Montceau-les-Mines
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Location within Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region
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| Coordinates: 46°40′04″N 4°22′11″E / 46.6678°N 4.3697°ECoordinates: 46°40′04″N 4°22′11″E / 46.6678°N 4.3697°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
| Department | Saône-et-Loire |
| Arrondissement | Chalon-sur-Saône |
| Canton | Montceau-les-Mines-Nord and Montceau-les-Mines-Sud |
| Intercommunality | Creusot-Montceau |
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| • Mayor (1995–2008) | Didier Mathus |
| Area1 | 16.62 km2 (6.42 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)2 | 20,033 |
| • Density | 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 71306 / 71300 |
| Elevation | 274–326 m (899–1,070 ft) (avg. 287 m or 942 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
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 a former mining city. Coal was discovered in the area in the 16th Century. A hamlet called "Le Montceau" developed from this discovery.
"Le Montceau" began to grow after the building of the Canal du Centre, built between 1783 and 1791. A business entity, "Compagnie des mines", started to extract coals in 1833.
The commune was officially established June 24, 1856. as Montceau-les-Mines, a community of 1300 inhabitants, drawn from a territory formed from the villages of Blanzy, Saint-Vallier, Saint-Berain-sous-Sanvignes, and Sanvignes-les-Mines.
A graveyard and a church were built by the principal coal company, a sign of paternalism of mining industry.
Intense social movements took place at the end of the 19th century and there at the beginning of the 20th century.
Coal made the city prosperous until 1918. During the War, the production reached 2,786,000 tons. There were about 30,000 inhabitants. After the war, the production started to decrease and stopped in 1992.
The Bourbince flows northward through the commune and crosses the town. Exceptional preservation of Late Carboniferous fossil biota characterizes a Lagerstätte at Montceau-les-Mines.
Montceau-les-Mines is twinned with:
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