Mining is a reference in the local culture. In the village there are old farms that nobody knows when they worked, toponyms, documents that speak of these works since the sixteenth century and remains from prehistoric times.
What the elders do know is the activity in the mines of Ibor and the hustle and bustle of the Herrería de Viejas, the last great mining factory of the Villuercas Ibores Jara. Many Oaksmen made their living underground in the 1950s and 1960s.