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==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||
===Mining=== | ===Mining=== | ||
Mining is and has been historically very important to the Stonne region. Organized mining has been known in Stonne since at least the Bronze Age and continues to this day. Small liquid magmatic deposits of nickel-magnetite gravel in norite are mined and prospected in Stone. An important mining area is the [[ | Mining is and has been historically very important to the Stonne region. Organized mining has been known in Stonne since at least the Bronze Age and continues to this day. Small liquid magmatic deposits of nickel-magnetite gravel in norite are mined and prospected in Stone. An important mining area is the [[Spelph River Valley]] and its side valleys in which many pits of coal, steel, baryte, cobalt and silver of many kinds are mined. | ||
===Forestry=== | ===Forestry=== | ||