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Lead mines of Bellmunt

Bellmunt del Priorat, Priorat, Tarragona

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Lead mines of Bellmunt

Historical milestone · Bellmunt del Priorat, Priorat, Tarragona

The lead mines of Bellmunt del Priorat, already worked in Roman times and industrially since the 19th century, experienced their heyday between 1920 and 1960, when they employed hundreds of miners and attracted heavy immigration that gave rise to its own mining colony; many workers combined the mine with growing vines and olives. The most important, the Eugènia mine, at the foot of the Turó del Sarraí, brought together the foundry, the workshops and the Casa de les Mines of the company Minas del Priorato S.A., and its galena galleries descended more than six hundred metres, within a network exceeding fifty kilometres. After activity ceased in 1972, part of the complex was restored as the Museum of the Mines of Bellmunt del Priorat, inaugurated in 2002.

1850-1972

Photo: Angela Llop (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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