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

Josep Maria Mata i Perelló, Octavio Puche Riart

• 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).