Montceau-les-Mines explained

Montceau-les-Mines
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason Montceau-les-Mines.svg
Arrondissement:Autun
Canton:Montceau-les-Mines
Insee:71306
Postal Code:71300
Mayor:Marie-Claude Jarrot[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:CU Creusot Montceau
Coordinates:46.6678°N 4.3697°W
Elevation M:287
Elevation Min M:274
Elevation Max M:326
Area Km2:16.62

Montceau-les-Mines (in French pronounced as /mɔ̃so le min/) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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

History

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 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. Economic hardship followed the closing of the mines. By 2017, the population had fallen to about 18,000, unemployment was 21% and many shops of the city had closed.[2]

Geography/geology

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.[3] [4] [5] [6] It has often been interpreted as a freshwater environment,[7] but some fossils, such as an amphinomidan annelid, [8] and 142 specimens of the xiphosuran Alanops magnificus[9] suggest some marine influence.[10] [11] [12]

See also

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France.

Montceau-les-Mines is twinned with:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
  2. News: Chef Gives Up a Star, Reflecting Hardship of 'the Other France'.. Nossiter. Adam. December 27, 2017. The New York Times. December 27, 2017.
  3. Racheboeuf . Patrick R. . etal . 2009 . New malacostracan custacea from the Carboniferous (Stephanian) lagerst?tte of Montceau-les-Mines, France . Journal of Paleontology . 83 . 4. 624–629 . 10.1666/08-171r.1. 130784496 .
  4. Perrier . Vincent . Charbonnier . Sylvain . The Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte (Late Carboniferous, France) . Comptes Rendus Palevol . 1 July 2014 . 13 . 5 . 353–367 . 10.1016/j.crpv.2014.03.002 . 1631-0683.
  5. Anatomically modern Carboniferous harvestmen demonstrate early cladogenesis and stasis in Opiliones. Russell J.. Garwood. Jason A.. Dunlop. Gonzalo. Giribet. Mark D.. Sutton. 2011. Nature Communications. 2. 444. 10.1038/ncomms1458. 21863011. free.
  6. A Paleozoic Stem Group to Mite Harvestmen Revealed through Integration of Phylogenetics and Development. Russell J.. Garwood. Prashant P.. Sharma. Jason A.. Dunlop. Gonzalo. Giribet. 2014. Current Biology. 24. 9. 1017–1023. 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.039. 24726154. free.
  7. Perrier . Vincent . Charbonnier . Sylvain . The Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte (Late Carboniferous, France) . Comptes Rendus Palevol . 1 July 2014 . 13 . 5 . 353–367 . 10.1016/j.crpv.2014.03.002 . 1631-0683.
  8. Pleijel . Fredrik . Rouse . Greg W. . Vannier . Jean . Carboniferous fireworms (Amphinomida : Annelida), with a discussion of species taxa in palaeontology . Invertebrate Systematics . 2004 . 18 . 6 . 693 . 10.1071/IS04003.
  9. Racheboeuf . Patrick R. . Vannier . Jean . Anderson . Lyall I. . A New Three‐Dimensionally Preserved Xiphosuran Chelicerate from the Montceau‐Les‐Mines Lagerstätte (Carboniferous, France) . Palaeontology . January 2002 . 45 . 1 . 125–147 . 10.1111/1475-4983.00230 . en . 0031-0239. free .
  10. Schultze . Hans-Peter . Interpretation of marine and freshwater paleoenvironments in Permo–Carboniferous deposits . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . October 2009 . 281 . 1–2 . 126–136 . 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.07.017.
  11. Laurin . M. . Soler-Gijón . R. . Osmotic tolerance and habitat of early stegocephalians: indirect evidence from parsimony, taphonomy, palaeobiogeography, physiology and morphology . Geological Society, London, Special Publications . January 2010 . 339 . 1 . 151–179 . 10.1144/SP339.13.
  12. Schultze . Hans-Peter . The paleoenvironment at the transition from piscine to tetrapod sarcopterygians . New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin . 2013 . 60 . 373–397 .

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