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Underground slate mine of Odollo

Castrillo de Cabrera, La Cabrera, León

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Underground slate mine of Odollo

Curiosity · Castrillo de Cabrera, La Cabrera, León

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Odollo is home to the only underground slate working in La Cabrera: while the rest of the comarca's quarries work open-cast, leaving grey spoil heaps on the hillside, here it is extracted in galleries beneath the mountain.

Photo: Rodelar (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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