黄石,因矿闻名。早在殷商时期,黄石铜绿山已开矿炼铜,至今3000余年炉火生生不息,发掘出大量古矿冶遗址;19世纪80年代,张之洞在黄石创办大冶铁矿和大冶铁厂,是汉冶萍公司的重要组成部分。汉冶萍公司是当时亚洲最大的钢铁联合企业,堪称“中国钢铁工业的摇篮”。现完整保留的冶铁高炉始建于1921年,当年系“亚洲第一高炉”; Yellowstone, famous for its mines. As early as during Shang dynasty, Huangshi Tonglushan had been mined for copper smelting. Since then, there has been more than 3,000 years of fire and mortar excavation, and a large number of ancient mines and ruins have been excavated. In the 1880s, Zhang Zhidong founded Daye Iron Mine and Daye Iron Factory, Han Ye Ping is an important part of the company. Han Yee Ping company was Asia’s largest iron and steel conglomerate, called “the cradle of China’s iron and steel industry.” The fully preserved iron blast furnace was founded in 1921, when the Department of “Asia’s first blast furnace”;