Estudio preliminar de las galerías y oquedades existentes en los frentes de explotación de la mina de oro del Hoyo de la Campana (Granada)
- García Pulido, Luis José
- González Ramón, Antonio
- Sánchez Díaz, Tomás J.
- Segura Herrero, Andrés
- Gea López, Diego Raúl
- García Salazar, Antonio
- Pérez Martínez, Pedro
- García Pulido, Luis José (ed. lit.)
- Arboledas Martínez, Luis (ed. lit.)
- Alarcón García, Eva (ed. lit.)
- Contreras Cortés, Francisco (ed. lit.)
Publisher: Editorial Universidad de Granada ; Universidad de Granada
ISBN: 9788433861573
Year of publication: 2017
Pages: 141-152
Congress: Congreso Internacional sobre Minería y Metalurgia Históricas en el Sudoeste Europeo (8. 2014. Granada)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The landscape that features the gold mine of the Hoyo de la Campana is the result of huge erosive processes developed during decades of mining works in Antiquity. Furthermore, it has also been a place in which small scale mining attempts could have been done in the Middle Ages and in Modern Age. During the Nasrid kingdom of Granada (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) the mining channel that supplied water to the gold mine was reused to irrigate the royal properties located in the surroundings of the Alhambra. That shows the abandon of the mining with hydraulic works. In the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth century, there were carried out industrial works without success. As a consequence of these processes, this site presents a great concentration of remains of wells and galleries. After the exploration of the most difficult access hollows in the Hoyo de la Campana, a preliminary analysis has been carried out.