27th October

[Auditório Dr. António Macedo]

09:00 – Check in

09:30 – Opening session

    José Manuel Ribeiro - José Manuel Ribeiro - Mayor of Valongo

    Vítor Gandra – President of Alto Relevo – Clube de Montanhismo

10:00 – Back to Basics - What is Roman Mining?

    João Moutinho – Coordinator of the Environment and Heritage Protection Section of  ALTO RELEVO – Clube de Montanhismo

10h20 – Parque das Serras do Porto - the most diverse in methods of Mining of Roman gold

    Alexandre Lima – Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto

10h40 – Coffee break

11h00 - Build the mining past by a strong control of the contexts chronology, the geology and the stratigraphy in ancient gold mines of Gaul and Dacia

    Beatrice Cauuet – TRACES Laboratory - Maison de la Recherche, Toulouse 2 - Jean-Jaurès University – France

11h30 – Dolaucothi Goldmines, Industrial Heritage in a Rural Setting –  managing a visitor business alongside an archaeological landscape

    Claudine Gerrard – National Trust Archaeologist

12h00 – Presentation on Dolaucothi Gold Mines

    Donna Sharp – Operations manager for the National Trust at Dolaucothi Gold Mines, Carmarthenshire, Wales12h30 –

Characterization of an Exotic Cave Specie

    Alto Relevo – Clube de Montanhismo

12h40 - Lunch

    Lunch at the Municipality Canteen 

14h15 – Morning brief and afternoon start

14h30 – Roman gold mining in the Medulas-Teleno sector (León-Spain): the world's largest group of secundary Roman gold mining

    Roberto Matias – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Escuela de Minas y Energía 

15h00 – Geology Applied to Mining Archaeology - Rosia Montana Case Study

    Calin Gabriel TAMAS – 1) University Babes-Bolyai, Department of Geology; 2) TRACES Laboratory - Maison de la Recherche, Toulouse,  Jean-Jaurès University, France

15h30– Complex Fojo das Pombas / Galeria G1 - a reference structure of the Roman Mining Complex of Valongo - updating the speleological works

    Vítor Gandra – Coordinator of the Speleology Section of ALTO RELEVO – Clube de Montanhismo

16h15 - Roundtable - The Potential for Territorial Valuation of the Roman Mining Heritage

    Moderator: José Rio Fernandes

    José Manuel Ribeiro – President of the Executive Council of the Parque das Serras do Porto

    Teresa Andresen - Management Plan of the Parque das Serras do Porto

    Donna Sharp – Operations manager for the National Trust at Dolaucothi Gold Mines, Carmarthenshire, Wales

    José Mendes - CEO IDTOUR - University of Aveiro

16h45 – Closing the first day's sessions

   Transfer to the municipal museum on foot (5 minutes)

 

[Municipal Museum of Valongo]

17h00 - Inauguration of the Exhibition on Roman Mining

17:30 - Visit to the Exhibition with support and technical support.

18h30 - End of day 1.