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The return of copper to La Profunda

Cármenes, La Montaña de Riaño, León

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The return of copper to La Profunda

Historical milestone · Cármenes, La Montaña de Riaño, León

Image of Cármenes, not of the place itself.

In 1895 a mining company resumed copper extraction at La Profunda after almost two thousand years of silence, reopening galleries that had already been worked in prehistory and in Roman times.

1895

Photo: mroszewski (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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