The article is based on a research on the territorial dimensión of industrial heritage and raisest he definition of aconceptual and methodological frameworkas the basis for the identification, classification and operational researchof derelict industrial landscapes of mining, a result of symbiotic and heterogeneous cultural and natural elements.It also analyzes the environmental, social, economic and aesthetic problems derived from these obsolete mininglandscapes which hold not exceptionally valuable objects from the point of view of isolated buildings, but making upensembles of interest.These methodological parameters are applied to a specific case study: the heritage and landscape elements relatedto silver mines in the municipality of Hiendelaencina (Guadalajara, Spain), which most intense phase of productivitydeveloped between 1844 and 1925, entering a long phase of obsolescence along the twentieth century . The aim isto establish criteriato preside procedures and lines of architectural and landscape interventions for future recovery.