Les Mines

Coordinates: 46°40′04″N 4°22′11″E  /  46.6677777778°N 4.36972222222°E  / 46.6677777778; 4.36972222222

Montceau-les-Mines is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.

It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan Communauté urbaine Creusot-Montceau, which lies southwest of the city of Dijon.

Montceau-les-mines is an ancient mining city. Some coal was discovered in the XVIth Century. The hamlet called "Le Montceau" developed from this discovery.

"Le Montceau" definitively became a city after the building of the channel of the centre in 1791 and after a company called "compagnie des mines" started to extract coals. A graveyard and a church was built by the company, a sign of paternalism of mining industry.

The coal made the city presperous until 1918. During the War, the production reached 2786000 tons. There were about 30 000 inhabitants. After the war, the production started to decrease and stopped in 1992.

Geography

The Bourbince flows northward through the commune and crosses the town.

See also

• Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department

References

• INSEE

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