SARDINIAN MINERS ON THEIR WAY TO WORK 



Fifteen thousand natives find employment in the mines of the island. The center of 

 this industry is in the southwestern corner, in the vicinity of Iglesias. Lead and zinc are 

 the principal minerals, but silver, iron, antimony, coal, and copper are also produced. During 

 the Spanish occupation of the island the mines of Sardinia were abandoned, for the soldiers 

 of Aragon and Castile had discovered the fabulous wealth of the Montezumas and the Incas 

 in the New World. 



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