Romans Used Pressurized Water to Extract Gold

Romans Used Pressurized Water to Extract Gold

Image of the excavated dam in 2010–2012 with some of the large stone blocks. Credit: Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez / Open Access A new study suggests that the Romans used pressurized water to extract gold in the eastern Pyrenees, giving researchers the first direct evidence of Roman mining in that part of the range. The finding comes from Les Guilleteres d’All in Cerdanya, where archaeologists dated sediment from a buried water reservoir tied to the mi…

Roman-era gold mines in the Eastern Pyrenees

A study has succeeded in demonstrating the existence of Roman-era alluvial gold mines in the Eastern Pyrenees. The post Roman-era gold mines in the Eastern Pyrenees appeared first on Archaeology Wiki.