Agordo was known to ancient times for its mines of iron, copper and silver. In 1840, the mines provided 4000 tons of copper, 6000 of vitriol and 400 sulfur. It employed 475 workers and 275 miners. Going Agordino then there was the old mine Fursil (at Selva di Cadore) which gave an iron suitable for making fine swords. The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa became interested in the possession of the mine as early as 1177. In the centuries after the mine was contested between the Prince Bishop of Brixen, the Count of Tyrol, the Patriarch of Aquileia and the Venetian Republic. The iron Fursil was largely worked in Belluno. In the seventeenth century the forge swords Belluno produced 25,000 a year. These swords were used in part from Venice, a good amount was then sold to foreign countries. You know contracts with British merchants. The exploitation of the mine ceased in 1753 for the Fursil exhausted the mainstream.
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