Underground Worlds: Vallauria and the Mining Heritage of Mercantour.
Silvana Editoriale| N° d'inventaire | 26296 |
| Format | 22 x 22 |
| Détails | 96 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Milan, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836652136 |
To extract a few precious kilos of copper ore or thousands of tons of silver-bearing galena, men have explored the depths of the Mercantour Mountains throughout the ages. First armed with stone tools in the Neolithic period (4th millennium BC), using fire extensively in the Middle Ages, they would employ explosives in the modern era.
This catalog traces the history of these techniques and these men, through the mines of Roua, in the Barrot dome, and that of Vallauria, in Haute-Roya. While the former can boast of being the oldest Neolithic copper mines in Europe, the latter was among the most important deposits of zinc, lead and silver in the Southern Alps exploited in the medieval, modern and contemporary periods.
To extract a few precious kilos of copper ore or thousands of tons of silver-bearing galena, men have explored the depths of the Mercantour Mountains throughout the ages. First armed with stone tools in the Neolithic period (4th millennium BC), using fire extensively in the Middle Ages, they would employ explosives in the modern era.
This catalog traces the history of these techniques and these men, through the mines of Roua, in the Barrot dome, and that of Vallauria, in Haute-Roya. While the former can boast of being the oldest Neolithic copper mines in Europe, the latter was among the most important deposits of zinc, lead and silver in the Southern Alps exploited in the medieval, modern and contemporary periods.