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Minas de Riotinto, Cuenca Minera, Huelva

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Monument · Minas de Riotinto, Cuenca Minera, Huelva

One of the largest open-pit mines in Europe, worked by the Rio Tinto Company Limited until its closure in 1992; a monument on a colossal scale to a century and a half of copper mining.

cierre en 1992

Photo: Benjamín Núñez González (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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