我国锑鑛的发现我国第一个被发现的锑鑛,也就是今日世界最大的产锑中心,是在湖南新化县东北约七十里的錫鑛山。该地本名陶塘,相傅在明朝末年,已经有人发现鑛苗,但误认为錫而照了提锡的方法去冶煉,没有获得结果,所以就被棄置了。但锡鑛山的名字,却已響遍遐迩,至今还是相依成習,沿用着而不易更改。漫长的岁月。锡鑛山静待了将近三百年,到前清光绪十五年,有新化宴詠鹿与劉履齐二位先生,下乡经过陶塘,在路旁无意地拾了一块鑛石,后寄给旅鄂的朋友邹元藩先生,经外人化验,说含‘安替莫尼’(Antimony),但又不知‘定替莫尼’的意思,转转询问,乃知是一种元素,就是现在所谓的‘锑’。当其时,国外已知锑在兵工与印刷上的用途,因此锡鑛山聲名重振,不再被冷视。 China’s discovery of antimony mine China’s first discovered antimony mine, which is today the world’s largest production center of antimony, Xinhua County, Hunan Province, about 70 miles northeast of the tin mine. The real name Tao Tang, phase Fu in the Ming Dynasty last year, some people have found mineral seedlings, but mistaken for tin and according to the method of tin to smelting, did not get the result, it was abandoned. However, the name of the tin mine, but it has been heard all the time, so far still dependent on the study, along with easy to change. Long years. Tin mines wait for nearly three hundred years, to the Qing Emperor Guangxu fifteen years, a new feast Yong Lu Lu and Liu Lvqi two gentlemen, go to the countryside after Tao Tong, inadvertently picked up a roadside ore, Post Mr. Zou Yuanfan, a friend of Lhub, who has been tested by foreigners and said to contain “Antimony,” but he does not know the meaning of “fixing Moyni,” and turning to ask, he knows that it is an element of what is now called Antimony ’. At the time, the use of antimony in ordnance and printing was known abroad. Therefore, the reputation of tin mines revived and was no longer neglected.