FRANZ SCHMITZ AND HIS FIRE OVEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF SILVER IN ANGANGUEO, MÉXICO

Abstract

Between the late eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century was experienced in Latin American mining and metallurgical models, different proposals to streamline the chemical -mechanical beneficiation processes and make their businesses profitable. This phenomenon is part of the shock wave of European Industrial Revolution, which accelerated the mobility of experts in the arts of science and circulation of technical -scientific knowledge. But both human experience and the knowledge that came from outside, had to acclimate to the new realities, in a lengthy process of negotiation with local actors and knowledge.