Iron Ore Mines of Spešov in the Locality of Kešůvka – Experimental Mining

Karol Šmehil, Jiří Wlosok, Boris Dostál, Jiří Čuba

Archeologia technica, vol. 23 (2012)
Pages: 99–104
Language: Czech
Type of article: scientific article
DOI: n/a

Abstract:
The data about working performance in mines, with using a hand tools, is different in whole history of mining. Some data from literature are interpreted in wrong way. It comes very often to apllicating knowledges from a ore mining from a striking hereditary drifts in tough ores on a completely diferent kind of strikes. The aim of experiment in iron ore mine Spešov was acquisition important datas, suitable for a first computings. Determinating a mine performance, especially during the striking, through the experiments and computation, is leading to understanding of developments ore mining at Blansko in 18th and 19th century. Behind the great development of ironworks in second half of the 19th century was a manual work.