Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany. It is a Große Kreisstadt and the administrative centre of Mittelsachsen district.
Freiberg with Peter's Church in December 2007
Panorama from Freiberg looking from southwest to north
The slag heap of "Hohe Esse" with the Feinhütte Halsbrücke in the foreground
Obermarkt (Upper Market) with Town hall
A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community that houses miners. Mining communities are usually created around a mine or a quarry.
Partizánska Ľupča in Slovakia. Now a village with 1300 inhabitants but in 14th-19th centuries an important mining town with more than 4000. Several houses still have an urban character.
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, in 1957.