MINE SIELE SORTING MINERAL

HISTORICAL PHOTO 1906
They worked 12 hours a day and the daily wage was:
women and children: 0.60 pounds
men: 1.40 pounds / 1.90
In Amiatine mines in the first years of activity, he proceeded to the sorting and enrichment of mineraDSC14.JPGle before sending it to the roasting furnaces.
This operation was carried out in "laverie" and was predominantly performed by women and children under fifteen years of age.
Typical example of this work is the "washery Cornacchino".
In 1889 in this dressing plant they were employed 50 women and children and a dozen men.