Editing Pyrenees (section)

== Natural resources ==
The metallic [[ore]]s of the Pyrenees are not in general of much importance now{{when|date=April 2025}}, though there were [[iron]] mines at several locations in [[Geography of Andorra#Natural resources|Andorra]], as well as at [[Vicdessos]] in Ariège, and the foot of [[Canigó]] in [[Pyrénées-Orientales]] long ago.{{when|date=April 2025}} [[Coal]] deposits capable of being profitably worked are situated chiefly on the Spanish slopes, but the French side has beds of [[lignite]].<ref name=EB1911/> The open pit of Trimoun near the commune of [[Luzenac]] (Ariège) is one of the greatest sources of [[talc]] in Europe.

[[File:Marbres des Pyrenees.jpg|thumb|left|Various samples of Pyrenean marbles]]
There are many marble quarries in the Pyrenees, most of which were opened by the Romans in ancient times. Quarried intermittently, they provided prestigious marbles such as [[Grand Antique marble|Grand Antique]] (used in Rome and Constantinople by the Romans), statuary white marbles as well as coloured marbles used to decorate the royal palaces of the Louvre and Versailles in France and the Royal Palace of Madrid in Spain.<ref>Pascal Julien, ''Marbres, de carrières en palais'' (Marbles, from quarries to palaces), ''Le Bec en l'air'' editor, 2006.</ref><ref>María Luisa Tárraga Baldó, [https://journals.openedition.org/crcv/11988?lang=en Marble in the Palace of Madrid's decoration: Origins and impacts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302102842/https://journals.openedition.org/crcv/11988?lang=en |date=2024-03-02 }}, ''Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles'' (Bulletin of the Research Centre of the Château de Versailles), 2013.</ref>

[[Mineral spring]]s are abundant and remarkable, and especially noteworthy are the [[hot spring]]s. The hot springs, among which those of [[Les Escaldes]] in Andorra, [[Panticosa]] and [[Lles de Cerdanya|Lles]] in Spain, [[Ax-les-Thermes]], [[Bagnères-de-Luchon]] and [[Eaux-Chaudes]] in France may be mentioned, are [[sulfur]]ous and mostly situated high, near the contact of the granite with the stratified rocks. The lower springs, such as those of [[Bagnères-de-Bigorre]] ([[Hautes-Pyrénées]]), [[Rennes-les-Bains]] ([[Aude]]), and [[Campagne-sur-Aude]] (Aude), are mostly selenitic and not hot.<ref name=EB1911/>