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<blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 287341" data-attributes="member: 93">Found the links, sadly they are no longer active.&nbsp; I have some pictures, but they are too big to attach, and too hard to see when reduced in size or detail.Interesting Mining Facts that I picked up while searching for mine info for an adventure:The Medieval Silver mine of Rammelsberg ran up until 1988.&nbsp; It had opened in 938, 1,050 years earlier.The biggest problem for Medieval Mining was water in the lower levels -&nbsp; by 1450 almost all the silver mines in Europe were played out for this reason, after a century of decline.&nbsp; Shortly thereafter,&nbsp; a method of pumping out the water was devised which allowed most of the big mines to reopen.Medieval miners knew of only 12 or so metals (as compared to the dozens that inhabit our periodic tables).&nbsp; I forget them all at the moment.&nbsp; Interestingly, platinum was discovered in the 16th century - not because it's difficult to locate or immensely rare (like most other unknown metals) but because the only place it was found in was the New World.A good link for this sort of thing: <a href="http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~tekpages/Subjects.html" target="_blank">Medieval Technology Pages</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kid Charlemagne, post: 287341, member: 93"] Found the links, sadly they are no longer active. I have some pictures, but they are too big to attach, and too hard to see when reduced in size or detail. Interesting Mining Facts that I picked up while searching for mine info for an adventure: The Medieval Silver mine of Rammelsberg ran up until 1988. It had opened in 938, 1,050 years earlier. The biggest problem for Medieval Mining was water in the lower levels - by 1450 almost all the silver mines in Europe were played out for this reason, after a century of decline. Shortly thereafter, a method of pumping out the water was devised which allowed most of the big mines to reopen. Medieval miners knew of only 12 or so metals (as compared to the dozens that inhabit our periodic tables). I forget them all at the moment. Interestingly, platinum was discovered in the 16th century - not because it's difficult to locate or immensely rare (like most other unknown metals) but because the only place it was found in was the New World. A good link for this sort of thing: [URL=http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~tekpages/Subjects.html]Medieval Technology Pages[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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