The Monteponi Historical Mining Archive was inaugurated on December 4, 2012 on the occasion of the St. Barbara festivity. The Archive is currently housed in the buildings of the former central warehouses of the Monteponi Company which housed calcination furnaces, treatment plants, prisoner cells, warehouses. In the archive, since 1994 declared of considerable historical interest by the Archival Superintendency for Sardinia, the documentation kept occupies about 5.800 linear meters for a total of over 50,000 folders and is represented by the archival funds of the most important national and foreign mining companies. The documents kept are made up of tens of thousands of drawings, maps and mining plans, geological maps, plant projects, drawings of machinery and equipment, civil buildings, drawings of roads, ports, and social activities, registration books, personal folders, administrative and commercial documentation. There are also thousands of historical photographs of places and mining events, often the result of donations by private individuals. There are also thousands of books and publications on mining issues as well as an important newspaper library of over 20,000 technical and scientific journals from all over the world.
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