Mussolini burning Etruscan slag heaps?

Discussion in 'Others' started by wowtank, Oct 29, 2011.

  1. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

    Mussolini burning Etruscan slag heaps? Is this true destroying so much archaeology for war weapons.
     
  2. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Not surprised, but aren't you missing a link to some news item?
     
  3. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

    Not surprised, but aren't you missing a link to some news item?

    ?? Not that I know of.
     
  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Googling about, presumably this is a reference to mining of Iron slag in Tuscany, as left behind by an inefficient but vast Etruscan smelting industry?

    I'm unclear (can't be alone in that...), but several sites seem to think this activity is what revealed many Etruscan tombs to archaeology, them having been buried further by rather a lot of slag.

    No idea how directly Musso was involved, though there's quite a bit out there about Politics in Italian mines...
     
  5. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

    That's interesting off to goggle for a look making sure I use the term mining slag hehe.
     
  6. ducatim901

    ducatim901 Junior Member

    That's interesting off to goggle for a look making sure I use the term mining slag hehe.

    Many former slagheaps today are being melted again, new methods are used.
    When metal prizes start to go up the more profittable it gets to melt them again.
    I heard the Greeks are doing the same thing now with the ancient goldmining heaps (do not know if these are slags).
    We even import slags from Africa to Europe to re-melt them here.
    You can find many nice cristallized minerals in it (even Silver!)
    Greetings Jack.
     
  7. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    I heard the Greeks are doing the same thing now with the ancient goldmining heaps (do not know if these are slags).
    We even import slags from Africa to Europe to re-melt them here.
    You can find many nice cristallized minerals in it (even Silver!)

    Yep, I've heard of privateers "prospecting" through slagheaps and arsenic pools in old U.S. goldmines; as well as some silver, lead is the most common valuable metal to be found there...and some mercury IIRC.


    But of course...there's the arsenic... :p It's a profitable but dangerous way of earning, for obvious reasons...
     

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