The current research deals with the importance of mineral resources to the success and failure of the spanish colonization at the ancient Guairá. The Guairá, currently Paraná state, was a former spanish province that belonged to the colonial Paraguay. The spanish villas and Jesuitical Reductions were destroyed by the paulistas, in 1629-32. The search for metal ore was important at the Guairá’s settlement, just as in other regions of the Spanish America. The metals were virtually absent, and the spaniards had explored Yerba mate (Ilex paraguaiensis) as economical resource. The main mineral resources at that time were amethyst and iron. The jesuits also reported the existence of salt deposits in Guairá. The amethyst ore provoked a rebellion i...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceStrip mining such as this at the Ferteco iron ore mine near Congon...
Through an archaeological research of intensive prospection, archaeological evidence of ancient mini...
En este trabajo se presenta el estudio de la minería y metalurgia del III milenio cal ANE en el vall...
A presente pesquisa trata da importância dos recursos minerais no sucesso e no fracasso da colonizaç...
The discovery of the industrial method of amalgamation for poor silver minerals in Pachuca (New Spai...
International audienceRecent fieldwork in the mining region of Oruro confirm the existence of numero...
En este trabajo analizamos el funcionamiento de la instalación minero-metalúrgica Fundiciones 1, ubi...
In this paper the existence of intense mining activity around the town of Moralzarzal (Madrid) durin...
Gold extraction was the most significative aspect in the economy of the Nuevo Reino de Granada. None...
In 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the sin...
At the end of the XVI century, the Spanish empire had the necessity to create a series of strategies...
A principios de 1840 se abrió una nueva etapa en la historia del Valle de Camargo con el descubrimie...
The cities of Potosí (Bolivia) and Ouro Preto (Brazil) have played central economic roles during Lat...
Esta pesquisa trata da produção do espaço geográfico pela indústria mineral de ferro através do proc...
Current archaeological studies of the origins of metal working and its technology involves many diff...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceStrip mining such as this at the Ferteco iron ore mine near Congon...
Through an archaeological research of intensive prospection, archaeological evidence of ancient mini...
En este trabajo se presenta el estudio de la minería y metalurgia del III milenio cal ANE en el vall...
A presente pesquisa trata da importância dos recursos minerais no sucesso e no fracasso da colonizaç...
The discovery of the industrial method of amalgamation for poor silver minerals in Pachuca (New Spai...
International audienceRecent fieldwork in the mining region of Oruro confirm the existence of numero...
En este trabajo analizamos el funcionamiento de la instalación minero-metalúrgica Fundiciones 1, ubi...
In this paper the existence of intense mining activity around the town of Moralzarzal (Madrid) durin...
Gold extraction was the most significative aspect in the economy of the Nuevo Reino de Granada. None...
In 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the sin...
At the end of the XVI century, the Spanish empire had the necessity to create a series of strategies...
A principios de 1840 se abrió una nueva etapa en la historia del Valle de Camargo con el descubrimie...
The cities of Potosí (Bolivia) and Ouro Preto (Brazil) have played central economic roles during Lat...
Esta pesquisa trata da produção do espaço geográfico pela indústria mineral de ferro através do proc...
Current archaeological studies of the origins of metal working and its technology involves many diff...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceStrip mining such as this at the Ferteco iron ore mine near Congon...
Through an archaeological research of intensive prospection, archaeological evidence of ancient mini...
En este trabajo se presenta el estudio de la minería y metalurgia del III milenio cal ANE en el vall...