Haute-Saône
Haute-Saône (; Frainc-Comtou: ''Hâte-Saône''; English: Upper Saône) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône, it had a population of 235,313 in 2019.
region
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of
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...
in eastern
France
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.
Coal mines
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were operated in the village between 1828 and 1916.Pierre Semonin, ''Le gîte houiller de Villafans'', 1993
XIXe - Puits n° 4 Gouhenans.jpg, Mine shaft 4.
Puits n° 13 Gouhenans 04 - Crop.jpg, Mine shaft 13.
Fonçage - Puits n° 17 Gouhenans.JPG, Mine shaft 17.
Salt mines
Salt mining extracts natural salt deposits from underground. The mined salt is usually in the form of halite (commonly known as rock salt), and extracted from evaporite formations.
History
Before the advent of the modern internal combust ...
were operating in the village between 1831 and 1945. A chemical factory (1844-1955) and a
glass factory
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