Tratados de minería y estudios geológicos de la época colonial 1616-1803
By: recopilación, transcripción y notas de Guillermo Hernández de Alba, Armando Espinosa Baquero.
Contributors: Hernández de Alba, Guillermo.; Espinosa Baquero, Armando.
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Colección Enrique Pérez-Arbeláez ;; no. 4
Publisher: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Bogotá
Language: spa
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Transcriptions and commentary of works by Luis Sánchez de Aconcha, Angel Díaz, José Celestino Mutis, and Juan José D'Elhuyar.; Mines and mineral resources -- Colombia -- Early works to 1800.; Geology -- Colombia -- Early works to 1800.; Mines and mineral resources -- Colombia -- History -- Sources.; Manuscripts, Spanish -- Colombia.
Description: "Transcriptions, accompanied by short introductions, of mining and mineralogical treatises from Luis Sánchez de Aconcha (1616), Angel Díaz (1803), and Juan José D'Elhuyar (1786). Collection focuses on late-18th-century mining reform with Díaz's study of the Supía silver mines in Popayán and Elhuyar's description of the emerald mines of Muzo"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographcal references (p. 91).