Los repertorios lexicográficos españoles sobre minería

Abstract

Mining industry has been established as a traditional activity. This is the reason why a specific vocabulary in this field has been used from early times. Hispania mines were operated by successive settlers and subsequently, Spaniards weree the ones in charge of working in the mines of America’s conquered territories. The benefits from minerals were made profitable by means of scientific and technical advances that were outstanding during the 19th century. At that moment, Spanish exploitations were revived and became important at a national level.

In this framework, we try to present and study the lexicographical interest which mining technical vocabulary aroused above all among those specialists who compiled numerous collections. It is worth mentioning that, unlike other scientific disciplines, they were hardly published as independent works. They were rather appendices from studies or treatises about the topic. Others, on the contrary, never came to light and nowadays remain unpublished.