cultural value, recent applications for inclusion have sought to meet all seven UNESCO evaluation criteria. Inclusion on the UNESCO List still seems to be an important and prestigious matter for mining sites. The main advantages are increased legal protection of the site from urban development, greater opportunities to apply for grants and funds for the protection and management of mining heritage, increased interest in the site and promotion of education about it, and finally, a boost to the development of local tourism. After the Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine was added to the UNESCO List in 2007, 7 million Japanese visited the mine in the following 12 months. Table 1 – Mining sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List: COUNTRY: NAME OF THE SITE: 1. Austria Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape 2. Belgium Major Mining Sites of Wallonia 3. Belgium Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons) 4. Bolivia City of Potosi 5. Brazil Historic Town of Ouro Preto 6. Canada Tr’ondëk-Klondike 7. Chile Sewell Mining Town 8. Czechia Kutna Hora: Historical Town centre with Church of St Barbara and the Catedral of Our Lady at Sedlec 9. France Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 10. France From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt 11. Germany, Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System 12. Germany Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen 13. Germany and Czechia Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region 14. Indonesia Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto 15. Japan Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape 16. Japan Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining 17. Japan Sado Island Gold Mines 18. Mexico Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines 19. Mexico Historic Centre of Zacatecas 20. Norway Roros Mining Town and the Circumference 21. Poland Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 22. Poland Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System 23. Poland Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region 24. Romania Roșia Montană Mining Landscape 25. Slovakia Historical Town of Banska Stiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity 26. Spain Las Medulas Gold-mining Area
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