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During the Republican Period a number of mining districts were exploited in the territory that the Romans annexed. Mines in conquered countries that had belonged to the former rulers became the property of the Roman people, and others were acquired by confiscation or forced purchase from private owners.
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This contribution discusses the potential of UAV-assisted (unmanned aerial vehicles) photogrammetry for the study and preservation of mining heritage sites using the example of Roman gold mining infrastructure in northwestern Spain. The study area represents the largest gold area in Roman times and comprises 7 mining elements of …
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Gold Mining at Las Médulas. Gold was found in the mountains of what is today Las Médulas long before the Romans invaded the Iberian Peninsula. The deposits probably were among the reasons why Rome fought for ten years in a fierce campaign against the Celtic people of the area. These mountain ranges in Northern Spain were …
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AbstractIN this book, the author has brought together from numerous and widely scattered sources a large amount of interesting information relating to mining activity in Europe during Roman times. In it he includes observations made during his own extensive travels, carried out for the purpose of making first-hand investigation of the gold, silver, iron, …
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Roman-era mining activities increased atmospheric lead concentrations by at least a factor of 10, polluting air over Europe more heavily and for longer than previously thought, according to a new analysis of ice cores taken from glaciers on …
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That's why I was so surprised when I visited Las Médulas: all that is left of the largest gold mine in the Roman Empire.Although the modern Spanish word médula can mean "bone marrow" or "spinal cord," the name for these mining ruins probably comes from the Latin metula, the diminutive form of the word meta, which meant "cone" or …
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Las Medulas – Roman Gold Mines in Spain. But that's thinking in today's standards. At the time, their efforts to create the largest open-pit mine in the world were an engineering marvel, with the environmental consequences unknown or even considered.
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Through examples such as the World Heritage status of Las Médulas, this team pioneers this research line in Spain with a long history in interdisciplinary work and management of Cultural Landscapes in relation to the impact of Roman gold mining on pre-Roman communities in the northwestern quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Nevertheless, the use of LiDAR technology in characterizing and documenting Roman gold works in NW Iberia was first done by Fernández-Lozano and Gutiérrez-Alonso and Fernández-Lozano et al., who were able to discover and describe new sectors of Roman gold mining in the Eria river area, where part of the hydraulic …
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In the 1st century A.D. the Roman Imperial authorities began to exploit the gold deposits of this region in north-west Spain, using a technique based on hydraulic power. After two centuries of working the deposits, the Romans withdrew, leaving a devastated landscape. Since there was no subsequent industrial activity, the dramatic …
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