 The area of interest is in central south Sicily, it's characterized by the most complete sequences of Messinian evaporites outcrops, locally known as gestososulfifera formation marked by rock salt, sulfur, bitumen and metal horse. The Platani river valley west, placed west of Agrigento, shows a peculiar geomorphological features, salt, sulfur, bitumen, whose use has been documented since prehistory. In these pictures you can say the Platani river with salt encrastation and salt that accumulated around the water spring. In the Platani valley the salt is everywhere accumulated in huge, very huge heaps. In these pictures the salt accumulated on the edges of a stream tributary of the Platani river. In these pictures the salt, the heap of salt, but is very usually in the valley of the Platani. Long lasting segments are attested, but we can't find archaeological evidences because the salt was collected very easily on the surface without resorting to mine extraction. We have many historical sources that quote the salt of Agrigento, for example Plinus del Solinus agostino, especially for the very large quantities for the purity that made it immediately edible. We can't find archaeological remains such as boiling salt pots or tools for mining because there was no need because the salt was collected on the surface very easily. Until the last century the local inhabitants collected the salt for normal uses. The concentration of long lasting settlements is attested also near the Sulphur mines from Heraclea Minoa where the Platani flows into the Mediterranean, and two inland, where are very important sites, Assacias Montesara, Sant'Angelo Muxaro, Monteroveto, Acastel Termini, Monterafe, Milena. The area surrounding Agrigento was one of the richest areas in Sulphur. It was very important in several fields, cultural and medical use. We find archaeological evidence about extraction and processing of Sulphur in the site of Montegrande at Palma di Montechiaro where is melted Sulphur from Erribron's age layer associated with local painted and Aegean sheds. A fragment of melted Sulphur come from Monteroveto at Acastel Termini. In the Platani valley there are also a lot of sources of bitumen. The most important are in the Bonura district in the Valle dell'olio and at Bivona where the Madonna dell'olio is venerated and these pictures are bitumen on the surface. We have a lot of literary sources on the bitumen of Agrigento territory that not undescribe the importance of the oil of Agrigento and the properties and the uses of the bitumen. These are the local raw materials that can possibly explain the Aegean presences along the Agrigento coast from Palma di Montechiaro, Montegrande to Cannatello until the Platani river and the Platani valley with the important site such as Aragona and Cannatello. You can see that Miss Maisiniano and Cipriotto Vessel from Aragona Caldare and two sheet bronze bowls from Sant'Angelo Muxaro and from Milena Montecampanella one of the important influences of the Aegean of the Montegrande are in the architecture funerary architecture and you can see some examples of Tolo's tomb from Sant'Angelo Muxaro with a vast rock at Tolo's tomb from Anguilla, Ribera and Casteltermini. Worthy or not are the metal resources especially iron ore such as pyrite, imatite, magnetite. They seem to be concentrated in the middle Platani valley between Sant'Angelo Muxaro and Monte Roveto at Casteltermini that a new geological map has evidences. Monte Roveto is the most important site in the middle Platani valley where there are evidences of metal working with finished objects such as slugs and ingots. You can see ice, wood and iron bloom on the surface that we can find everywhere in a very vast area. Bronze ingots ice, wood and smelting slugs but an important element is the presence of sources of metal or the huge amount of iron bloom suggests the presence of iron working in this picture iron spongy bloom with voids and bubbles in this picture wrought iron bloom in bronze and iron hoard there are bronze and iron items in bronze two spears that date from 2010 a lot of beads fragment of grate two punches melted in one piece two little horses and three kilos of bronze ingots and ice, wood in iron two knives two holes and one axe the presence in the hoard of iron ore iron bloom suggests that they have been stored intentionally recent archaeological investigation on Monteroveto have certainly shed new light about iron technology in Sicily primarily for the local metal sources the huge presence of iron gave the name to the site that locally is called Monteferro the planet archeometric analysis can help to understand many aspects about the local metal working and about the problem of the beginnings of iron smelting not only salt and bitumen in the valley of the Platani but also as is evidenced at Monteroveto in the middle Platani valley also the processing of iron of local iron thank you