EditorialA miner's pick-axe and shovel made of maple wood, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialFacilities of the iron mine and the salt mines of Pontarlier, Plans for facilities of the ironworks and the salt mine of Pontarlier, engraving, 1789, Johann Jacob Ferber: Mineralogische und metallurgische Bemerkungen in Neuchatel, Franche Comt? und Bou...
EditorialA miner's wooden pouch and fur cap from the pre-historic salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialInterior of a rock salt mine at Northwich, Cheshire. Miners preparing to haul salt up to the surface. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.
EditorialInterior of a rock salt mine at Northwich, Cheshire. Miners preparing to haul salt up to the surface. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.
EditorialA miner's wooden pouch and fur cap from the pre-historic salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.