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Bois-Vert
Bois-Vert, former open-pit tin mine at Abbaretz, Loire-Atlantique, France, worked 1952-1957 by the SNMO (3,750 t cassiterite) on a Gallo-Roman mining site; now a leisure area with acid drainage issues.
Carnoulès
Carnoulès is an abandoned argentiferous lead mine in Saint-Sébastien-d'Aigrefeuille, Gard, France, closed since 1962, known for arsenic-rich acid mine drainage and long-term microbiological research.
Chocolate Factory
Chocolate Factory: an industrial facility making chocolate products, also the name of factory-tour attractions such as Hershey's Chocolate World and Cadbury World, a Jiaxing theme park, and Willy Wonka's fictional factory.
Great Barn
Great Barn: name shared by several notable English historic barns, including Grade I listed examples at Avebury (late 17th century), Harmondsworth (1425-7, Winchester College), Gawthorpe Hall (1605), Headstone Manor, and Great Coxwell (13th century).
Lime kilns
Lime kilns, also called limekilns, are furnaces that calcine limestone or chalk above 900°C into quicklime for mortar, agriculture, and steelmaking; used since Roman Britain, with surviving scheduled examples at Lindisfarne and Bellmanpark.
Palm grove
Palm grove: a cultivated stand of date palms forming the framework of oasis agriculture in North Africa and the Middle East, with three-layer inter-cropping, aflaj irrigation, and heritage sites like Al-Ahsa and Elche.