Antique Tonglüshan copper mine
The ancient copper mine Tonglüshan ( Chinese 铜绿山古铜矿 , Pinyin Tónglǜshān gǔ tóngkuàng , English Ancient Tonglüshan Copper Mine ) was a complex of various copper - mines and - smelting places from the time of Western Zhou dynasty to Western Han Dynasty in the field from Daye , an independent city in the independent city of Huangshi in the Chinese province of Hubei . You will be on the time of the 9th to. 1st century BC And were excavated between 1974 and 1985.
The ancient copper mine was discovered while mining copper ore in the Tonglüshan open-cast mine. Ancient mining took place at twelve different copper deposits. In total, several hundred shafts and tunnels , tools for mining and several smelting furnaces for smelting the ore were discovered. On the basis of the remaining slag , the amount of copper ore mined was estimated at around 80,000 to 100,000 tons. Due to the fragility of the rock, the ore could also be mined with primitive tools, but complex extensions of the tunnels with wooden shoring were necessary to secure them .
The site of the ancient Tonglüshan copper mine (Tonglüshan gu tongkuang yizhi 铜绿 山 古 铜矿 遗址) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (2-51) since 1982 .
See also
literature
- Hans Ulrich Vogel : Mining archaeological research in the PRCh - From Chengde to Tonglüshan - A research report . In: The cut . tape 34.4 , 1982, pp. 138-153 .
- Hans Ulrich Vogel: Mining in China . In: Arne Eggebrecht (Hrsg.): China, a cradle of world culture: 5000 years of inventions and discoveries . von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1994, ISBN 3-8053-1683-6 , p. 118 ff .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Museum of the Former Site of Ancient Tonglüshan Copper Mine. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved January 18, 2010 (Chinaculture.org, Chinese Ministry of Culture). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Donald B. Wagner: Peter Golas, Science and Civilization in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part XIII: Mining. Cambridge University Press, 538 pp., Cambridge 1999. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 5, 2010 ; Retrieved January 18, 2010 (Book Review. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 30 ° 4 ′ 12 ″ N , 114 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E