Introducción al estudio de la minería del hierro, en los Pirineos de Catalunya y de Andorra

• Autores: Josep Maria Mata Perelló, Octavio Puche Riart
• Localización: Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe: Revista de xeoloxía galega e do hercínico peninsular, ISSN 0213-4497, Nº 19, 1994, págs. 457-461
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Introduction to the study of the iron mining, in the catalan and the Andorran Pyrenees
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  • In the Catalan and in the Andorran Pyrenees, as in the ariegian one, there is an enormous conjunct of old mining explotations, dedicated to the extraction and to the benefit of the iron minerals. This explotations had his principal apogee during the Middle and the Moderns Ages, and contributed to the development of the process of the obtainment of iron called farga catalana. As it's known, that metallurgical process was initiality extended in Catalonia and in the Foix Country, and then it was propagated over all the known world (MATA-PERELLO and RIBA, 1993).