Editing Lens mining company

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The '''Lens Mining Company''' (French: ''Compagnie des mines de Lens'') was the company responsible for the extraction of coal in the {{Wiki|Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin}} of Northern [[France]]. It was established in 1852 and operated in the city of [[Lens]] until it was nationalized in 1946,<ref>{{WP|fr:Compagnie des mines de Lens}}</ref> with its main building being later transformed into the [[Faculty of Sciences]] of the {{Wiki|University of Artois}}. Besides mining, the company also operated with construction, building not only the housing estates for its employees, but also many amenities in the city such as a school, a clinic and a {{Wiki|fr:Église Saint-Théodore de Lens|church}}.<ref name="Mines">''[[Le Secret des Mines]]''</ref>

At some point, the company closed operations at the many mines, including [[Lens mining site number 9]], transferring the workers into the construction of the [[Stade Bollaert-Delelis|Bollaert-Delelis stadium]] with assistance from [[Abstergo Industries]], who used such operations as a cover for their investigations on a lost [[Templars|Templar]] treasure in the region. Unbeknownst to both companies, miner [[Henri Mulio]] had already located and hidden the treasure by then,<ref name="Mines"/> which would only be recovered by his great-grandson<ref name="FrBlog">{{Cite web |url=https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Blog_utilisateur:Archiviste_d%27Apocrypha/Entretien_:_le_secret_bien_gard%C3%A9_d%27Hootside| title=Entretien : le secret bien gardé d'Hootside| author=[[User:Archiviste d'Apocrypha|Archiviste d'Apocrypha]]| publisher=Assassin's Creed Wiki (Fr)| date=06 May 2023| accessdate=03 May 2024| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515090455/https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Blog_utilisateur:Archiviste_d'Apocrypha/Entretien_:_le_secret_bien_gard%C3%A9_d'Hootside| archivedate=15 May 2023}}</ref> [[Simon Mulio]] in the 2020s.<ref name="Mines"/>

==Appearances==
*''[[Le Secret des Mines]]''

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