People have always fought against the nature elements. Uncontrolable fire and water were the main enemies, which had to be tamed. Kremnica's mining field had been drained gradually by three tunnels - the heritable tunnels. The entrance of the first heritable tunnel (top heritable tunnel, town heritable tunnel) is placed uptown in J.Horvátha street, house number 887/4.

The entrance is 50 meters north from Ferdinand shaft, 564,5 meters above sea level. The working face is north facing from Leopold shaft in Kremnické Bane, 622 meters abouve sea level. The tunnel's length is 4280 meters with an average rise of 1,34% (extremely sharp). It was punched manually with chisel and ellipse shaped hammers. A water conduit is placed in the bottom part. The upper heritable tunnel undercuts Anna's shaft under the base line at 600 meters above sea level and creates the 1st scope of Anna's shaft in a depth of about 100 meters.

The entrance of the second tunnel (Deep heritable tunnel, uptown heritable tunnel) is placed north-east of the village Horná Ves next to the main road.

The tunnel mining began on October 2nd 1519, and was finished (after some interruptions) in 1613. Its entrance is 472,9 meters abouve sea level and its working face is 509 meters above sea level, 550 meters north of the Leopold shaft. The shaft length is 7050 meters; the average rise is 0,51%. Because it was mined by hand, (it took 94 years, "with few interruptions") to finish it. The deep heritable tunnel undercuts Anna shaft at about 480 meters abouve sea level and creates the 4th scope of Anna shaft in Kremnické Bane. The entrance of the youngest and longest heritable tunnel - the 3rd heritable tunnel (main heritable tunnel, heritable tunnel of emperor Ferdinand, alternately Saint-cross heritable tunnel) is placed near Žiar nad Hronom, near the river Hron 255,7 meters above sea level. The first solution design was introduced in 1821. The tunneling works began in 1841. The mining was finished (with few interruptions) in 1941. In its route some vertical mining constructions were allowed: A ventilating chimney (placed in Stará Kremnička) and the shafts No. 1 to 4. The whole tunnel (from the entrance to shaft No. 4) Was ready for mine water draining in on June 13th 1899 (length 11 kilometres).

The overall length of the main heritable tunnel in direction to Anna shaft is 15 481 meters, and also 9 481 meters of bore holes and stone drifts were unclenched on its level. The tunnel's rise is 0,09% and it reaches Anna's shaft at its bottom on 268,9 meters above sea level. The tunnel's profile is an ellipse of various parameters; shaft lining is mostly from concrete. The ceilings of unpaved sectors are secured with screw bolts. The 4th shaft is placed In the south part of the town. The steel structure of the head gear has its base line on 17,2 meters above sea level. Nowadays the only operational part is shaft No. 4 with the machine room. It is used as a transporting room to the underground electric generating station, which is placed in a depth of 245 meters. The generating station has operated since 1921, it has three impulse turbines.

In town, on Jula Horvátha street No. 890/10 the Ferdinand shaft with a machine room is placed. The shaft was drawn up into documents in 1826 and it was operating till 1932. It belonged to the Zigmuns -Juraj quarry. The Shaft's depth is 160m. The first italic steam winder was installed into this shaft In 1877, it replaced the horse setup. This shaft was coupled with the František shaft (placed in town) by a connecting drift. On the northwest side of the town, east from the Šturec slot the dominant area of shaft Ľudovik (Banská cesta 803/27) - gallows frame, can be seen.

On the place of Ľudovik´s shaft there was another shaft that was previously there before. It was mentioned in 1634 as a so called "incrush quarry". In 1892-1894 the first electric winding machine in Kremnica was built on Ľudovik shaft. Electricity was delivered from first hydroelectric power plant in Nová Dolina. In 1916-1917 the west leg of the Main heritable tunnel reached the shaft Ľudovík. The front of the gallows-frame was gradually knocked down with waste rock. Waste piles under Ľudovík shaft are connected by steel bridges, one of them traversing Banská cesta (street). The shaft bottom is connected with the fourth floor of the crashing plant. Then the ore was carried through a jaw crusher, a vibratory screen and cylindrical mills into a huge storage room underground, and further to a grinding room (placed in the area of the finishing mill) by a transporting tunnel (under Banská cesta). The present finishing mill was built in 1934, on the eastern side of Banská cesta street). The ore modification was done by amalgamating, then replaced by cyaniding, supplemented with flotation; that is why next to the old building a newer finishing mill was built The final product - the logotype of gold and silver was preceded by cementation - ore refining. This kind of refining was exclusive made by Kremnica's mint.

The last Slovak finishing mill processing gold and silver ore was closed in the year 2000. In the northwest of Slovakia some relicts of the mining work are still left. For example in Šturec's slot there are Václav's tunnel - south, Václav middle, Šturec Šľak, above the slot there is the Mikuláš shaft and the Klinger shaft.

Above Banská cesta there is the Václav's tunnel north and the town tunnel Leopold. Very precious are three stone monuments, reminding the visit of František Lotrinský, his son Palatin Jozef and Jozef II. Next to Madonna's chapel, on Banská cesta No. 45,47/810 there is the so-called "klopačka" (the mine overlords used to announce the new day by pounding a mallet on a resonant wooden board - klopačka) and a field cavity after the shaft of Madonna-helper. In Kremnické Bane, near the main road the 439,2 meters deep Anna shaft is placed. It has 10 scopes and it is the deepest shaft, connected with all the heritable draining tunnels.

Turček's water pipe was built probably between 1496-1507. This pipe retains waters of the Turec basin and transfers it through Kremnické Bane into the river Hron. For many centuries the water was used to drive mechanical processes in ore-stamping mills and smelberies. The total length of the pipe, from its spring (in Studená Dolina) to the first-degree storage tank of the power plant is 17 411 meters. Its highest elevation is 62 meters.

The whole route, up to river Hron is 34 405 meters long. And its highest elevation is 587 meters. On the Turček water pipe way there are 9 tunnels, 2 water storage tanks, a samp and a surge tank, 3 stages of water generating stations and a shaft with a depth 245 meters.