铜陵古代铜矿采冶及其特点述略

A Brief Account of the Ancient Tongling Copper Mining and Smelting

古代铜陵地区铜矿采冶规模宏大,历史悠久,从商周到唐宋一直是采铜冶铜的中心。南宋以后,由于受到浅地层矿床开采殆尽、胆水浸铜法兴起、两宋之际社会动荡以及纸币大兴等因素的影响,铜陵大规模的铜矿采冶基本停止。铜陵的铜矿采冶业经历了长时期的发展,大规模地工业采冶长盛不衰,曾经多次在较长时间内创造过辉煌的业绩,铜陵古代铜矿采冶遗址具有点多面广,从开采冶炼规模到时间跨度都为国内所罕见等特点。

The ancient Tongling area had a long history and a large scale in copper mining and smelting .It has been the center of copper mining and smelting from the Shang and Zhou Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasty .After the Southern Song Dy-nasty ,Tong ling＇s large-scale copper mining ceased ,for the factors of shallow layer deposits had been mined over ,the rise of water bile copper leaching method ,two Song Dynasties social unrest ,plus the rise of paper money .Tongling＇s copper mining and smelting industry has experienced a long period of development ,large-scale industrial mining and smelting prosperous ,and had created brilliant performances for many times in the long history .The ruins of the ancient Tongling copper mine have Char-acteristics of wide distribution ,large mining and smelting scale plus a rare domestic time span of rare etc .