Ihász István - Pintér János szerk.: Történeti Muzeológiai Szemle: A Magyar Múzeumi Történész Társulat Évkönyve 8. (Budapest, 2008)
II. Közlemények - Módszertan - Műhely - Papp Andrea: A nemzetiségek szerepe a rudabányai nagyüzemi vasércbányászat első időszakában (1880-1918)
The creation and development of the mine had a remarkable effect upon the local economic, social and infrastructural conditions as well as upon cultural life. It is thanks to the mine that the settlement's population rose due of the arrival in Rudabánya of mining families. Naturally for this to happen other favourable factors had to come together related to the character of mining: after all, when the supply of raw material begins to dry up miners are compelled to move on or find other spheres of work. The mining company often resorted to the tools or recruitment in the interests of guaranteeing the necessary workforce. Thus, miners arrived from practically the entire territories of the Monarchy as well as from the more industrialised districts of the neighbouring countries (Czechs, Croatians, Poles, Austrians, Germans, Romanians, Serbians, Slovaks, Italians etc.), who applied themselves to the work with the necessary skills, meanwhile teaching mining skills the indigenous or newly-arrived unskilled workforce. Of special significance was the role of the mining engineer settlers from Dobsina (today Dobsina, Slovakia), who had wandered away to other mining settlements, among them Rudabánya, due to the speedy decline of mining there at the end of the 19 th century. It was a matter of common knowledge that all of these lived as buléners, that is, miners speaking a German dialect, but it is clear that besides them other nationalities also played a role in Rudabánya mining, something that is borne out by research. Both the management and the personnel of the mine played a leading role in the creation of the social, cultural and community life of the settlement. Research cannot be said to have been concluded, for many questions have remained unanswered or have arisen, but results so far confirm that the ethnic minorities played a significant part in initiating and developing large-scale iron-ore mining at Rudabánya.
